CONTEMPORARY AMERICA 1992 2013
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Obama’s early life spent in public housing made him want to change government.
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His work as an organizer taught him the importance of the legal process.
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Obama’s high school education in Hawaii was cut short by legal problems.
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His study at Harvard Law School made him aware of disadvantaged communities.
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Detailed explanation-1: -After graduating, he became a civil rights attorney and an academic, teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Turning to elective politics, he represented the 13th district in the Illinois Senate from 1997 until 2004, when he ran for the U.S. Senate.
Detailed explanation-2: -While in law school he worked as an associate at the law firm Sidley & Austin in 1989, where he met his future wife, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, and where Newton N. Minow was a managing partner. Minow later would introduce Obama to some of Chicago’s top business leaders.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.