USA HISTORY

CONTEMPORARY AMERICA (1992 2013)

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

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Where was Obama a senator?

(A) Idaho

(B) Georgia

(C) ** Illinois

(D) road cancer

(E) Ohio

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African-American president of the United States. Obama previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004, and previously worked as a civil rights lawyer before entering politics.

Concept note-2: -Barack Obama served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2005, when he was elected to the United States Senate.

Concept note-3: -The Illinois Senate career of Barack Obama began in 1997 after his first election in 1996 to a two-year term in the Illinois Senate representing Illinois’ 13th Legislative District in Chicago. He was re-elected in 1998 to a four-year term and re-elected again in 2002 to another four-year term.

Concept note-4: -Elected U.S. Senator On March 16, 2004, State Senator Barack Obama won the Democratic primary, and businessman Jack Ryan won the Republican primary.

Concept note-5: -After four years living in New York, Obama moved to Chicago to work as a community organizer.