People
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Legislation
Domestic
Groups
100
Vice President under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (born in 1924), He defeated Saddam Hussein & the Iraq Army when they invaded Kuwait., President when the Berlin Wall came down.
Who is George H.W. Bush
100
Second Strategic Arms Reduction Talks, 1994 between USA and Russia to reduce the active deployment of ICBMs.
What is START 2
100
Required a five day waiting period before buying a handgun
What is the Brady Bill
100
Bombing of Murrah Federal Building. The blast, set off by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, killed 168 people, including 19 children in the building's day-care center.
What is the Oklahoma City Bombing
100
Joined together Catholics and fundamentalist Protestants.
What is the Right-to-Life group
200
Arizona state senator from 1969 to 1974, appointed to the Arizona Court of Appeals in 1979. President Reagan appointed her to the U.S. Supreme Court, making her the first female Justice of the Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor
200
1991, due to economic stagnation, independence push for Soviet Bloc nations + work of Mikhail Gorbachev.
What is the Collapse of the Soviet Union
200
Proposition that decreased property taxes.
What is Proposition 13
200
Supreme court case that supported affirmative action programs that used race as a basis of selecting participants.
What is California vs. Bakke
200
Goal to protect the right to bear arms, mainly Republican organization
What is the National Rifle Assocciation
300
Nominated by Reagan in an attempt to push the Supreme Court in a more conservative direction.
Who is William Rehnquist
300
Led by Saddam Hussein. Ended by operation desert storm (George H Bush) which quickly and effectively defeated Iraq
What is the Invasion of Kuwait
300
An economic philosophy that holds the sharply cutting taxes will increase the incentive people have to work, save, and invest. Greater investments will lead to more jobs, a more productive economy, and more tax revenues for the government.
What are Supply Side economics.
300
The Fourth Amendment does not apply to the search and seizure by United States agents of property owned by a nonresident alien and located in a foreign country. The reference in the Constitution to "the people" means all citizens and legal aliens while in the United States.
What is United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez
300
Jerry Falwell founded; lobbied on behalf of conservative causes.
What is the Moral Majority
400
Republican president known as "The Great Communicator;" ran on a campaign based on the common man and "populist" ideas; former actor.
Who is Ronald Reagan
400
Commonly refers to the post-Cold War era vision in which world affairs would not be dominated by the competition between the two nuclear superpowers; a positive and hopeful vision for the future.
What is the New World Order
400
Gave low rates with small deductions. Individuals gained while businesses suffered, lowered tax rates and reduced loopholes, top rate went from 50% to 28%; now 35%.
What is the Tax Reform Act
400
Two teenage students murder 13 other students and teachers at Columbine High School. It is the deadliest mass murder at a high school in U.S. history, and sparks debates on gun control and bullying.
What is the Columbine Shooting
400
A corporation, union, or interest group can create a pac and help fund a campaign.
What are political action committees
500
An African-American motorist driver who, in 1991 was stopped and then beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers, which caused a deadly riot in LA.
Who is Rodney King
500
A peace agreement between North and Southern Ireland
What are the Northern Ireland Accords
500
Under Clinton administration; overturned in 2010 and stated that the army could not ask if you were LGBT and you could not tell them if you were.
What is the Don't Ask Don't Tell Policy
500
Launched during Space Shuttle Discovery mission.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope
500
Television preachers who used mass media to preach a return to traditional values
What are Televangelists
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