Feminism
This wing of the feminist movement was strongly committed to workplace justice, engaged in theatrical protests, and was not homophobic.
Who are radical feminists?
This became a major problem in Los Angeles beginning in the early 1940s.
What is smog?
A major change in American religious affiliations that began in the 1960s and 1970s.
What is the drop in membership of mainstream Protestant denominations, while evagnelical churches exploded?
An economist's hypothesis that the availability of credit encourages debt-financed risk-taking, in which debt piles on debt in a bubble only waiting to burst when the infusion of cash from income slows.
What is Hyman Minsky's financial instability hypothesis?
This wing of the feminist movement was homophobic, focused on the ERA's passage as part of its "gender first" approach, mostly consisted of middle-class whites, and worked "inside the system."
Who are liberal feminists?
This book, published in 1962, detailed the effects of widely used chemicals on wildlife & humans. (Title + author.)
What is Silent Spring by Rachel Carson?
Issues that mattered to the religious right in the 1970s & 1980s.
What are abortion, AIDS & homosexuality, and tax exemptions for racially segregated, private Christian schools?
Beginning in the late 1960s/early 1970s, there was an attempt to replace the failure of economic growth & real wages to rise with these two things.
This movement rallied against the ERA, fought the legalization of abortion, and denounced feminists as many haters who subverted womanhood.
Who are anti-feminists?
On April 22, 1970, 20 million people across the U.S. turned out for this event.
How the religious right framed the issues it cared about in the 1970s & 1980s.
What is an infringement on religious freedom by denying tax exemptions for private Christian schools who forbade racial mixing; the fetus as a person; and homosexuality as contrary to moral/religious teaching?
The names of a financial instrument and the type of loan it was based on that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis.
What is a collateralized debt obligation (CDO) and a subprime mortgage?
This woman opposed the ERA because she thought it would eliminate protective labor laws for women.
Who is Myra Wolfgang?
Laws that Congress passed, and President Nixon signed, in response to the environmental crisis & the environmental movement.
What are the National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act, and Endangered Species Act?
Things the Reagan administration did to support the goals of Christian conservatives.
What are implementing a process to screen potential judges for their views on issues including abortion, appointing conservative federal judges, and supporting state & local anti-abortion laws in court?
The name of the Federal Reserve chair who cut interest rates to an all-time low to fuel a housing boom, which worked, and thereby contributed to the 2008 financial crisis.
Who is Alan Greenspan?
This woman opposed the ERA because she thought women would lose the protection of men, be forced to use disgusting men's bathrooms, and be drafted.
Who is Phyllis Schlafly?
The federal entity that President Nixon established by Executive Order, also in response to the environmental crisis & the environmental movement.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
The outcomes of court cases that Christian conservatives cared about.
What are the decisions of: Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health (1983), which the Reagan administration took the losing side on, striking down a city ordinance that had required doctors to inform women's hat the fetus "is a human life from the moment of conception" and set a 24-hour waiting period from women who planned to have an abortion; Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1986), which the Reagan administration also took the losing side on, striking down a Pennyslvania law that required doctors to inform women that abortion was risky, to file detailed reports, and to favor live births; and Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), which found that the right to privacy did not extend to homosexuality.
Two laws, the former repealing the latter's separation of investment banking from commercial banking, thereby contributing to the 2008 financial crisis.
What are the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 and the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933?