Civil Rights
Supreme Court case that desegregated public schools
Brown v. Board of Education
Helped the US come out of the Great Depression
WWII
John F. Kennedy's Vice President
Lyndon B. Johnson
3 countries in NAFTA
U.S., Mexico, and Canada
First Satellite in Space
Sputnik
First African American female to be elected to Texas Legislature
Barbara Jordan
caused Texans to vote mostly Republican
Tidelands Controversy
Country that the U.S. was in a Cold War with
Soviet Union
large corporations whose only business is farming
Agribusiness
NASA is an acronym for this
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
founded Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
James L. Farmer
Howard Hughes invented this for the petrochemical (oil) industry
Rotary Drill Bit
the government controls and owns all aspects of the country's economy
Communism
profitable Mexican factories
Maquiladoras
U.S. is the first country to do this
Landing on the moon
advocated for Hispanic Veterans
Hector P. Garcia
Organization created to gain control over the oil industry
OPEC
Free Enterprise
NAFTA stands for this
North American Free Trade Agreement
First man to walk on the moon
Neil Armstrong
organization to help Hispanic Americans gain Civil Rights
LULAC
US President who agreed Texas had rights to the Tidelands
Dwight D. Eisenhower
US Sent soldiers into this War to stop the spread of communism
Vietnam War
This agreement took away rules that blocked trade between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada
NAFTA
Johnson Space Center is located in this Texas city
Houston