Unit 9: Period 9: 1980–Present
US History · Unit 9 · Paper 1

Period 9: 1980–Present unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 16 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 9, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 33 min 30 points0/17 attempted
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Welfare reform (1996)

2

End of the Cold War

3

Iran-Contra affair

4

Contract with America

5

Immigration and Nationality Act (1965)

6

Affordable Care Act (2010)

7

NAFTA (1994)

8

USA PATRIOT Act

9

September 11, 2001

10

Shelby County v. Holder (2013)

11

Bush v. Gore (2000)

12

Great Recession (2007–09)

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Reaganomics

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Globalization debate

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Reagan Doctrine

3 pts

Free response

6 pts

This course has no free-response prompt tagged to this unit, so one from elsewhere in the course is used. It is still worth writing — the skill transfers.

Evaluate the extent to which the American Revolution changed American society in the period from 1775 to 1800.