CHAPTER 30
A TIME OF CHANGE
CH.30.1 – TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION
My Day
List the activities of your day from the time you
get up until you go to bed. Be as specific as
you can but you only have 3 minutes so don’t
go crazy. For example, you don’t have to put
every turn you make and the name of every
street you are on as you drive or take the bus
to school.
My Day
Now list all of the electronic devices you use
during that day.
COMPUTERS
• Development of computers
began after WWII
• Role of Silicon Valley
• New companies such as
Apple (1976) and IBM
(1981)
• By the late 1990s computers
had drastically changed the
work world (and everyday
life)
CELL PHONES
• Major impact in the
1990s
• Affects homes and
businesses (global scale)
• Other telecommunication
changes included changes
in cable TV and phone
services
In 1987
– this
phone
rocked!
INTERNET & THE WORLD WIDE WEB
• Internet was developed
by government/defense
agencies (known as the
internet by the 1980s)
• 1990 – the “web” is
developed by researchers
in Switzerland
– How would your life be
different without the web?
– See foldable on the
“Technological Revolution”
CH.30.2 – THE CLINTON YEARS
• Won elections in 1992
and 1996
• Democrat, Arkansas,
first of “baby boomer”
generation
CLINTON’S FIRST TERM
Cut deficit – but how?
F
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&
Raise or lower them? For
whom?
Education
Gun control
1ST TERM: ECONOMY
• Wanted t deal with the deficit
and lower the interest rates,
which would:
1. Lead to more borrowing by
business and individuals
2. Create more jobs
• In order to raise money and
bring interest rates down he
raised taxes on middle/upper
class and passed new taxes on
gas, heating oil, natural gas
ECONOMY
1st TERM: HEALTH CARE
• Hillary Clinton was put in charge of
reforming healthcare, much of the
burden to pay for it was put on
employers
– Large-scale opposition to the
plan:
a. Too costly
b. Too complicated
c. Too much gov’t control
---- the plan did not pass
• Consequence for Obama?
1st TERM: FAMILIES & EDUCATION
• Family Medical Leave Act
(what did it do?)
• AmeriCorps – students do
community work, earn
money/scholarships
(Chicago)
1st TERM: CRIME & GUN CONTROL
• Clinton supported stronger gun
control laws
– Passed the Brady Bill
• Waiting period
• Dealers have to run
background checks
• Clinton also passed a crime bill
that:
– Provided more funds for prisons
– Banned some assault weapons
– Provided money for crime
prevention programs (“midnight”
basketball leagues)
1st TERM: REPUBLICANS GAIN
CONTROL OF CONGRESS
(pp.1010-1012)
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CLINTON’S SECOND TERM
• 2nd term was a bit of a roller
coaster
- Good economic situation,
surplus, balanced budget
- scandal/impeachment
- Foreign policy – same
questions all presidents face
(get involved?, when?, how?,
why?...)
--- read about his re-election and
victory over Dole (p.1012)
2nd TERM: CHILDREN FIRST
• Signs the Adoption and
Safe Families Act
• Signs the Children’s
Health Insurance
Program
• Passes a $500 child tax
credit
• Cracks down on
cigarette ads aimed at
children (end of Joe
the Camel)
2nd TERM: SCANDAL & IMPEACHMENT
• What does
impeachment mean?
• Whitewater – illegal
loans while governor
of Arkansas?
• Relationship with
Monica Lewinsky
leads to impeachment
hearings
FOREIGN POLICY DECISIONS
Haiti
Bosnia and Kosovo
See graphic organizer
for this section
Middle East
CH.30.3 – IMMIGRATION
• A lot of immigrants coming in
to the U.S. during the late
20th century, changed ethnic
composition of the U.S.
(many more non-Europeans)
• Immigration policies have
changed over time, become
less restrictive and
discriminatory
– Major laws such as 1924, 1965,
1952,1986, 1996
• see “Immigration Laws”
foldable
How did your family get here?
Tan Le’s Story
IMMIGRATION cont.
• Trends of the 1990s – certain
states w/ higher populations of
foreign born residents? (which
ones? Why?)
• More recently immigrants are
coming from Latin America (over
50%, only 10% from Europe in the
1990s– why? impact on U.S.?)
• By 2001 the top 5 countries of
origin for legal immigrants were
Mexico, India, China, the
Philippines, and Vietnam.
• Plans/solutions/ideas for
immigration policy
– Dream Act
– Amnesty
30.4 – AN INTERDEPENDENT WORLD
• Globalism – the idea that
the world is becoming more
interconnected
– the process is globalization
• In the 1990s the economy
started becoming more
global and connected
– Reasons:
1. Computers
2. Internet/web
3. International/Free Trade
(Int’l Community Activity)
GLOBALIZATION & INTERNATIONAL TRADE
(aka Free Trade)
BENEFITS?
1. Helps the American economy
2. American businesses make
money selling goods abroad
3. American consumer benefits
from ability to buy foreign
goods at lower prices than
domestically made good goods
NEGATIVES?
1. Loss of American
manufacturing jobs to foreign
nations due to lower wages
2. Loss of jobs outweighs
“benefits” such as cheap
imported goods
3. Poor work environments and
environmental concerns in
foreign factories
(read Trade w/China on p.1024 as a class)
REGIONAL BLOCS
see graphic organizer
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTALLISM
(p. 1025)
This section is your….