| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Migration Chain | Juan Chanax, a Mayan from Guatemala came over worked at Randalls and would set up work for more Guatemalans setting up a sort of chain |
| Changes in the Patterns of Global Immigration | people come to work in service industries, come from all over, not just out neighbors of the south and north |
| Economic Political Causes of Immigration | turmoil abroad, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Vietnam, Central America (Mexico), Phillipines |
| Prosperous Newcomers | Usually Asians, especially Chinese students looking to get a college degree, Indians in computer and software industry, Korean and Filipino in medical fields |
| Blue Collar Asians | San Yi Man, sweatshop workers or restaurants. Many refugees, California and Texas take them in the most. Hour glassà really rich/really poor |
| Asian Downward Mobility | Professionals have a hard time finding jobs, Asian students start failing in US schools |
| The Dominicans of Washington Heights | Northern tip of NYC prominently Dominican |
| East LA | big destination of Mexican migration for jobs in factories, warehouses, railroads, MacArthur Park becomes the new immigration destination |
| Immigration and Control Act of 1986 | increased border security, allowed those b4 the act who were illegal to gain citizenship, employers had to make sure their workers were citizens |
| Banda Music | Mexican Music played in clubs that focused on Mexican nationalism & pride |
| Clinton Agenda | Revive economy, lower federal deficit, welfare and health care reform, reduce violence in immigrant neighborhoods |
| Don’t ask; Don’t tell | Allowed homosexuals to enter army as long as they kept their private life secret/out of the open |
| Whitewater | Real estate venture gone wrong from which the Clintons both received special treatment, one of his critics attempts to discredit the president morally |
| Boris Yeltsin | US depended a lot on this Russian president to bring order out of chaos but he was always sick and had not revived Russia’s economy yet either |
| Americans in Haiti | American presence convinces oppressive military regime to leave, exiled elected president returns by new election |
| Conflicts in Bosnia and Croatia | ('91) Both claim Independence but Serbs say no and raise arms against the minorities, Croats fight them back but Bosnian situation more complex & resistence not well organized, Bosnian situation deteriorates to horrifying "ethnic cleansing" on both sides (rape as a military weapon to eradicate Muslims) |
| Dayton Accords | creates separate Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian nations, ends the fighting without our own blood shed |
| Intervention in Kosovo | Milosevic (Serbian leader) didn’t want to lose Kosovo as well as Croatia and Bosnia but US bombs them as Peacekeepers to end it |
| Middle East Peace Negotiations | Negotiations persued by Clinton but Palestinians and Israeli nations could not come to a peace negotiation in either 1998 or 2000 |
| Thai Crisis Sets Off an Asian Recession | Japanese recession, and Thai’s announcement of closing 56 of 58 banks led to foreign funds being withdrawn and Asian stock exchanges fell |
| Financial Crisis at Home | the Asian financial crisis moved over to us when our backbone investment company (LTCM, Long-Term Capital Management) faced bankruptcy, International Monetary Fund used to give money to those countries in trouble (Russia, Asia, Mexico, Brazil) to avoid a global disaster, Alan Greenspan steps in (Fed Reserve Chair), arranges for LTCM creditors to take over embattled fund |
| Clinton Program | Reduce the deficit but still improve countries infrastructure and spur economy |
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement- ties our economy closer to Mexico and Canada’s |
| Health Care Reform | Spearheaded by Hilary Clinton it doesn’t get passed |
| The Contract with America | Newt Gingrich’s proposed bills after the Republicans took majority in both house and senate in 1994 for the first time since the Ike years |
| Government Shutdown | Clinton threatened to veto the republican budget for the proposed bills and instead of compromising government shutdown, which weakened the republican standing |
| Welfare Reform | goes against long standing liberal welfare policy in that it cuts down the amount of welfare given and places on it restrictions |
| UAW vs. Johnson Controls | Challenged an old case (Muller v Oregon 1908) that forbid laws giving women protection from men based on sex, the issue of fertility health in one job location is brought up and on this basis it is deemed that its up to the woman to decided whether or not to work in a unhealthy environment |
| Contrasting Views on Feminism | Should laws recognize biological difference or uphold equality; fear of putting women into a mans world built by and for men |
| The Lewinsky Affair | Oh come on we all know this one, Clinton was banging Monica Lewinsky (white house intern), He got called into court bout sexual misconduct, lied about it ect. |
| Impeachment | Clinton case tried before Senate w/ William Rehnquist presiding |
| Aquittal | Partison decision, 5 R's joined 45 Dems to aquit Clinton |
| Social Security Crisis | baby boomers around 2010 would soak up a lot of social security, but the govt had been borrowing from it for a while since it was so loaded previously |
| Defeat of Nuclear Test Ban Treaty | would have banned underground testing of nuclear weapons |
| Bush vs. Gore | Gore wins but Bush becomes president because he’s got the hook up in Florida; the court case rules that a manual recount of only 3 counties is unconstitutional |
| The Galactic Network and ARPANET | Galactic network (1962) was the idea of Licklider, basically the internet; ARPANET (1969) was used to send/store information by the Department of Defense to with stand a nuclear attack should one have occurred during Cold war |
| The Personal Computer | Bill Gates helps turn it into a commercial business |
| The WWW | World Wide Web, creation of Tim Berners-Lee applied (http://) allowed freedom of movement, each site w/ own URL (Uniform Resource Locator) |
| E-Commerce | Business, buying & selling on the Web |
| Wage Stagnation | Educated workers’ wages went up, unskilled or low skill workers wages stayed about the same or fell |
| Effects of Prosperity | Gap between rich and poor and racial gap narrow |
| Rodney King and the Los Angeles Riots | Rodney King was a Black man beat by white cops, caught on tape yet the white cops are set free, this causes riots in black community in Los Angeles (April 26, 1992 Sublime song about this) |
| Complexity of the Riots | Not just blacks rioting, also latinos, and not just rioting against whites but against everyone: exposed tension and competition among ethnic groups |
| OJ Simpson Case | Arrested for the Murder of his White ex-wife & her friend, trial turned into trial of LAPD. Aquittal showed the depths of the racial divide w/in LA & US as a whole |
| Inner-City Renewal | areas once seen as slums, rise up; minorities go to college more, own a house, etc |
| Proposition 209 Against Affirmative Action | ('96) California proposition that eliminated racial & gender preferences in hiring & college admissions Black and Latino college admissions drop a lot as a result |
| Persistent Poverty | Though the life of blacks in general were better they still had higher percentages in poverty, incapacitated (“on some kind of paper” in jail/ on parole/probation), and many couldn’t vote because of felony conviction |
| Proposition 187 & Illegal Aliens | California Proposition passed allowing no schooling, health care, welfare benefits to illegal aliens; struck down because it was unconstitutional to deny illegal aliens' children (born here therefore US citizens) proper education |
| English as an Official Language | would not allow any other language to be used for govt documents & end to bilingual education in public schools, passed in several states and counties (California, Florida, Dade County in Miami) |
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