After the September 11 attacks, what did Congress's 'USA Patriot Act' allow the Department of Justice to do?
Explanation
This question tests knowledge of the key provisions of the USA Patriot Act as described by the author, highlighting the expansion of government power in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
Other questions
According to Richard Hofstadter's 'The American Political Tradition' as cited in Chapter 21, what has historically bounded the vision of the major political parties in the United States?
What was the percentage of eligible voters who voted in the 1976 presidential election, as mentioned in Chapter 21?
Who did Jimmy Carter appoint as his National Security Adviser, a figure described as a 'traditional cold war intellectual'?
What was Carter's response when asked about the lack of U.S. aid to Vietnam for reconstruction after the devastating war?
In the Reagan-Bush years, what percentage of wealth in the United States was owned by the top 1 percent of the population?
Which group of striking workers did the Reagan administration dismiss 'en masse' as one of its first acts?
What was the core reason cited in the chapter for U.S. military interventions in countries like Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Chile?
What was the Iran-contra affair?
In the 1989 invasion of Panama, what was the stated justification given by the U.S. government?
What did a 1992 public opinion survey for the National Press Club show regarding American voters' desire for defense spending?
According to the chapter, what was a primary motivation for the Bush administration to launch the Gulf War in 1991?
How did the after-tax income of the richest 1 percent change in the decade ending in 1990?
What was the 'Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act' of 1996, passed under Clinton, used for?
The chapter cites a New York Times/CBS News poll regarding 'welfare' versus 'assistance to the poor.' What did this poll reveal?
What was the 'Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996' designed to do?
According to the chapter, why did the Reagan administration secretly fund the contras in Nicaragua despite a congressional ban?
What was the result of the tax bills passed from 1978 to 1990 on the net worth of the 'Forbes 400' richest people in the country?
In the 1990s, what did the Democratic Party become, according to Republican analyst Kevin Phillips?
What was the primary justification given for the U.S. invasion of Grenada in 1983?
What happened to the Social Security tax in the decades leading up to the 1990s, according to the chapter?
In 1989, what did a Harris/Harvard School of Public Health poll show about American preferences for a health system?
What was the official U.S. reason for sending military aid to the government of El Salvador during the Carter and Reagan years?
What happened to the mortality rate for black babies in Detroit, Washington, and Baltimore by the end of the 1980s?
The chapter mentions a major scandal involving the deregulation of savings and loan banks. When did this deregulation begin?
What was Bill Clinton's position on the bombing of Iraq in 1999 to enforce 'no-fly zones'?
What was the 'bottom-up review' of the military budget conducted by Clinton's Secretary of Defense, Les Aspin, in 1993?
What was the United States' position on the international agreement to abolish land mines?
In the 1992 presidential election, what percentage of the vote did the third-party candidate, Ross Perot, receive?
What was the significance of the FBI attack on the religious group in Waco, Texas, in April 1993?
By 1998, what portion of working people in the United States had jobs paying at or below the federal poverty level, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics?
What was the life expectancy of a black man in Harlem as cited in a United Nations report during the Clinton era?
How did Madeleine Albright respond on the TV program 60 Minutes when asked if the price of sanctions against Iraq, which had led to the deaths of a half million children, was 'worth it'?
During the Clinton presidency, what percentage of all weapons sold worldwide were sold by the United States, according to a New York Times report?
What was the NATO proposal presented to Yugoslavia at Rambouillet in 1999 that the Serbian National Assembly rejected?
According to a Carnegie Endowment study cited in the chapter, how much more likely was the child of a lawyer to end up in the top 10 percent of American incomes compared to the child of a janitor with the same intelligence test scores?
What was the 'Million Man March' of 1995 described as in the chapter?
According to the chapter, why was the candidacy of Ralph Nader in the 2000 election significant?
In the 2000 presidential election dispute, what was the Supreme Court's stated reason for prohibiting any more counting of ballots in Florida?
What was the 'permanent adversarial culture' mentioned at the beginning of Chapter 22?
The Plowshares Eight, mentioned in Chapter 22, were protesting against what?
What was the result of the largest political demonstration in U.S. history on June 12, 1982, in New York's Central Park?
What did the Winooski Forty-four do in 1984 to protest U.S. policy in Central America?
In the 1999 protests in Seattle against the World Trade Organization, which of the following alliances was noted as remarkable in the chapter?
What was the stated goal of the 'living wage' campaign on college campuses described in Chapter 24?
According to the chapter, by the end of the Clinton administration, the United States had a higher rate of what than any other country in the world, with the possible exception of China?
In Chapter 21, former ambassador George Kennan is quoted as saying what about the effect of U.S. cold war policies on the Soviet Union?
How much did President Clinton's first budget propose to change military spending?
Why did President Bush decide to abandon sanctions and go to war against Iraq in 1991, according to historian Jon Wiener?
What was the 'living wage' campaign that gained momentum on college campuses in the late 1990s and early 2000s?