1 The 21 st Century United States Politics amp Leaders 2 The Presidency of George W Bush 3 The election depended on Floridas 25 electoral votes Clintons Vice President Al Gore ran for the Democrats against Republican George W Bush for ID: 793997
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Warm-up
List 4 things that Bill Clinton did while he was President.
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Slide2The 21
st-Century United States
Politics & Leaders
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Slide3The Presidency
of George W. Bush
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Slide4The election depended on Florida’s 25 electoral votes.
Clinton’s Vice
President, Al Gore, ran for the Democrats against Republican George W. Bush for
President in the 2000 election.
Although Gore won more popular votes than Bush, the electoral vote margin was too close to call.
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Because the vote in Florida was so close, state law mandated an automatic recount.
The Supreme Court case of Bush v. Gore
ended
the recount. Bush was declared President.
Slide5Slide6He passed a series of tax
cuts to stimulate the economy.
Bush promoted the 2002
No Child Left Behind Act
tying school funding to student success.
Bush pursued an aggressive conservative agenda when he took office.
In 2003, despite criticism, Bush worked with Congress to extend Medicare to cover prescription drugs for seniors
.
The tax cuts and Medicare extensions became controversial because they added to the national debt.
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In
2000, Republicans controlled the White House and Congress
.
Slide7Then something happened that challenged the new President and led to a shift in U.S. foreign policy
.
On September 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked and crashed four airplanes.
Two planes hit the World Trade Center in New York City. More than 3,000 people died as the twin towers collapsed.
September 11, 2001
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Slide8Bush first focused on the terrorists
who were directly responsible for 9/11— al Qaeda & Osama bin Laden
In response, the United States began a “war on terror.”
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Slide9Bush
then worked
to prevent future terrorist attacks with the passage of
the
USA Patriot
Act and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.
Bush then turned his attention to Iraq, where many feared Saddam Hussein was stockpiling Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).
In 2003, U.S. and British forces invaded Iraq.
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Slide10Saddam and many of his supporters were captured, but many Americans were troubled by the war, terrorism, and the budget as they cast their votes in the 2004 election.
Bush won reelection, but the U.S. seemed to be returning to a country of deep political divisions.
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Slide11As the war continued, the
federal budget
deficit grew
larger, causing many people to criticize Bush.
Then, in 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast. Federal response to the disaster was slow. Discontent with the administration grew.
The
2006 midterm elections gave control of the House and the Senate back to the Democrats.
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