Use the line graph of the US annual average unemployment rate. Between which two consecutive years shown did the rate rise the most?

In October 2008, after a major investment bank failed and credit markets seized up, Congress authorized the Treasury to spend up to $700 billion buying troubled assets and injecting capital into banks. What was this program called?

On December 12, 2000 the Supreme Court halted the manual recount of ballots in Florida, leaving a certified margin of 537 votes in that state and its electoral votes with George W. Bush. What is that case called?

The Affordable Care Act, signed March 23, 2010, barred insurers from refusing customers because of a pre-existing condition. Which other change did that same law make?

In January 2007 a company introduced a touchscreen device that combined a mobile phone, a music player and an internet browser, and it went on sale that June. What was it?

Use the line graph of the US annual average unemployment rate. Which year shown had the highest annual average?

On September 15, 2008 the fourth-largest US investment bank filed the largest bankruptcy in American history, and short-term credit markets froze in the days that followed. Which firm was it?

In a 5-4 decision issued June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment requires every state to license marriages between two people of the same sex and to recognize such marriages performed elsewhere. Name the case.

A federal education law signed in January 2002 required states to test every student in reading and math each year in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, and to report the results by student subgroup. What is it called?

The 2020 census reported the South grew 10.2 percent and the West 9.2 percent over the decade, against 4.1 percent in the Northeast and 3.1 percent in the Midwest. What followed in the House of Representatives?

Use the bar graph of decennial census counts. About how much did the US resident population grow between 2000 and 2020?

In February 2009 Congress passed a $787 billion package of tax cuts, aid to state governments, extended unemployment benefits and spending on roads, schools and energy projects. What was it called?

In NFIB v. Sebelius (2012) the Supreme Court struck down the Affordable Care Act in its entirety.

The Homeland Security Act, signed in November 2002 after the September 11 attacks, created a cabinet department that began operating in March 2003. What did that law do to the federal government?

Pew Research Center reported in 2021 that about half of US adults got news from social media at least sometimes. How did that change what a campaign could do compared with 2000?

Use the line graph of federal debt held by the public. By about how much did it grow between the end of fiscal 2008 and the end of fiscal 2010?

Lenders made home loans to borrowers with weak credit, often at adjustable rates that reset higher after a few years. When house prices stopped rising, many borrowers could neither refinance nor sell for the loan balance. What are such loans called?

In the presidential election of November 4, 2008 Barack Obama became the first African American elected president. How many electoral votes did he receive against John McCain's 173?

Hurricane Katrina came ashore near New Orleans on August 29, 2005, and about 80 percent of the city flooded. What did engineering investigations identify as the immediate cause of most of that flooding?

In June 2013 the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration bill by a vote of 68 to 32, but the bill never became law.

Use the table of median sales prices for new houses sold in the United States. In which year shown was the median price highest?

Activists who organized against the 2008 bank rescue, the 2009 stimulus and the new health care law called themselves the Tea Party. What happened in the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterm elections?

Which law, passed weeks after the September 11, 2001 attacks, expanded federal authority to use roving wiretaps, to obtain business records in national security investigations and to share intelligence between agencies?

A relief law signed on March 27, 2020 sent payments of up to $1,200 per adult, expanded unemployment benefits and created forgivable small business loans through the Paycheck Protection Program. What is it called?

In September 2011 protesters camped in Zuccotti Park in New York's financial district under the slogan "We are the 99 percent", objecting to economic inequality and to the bank rescues. What was this movement called?