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Short Quiz / Exit Slip:
The Presidency of Bill Clinton: Technological Advancement in the 1990s & Clinton’s Impeachment
Part A: Multiple Choice: Instructions: Choose the option that answers the question.
1. Which company created some of the first practical computers in the USA?
a. Microsoft
b. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company
c. Apple
d. The International Business Machines corporation
2. Which two men helped transform computers into mass produced machines that the average
American could use?
a. Orville and Wilbur Wright
b. Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla
c. Samuel Morse and Eli Whitney
d. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs
3. What company began selling books online in 1994 and became one of the largest online markets
by the 21st Century?
a. Barnes and Noble
b. Microsoft
c. Amazon
d. Texas Instruments
4. What option below describes one impact that Bill Clinton had on the internet revolution that
occurred in the 1990s?
a. Clinton hired Bill Gates to serve as the CEO of Microsoft.
b. Clinton forced Apple to be broken up as a company, since it had become a monopoly.
c. Clinton strongly encouraged schools to become connected to the internet.
d. All of the Above.
5. What option below describes the Whitewater Scandal?
a. Bill Clinton sent men to break into the Watergate Complex to steal information on his rivals.
b. Bill Clinton was accused of accepting money in a corrupt manner from a real-estate business.
c. Bill Clinton was accused of bribing Janet Reno to stop his impeachment.
d. Bill Clinton was accused of not providing enough military support in Somalia.
6. Why did Kenneth Starr assert that President Clinton should be impeached?
a. Clinton was linked to accepting bribes and cash in the Whitewater Scandal.
b. Clinton had lied under oath about an extramarital affair.
c. Clinton had committed war crimes in the Battle of Mogadishu.
d. Clinton had fired Secretary of War Edwin Stanton.
Part B: Short Answer: Instructions: In at least one paragraph, answer the questions below.
1. How did technology change in the 1990s in the USA? What impact did this technological change
have on American Society?
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Short Quiz / Exit Slip:
The Presidency of Bill Clinton: Technological Advancement in the 1990s & Clinton’s Impeachment
Part A: Multiple Choice: Instructions: Choose the option that answers the question.
1. Which company created some of the first practical computers in the USA?
a. Microsoft
b. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company
c. Apple
d. The International Business Machines corporation
2. Which two men helped transform computers into mass produced machines that the average
American could use?
a. Orville and Wilbur Wright
b. Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla
c. Samuel Morse and Eli Whitney
d. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs
3. What company began selling books online in 1994 and became one of the largest online markets
by the 21st Century?
a. Barnes and Noble
b. Microsoft
c. Amazon
d. Texas Instruments
4. What option below describes one impact that Bill Clinton had on the internet revolution that
occurred in the 1990s?
a. Clinton hired Bill Gates to serve as the CEO of Microsoft.
b. Clinton forced Apple to be broken up as a company, since it had become a monopoly.
c. Clinton strongly encouraged schools to become connected to the internet.
d. All of the Above.
5. What option below describes the Whitewater Scandal?
a. Bill Clinton sent men to break into the Watergate Complex to steal information on his rivals.
b. Bill Clinton was accused of accepting money in a corrupt manner from a real-estate business.
c. Bill Clinton was accused of bribing Janet Reno to stop his impeachment.
d. Bill Clinton was accused of not providing enough military support in Somalia.
6. Why did Kenneth Starr assert that President Clinton should be impeached?
a. Clinton was linked to accepting bribes and cash in the Whitewater Scandal.
b. Clinton had lied under oath about an extramarital affair.
c. Clinton had committed war crimes in the Battle of Mogadishu.
d. Clinton had fired Secretary of War Edwin Stanton.
Part B: Short Answer: Instructions: In at least one paragraph, answer the questions below.
1. How did technology change in the 1990s in the USA? What impact did this technological change
have on American Society?
Student answers to this may vary. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates had pioneered efforts for the average
American to own a personal computer by the 1990s. The connection of these computers meant, for the
first time, the average American had access to the World Wide Web. The internet revolutionized
businesses and linked various regions of the world together. New businesses, such as Amazon, began
selling online and this radically increased trade. In America, Satellites, video games, medical
improvements, increased communication technologies, and other changes originated from the
technological change of the 1990s.
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