Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. After recovering from the recession of 1990-1991, the United States economy continued to expand for the rest of the decade; the boom became the longest uninterrupted period of economic expansion in American history.
2. By 2000, more than 400,000 Americans had died of HIV/AIDS.
3. In 1996, President Clinton signed a Republican bill into law, abolishing the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program and replacing it with a system of grants of money to states, with strict limits on how long recipients could receive payments.
4. In his January 1996 State of the Union address, President Bill Clinton announced that "the era of big government is over," and, in effect, turned his back on the tradition of Democratic Party liberalism and embraced the antigovernment outlook associated with Republicans since the days of Barry Goldwater.
5. In the 2000 election, George W. Bush won the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote to Al Gore.
1. True
2. True
3. True
4. True
5. False
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