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Fema
The federal agency who came under scathing criticism for its apparent failure respond quickly or efficiently to hurricane Katrina
Abu ghraid
The bush administration public image was tarnished by a scandal involving mistreatment of prisoner of war at this information prison
Osama bin Laden
The wealthy Muslim leader and mastermind of al-qaeda
John Kerry
The political candidate who tried to defend his position on the Iraq war by claiming I actually voted for the convicted and executed him
Rosa parks
The first lady of the civil rights movement
National security
Shaped the 2004 presidential election
Evangelical Christian
Bush's administration included a fairly large representation of this conservative group
Enron
The biggest corporate bankruptcy in America history occurred in 2001 and involved this corporation
Marriage penalty
Bush's tax cut abolished this important discriminatory future
Compasionets consortium
Bush's policies of working with religious organizations to seek solutions to urban problems
Patriots act
The act of Congress with made it easier for the u.s government to fight internal terrorist threats
Saddam hussein
The Iraqi dictator the u.s troops removed from power and the Iraqi people tried for war crimes convicted and executed him
The first war of the 21st century
Whqt president Bush called war on terror
Florida
The president electron of 2000 hung on the vote of this state
Bush
Won the very close and contested presidential election of 2000
John G . Roberts jr.
Replaced Sandra day o conner on the supreme Court and then become chief justice when William rehnquist died
Al gore
Contested but still lost the presidential election of 2000
Condoleezza rice
Christian advisor who was bush's national security advisor and later his secretary of state
republican who became an independent giving the democratic control of the Senate
James jefrords
John ashcroft
Attorney general when the terrorists attached american in 2001
Rosa parks
Civil rights pioneer who died in 2005
Tom ridge
First secretary of the department of Homeland Security
Alberto Gonzalez
First Hispanic attorney general
John Kerry
Lost presidential election of 2004
ExxonMobil Wal-Mart
The two largest companies in America in 2006
The one day month and year more then any other defined the presidency of George w. Bush
September 11th 2001
The two ethnic groups that make up today's immigrants into the u.s
Hispanic Asians
Tail ban
The radical Muslim government in Afghanistan thay the u.s overthrew in the initial invasion of the country
Office of home land department
The new cabinet - level department that was a result of the terrorists attacks on the United States
Casinos
After Katrina the rebuilding of ? Happened much more quickly then the rebuilding of homes
Electronic of 2000
Showed that Americans were more divided then they had been since the end of the Vietnam War
Flooding
Most of the death damage caused by hurricane Katrina was the result of ?
Vermont republican James jeffrods switched parties giving the ? Firm control of the Senate in 2001
Democratic
The first hurricane to strike southwest Florida in nearly forty years
Hurricane Charley
Alqueda
Tended to attract education and wealthy Arab Muslim to its cause
Saportead
Al gore and John Kerry both ?abortion but George w. Bush opposed it
2000
By ? The percentage of blacks and the percentage of Hispanics of the u.s population numbered the same
Sluggish
Bush inherited a ? economy from Clinton when he was inaugurated in 2001
Decline
Membership in liberal protestant churches began to ? In 2000
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