America’s History: Printed Page 1034
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| REVIEW QUESTIONS | Answer these questions to demonstrate your understanding of the chapter’s main ideas. |
What connections do you see between globalization and the “culture wars” of the 1990s?
In what ways has the United States’s role in the world changed since the end of the Cold War? In what ways has it remained the same?
How did immigration to the United States in the last two decades of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first benefit the American economy but produce political backlash?
THEMATIC UNDERSTANDING Review the events included on the thematic timeline. In what ways does the period between 1992 (Bill Clinton’s election) and 2012 (Barack Obama’s reelection) suggest a postliberal era in American politics? In what ways was the conservative resurgence under Reagan preserved, and in what ways was it not?