Sarah Reynolds, Gina Vite, Alexio Cabanero

U. S. History, Period 1
Mr. Buescher
8 June 2017
Social Changes

Music

Columbine High School Shooting

Oklahoma City Bombing

The Internet
Music ● Pop music was very
popular as well.
Many female artist
● Seattle Grunge Commonly were killing it
known as Grunge became showing femininity
and girl power.
a popular genre that was
● Gangsta Rap was
listen by teens and young
another general that
adults
was popular with the
● The grunge sound kids even though it
consisted of punk rock was highly
with heavy metal criticized.
background.
● The grunge anthem was
“Smells like Teen Spirit”
by Nirvana.
Columbine High
School Massacre
● Littleton, Colorado in April
20, 1999.
● Eric Harris and Dylan
Klebold killed 13 students, 1
teacher, while 24 were
wounded and then took their
own lives.
● The teens were bullied and
were outcast.
Oklahoma City Bombing
● Alfred P. Murrah Federal
Building was bombed on
April 19, 1995 by Timothy
McVeigh and Terry Nichols .
● 168 people died and 500 were
injured
● The men used trucks filled
with explosives.
● The World Wide Web was
introduced in ‘91, following
web browsing.
● Unlimited information was
open to all.
● People were connected
everywhere.
● Many people viewed the
internet as a infrastructure
of the 21st century
Politics in the 1990s
➔ Bill Clinton
Presidency
➔ Welfare Reform
➔ DADT
➔ Tax Increase
Clinton Presidency
➔ November 3, 1992,
Clinton was elected
president over Bush.
➔ Was impeached because of
his relations with a 21
year old woman.
Welfare Reform (PRWORA)
➔ Personal
Responsibility and
Work Opportunity
Act
➔ Passed a welfare
reform providing
health needy
families(TANF)and
aid to families
with dependant
children (AFDC)
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Policy
➔ DADT
➔ Prohibited homosexuals
from talking about their
sexuality while they
were in the military.
➔ Prohibited officers from
asking about each
other’s sexualities.
➔ Lasted from February 28,
1994 - September30, 2011
Tax Increase
➔ Though Clinton promised a ➔ Signed for the huge tax
good tax cut, taxes rose increase on August 10, 1993
$280 billion in just five ➔ Blamed Republicans for the
high taxes even though none of
years.
them voted for it.
➔ Largest tax increase ever.
➔ Lied to the American
people.
Important People in the 1990s

❖ Eileen Collins
❖ Nelson Mandela
❖ Freddie Mercury
❖ Princess Diana
 Eileen Collins
❖ First woman to pilot a
❖ Born: November 19,
1956
space shuttle on
February 2, 1995.
❖ She made history again
in 1999 when she
earned the title of the
first female shuttle
commander.
Nelson Mandela
❖ Was a civil rights ❖ Born: July 18, 1918
activist from South ❖ Died: December 5,
Africa. 2013
❖ First black South
African President.
Freddie Mercury
❖ Wasn’t a huge
part of the 90s
since he died in
1991.
Born: September 5, 1946
❖ Was still one of
the greatest Died: November 24, 1991
performers to
ever walk the
earth and his
death was
extremely (still more important than any of the
other people)
heartbreaking.
 Princess Diana
❖ Diana, Princess of Wales.
❖ Received the title
“Princess” when she
married Prince Charles, of
Wales.
❖ Born: July 1, 1961
❖ Known as “The People’s
(Sandringham, UK)
Princess” because she was
such a friendly, open, and
❖ Died: August 31, 1997
positive person and loved (Paris, Fr)
the people of her country.
Historical
Events
Hurricane
Andrew (1992)
● Formed on August 16th -
28th, 1992.
● Mainly affected the
Bahamas, Florida and
Louisiana
● Responsible for 26 deaths,
40 indirectly
● 250,000 people were made
homeless
● Florida itself costed $25
billion.
● This led to changes to
Florida building/housing
regulation
World Trade
Center
Bombing - 1993
● At 12:18 pm EST, a
bomb explodes on the
second subterranean
level of Vista Hotel's
public parking garage,
below the 2 World
Trade Center building.
● Ramzi Yousef held
responsible
● He said he did it to
avenge the sufferings
Palestinian people had
endured at the hands of
US-aided Israel.
1995 Chicago heat
wave
● Occurred on July 13th, with a
high of 106°F, but with humidity,
felt like 120°F
● Daytime temperature never went
below mid 90s. Nighttime was
around mid 80s.
● Set a record high of A/C energy
usage, causing outages.
● Water pressure in several
communities were lost due to an
estimate 3,000 open hydrants.
● Led to 739 heat related deaths in
a period of 5 days
● Most of these deaths were by the
elderly
N.A.F.T.A -
1993
● Took 3 U.S Presidents to get
it off the ground. (George W.
Bush was the one who came
up with it.)
● Signed by POTUS Bill
Clinton on Dec 8, 1993. Took
effect on Jan 1st, 1994.
● An agreement to expand trade
between Canada, U.S and
Mexico
● Was a way to be more
competitive in the global
marketplace
Science and
Technology
Windows 95 ● Released on August
24, 1995
● Added more features
● Successor of the 3.11
version released in
1991
● Windows 98 released
in 98
 Intel’s Pentium Processors
● Intel released Pentium, a brand of
processors on March 22, 1993
● Smart/powerful enough to run the
World Wide Web.
● Processors have been in construction
since 1823 when Baron Jons Jackob
cenooooooo
Berzelius discovered silicon, which is
what processors are made from.
● Intel made the first best processor and
began selling them in 1991.
● (Processing power of Pentium
processors in ascending order)
Bluetooth 1.0 - 1999
● An introduction to Mobile wireless
file sharing
● File Sharing without connecting
cables
● Used small radio waves instead of
wires.
● Wasn’t the fastest compared to cable
transfers, but it was a major step
towards mobile data sharing.
○ Ex: Air Drop
 Biology and
Medicine
● The Human Genome Project is
founded in 1990
● International scientific research
project
● The first gene linked to Alzheimer’s
disease is discovered in 1993
● On that same year the first
Alzheimer’s drug was approved by the
FDA, named Cognex
● The Western Hemisphere is Declared
free of Polio after 3 years and 2
months
Electric Vehicles Clean Air Act
● U.S Federal law to control pollution at a
national level
● The objective was to protect human
health and the environment from the
effects of air pollution
● 1998 Los Angeles Auto Show
● California Air Resources Board
(CARB)- released a mandate that
allowed the production and sale of
zero-emissions vehicles (ZEV) a
GM Motors 1999 EV1 requirement for the seven major
automakers selling cars in the United
States to continue to market their
vehicles in California.
 Hubble Space
Telescope
● Launched April 1990
● Major step toward the
study of extraterrestrial
elements
● Helped scientists and
astronauts to study our
universe
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