University of Phoenix Material

End of the 20th Century Matrix

Choose ten items from the following list and identify their significance during the 1990s and beyond:

|Earned Income Tax Credit |Economic prosperity under Clinton |
|E-mail |Creating a budget surplus |
|NAFTA |The Internet and the World Wide Web |
|Telecommunications |The Brady Bill |
|Somalia and Rwanda |Apple |
|Internet marketing |Digital divide |
|Kosovo |Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell |
|Cell phones |Microsoft |

|Event |Significance |
|Telecommunications |“Telecommunications Act of 1996 is a milestone in the history of telecommunications in the United States. Coming 12 years after the breakup of AT&T, the Act attempts to move all telecommunications markets toward competition. The Act