USA HISTORY

CONTEMPORARY AMERICA (1992 2013)

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

[SOURCES]
What happened first?

(A) Obama became part of the government.

(B) Obama became a lawyer.

(C) ** Obama moved to Indonesia.

(D) Obama moved to Chicago.

(E) None

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -In 1967, Obama and his mother moved to Jakarta to rejoin his stepfather. The family initially lived in a newly built neighborhood in the Menteng Dalam administrative village of the Tebet subdistrict in South Jakarta for two and a half years, while Soetoro worked on a topographic survey for the Indonesian government.

Concept note-2: -Obama signed many landmark bills into law during his first two years in office. The main reforms include: the Affordable Care Act, sometimes referred to as “the ACA” or “Obamacare", the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010.

Concept note-3: -Obama lived with his mother and half-sister, Maya Soetoro, in Hawaii for three years from 1972 to 1975 while his mother was a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Hawaii.

Concept note-4: -When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, he became the first African American to hold the office.

Concept note-5: -Three visits to Canada, China and Poland. Four visits to Afghanistan, Japan, and South Korea. Five visits to Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom. Six visits to France and Germany.