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President during the Cuban Missile Crisis
JFK
Guaranteed rights to all ethnic groups
1964 Civil Rights Act
Capital of Illinois
Springfield
Capital of Utah
Salt Lake City
Capital of California
Sacramento
Capital of Wisconsin
Madison
Black minister and civil rights leader
MLK
New Frontier is associated with this President
JFK
Helped end segregation by keeping her bus seat
Rosa Parks
Wants to keep traditional values
conservative
First black major league baseball player
Jackie Robinson
Attempt to return America to a free enterprise system with traditional values
Reagan Revolution
Capital of Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Capital of Idaho
Boise
Capital of Montana
Helena
Capital of Hawaii
Honolulu
Helped bring peace between Egypt and Israel
Believed in stopping Communism before it could attack a country
Ronald Reagan
Developed polio vaccine
Jonas Salk
Group responsible for the 9/11 attacks
al Qaeda
President during Operation Desert Storm
George HW Bush
Legalized abortion in US
Roe vs. Wade
Capital of Kentucky
Frankfort
Capital of New York
Albany
Capital of Texas
Austin
Capital of New Jersey
Trenton
First American to orbit the earth
John Glenn
One of the greatest opera singers of her time
Marian Anderson
First female Supreme Court Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor
Believe the government should provide for people's every need
liberal
Supreme Court Justice who stressed character
Clarence Thomas
Johnson's plan for social reform
Capital of Maine
Augusta
Capital of Nebraska
Lincoln
Capital of Florida
Capital of Vermont
Montpelier
First man to walk on the moon
Neil Armstrong
First black US President
Barack Obama
Strengthened NATO
Dwight Eisenhower
Two events that slowed the space program
explosions of Challenger and Columbia
President who resigned
Richard Nixon
Two countries the US attacked in the War on Terror
Iraq and Afghanistan
Capital of Virginia
Richmond
Capital of Arizona
Phoenix
Capital of Alaska
Juneau
Capital of Oregon
Salem
First American in space
Alan Shepard
President who told Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall
Ronald Reagan
17th US President
Andrew Johnson
system of producing and distributing goods
economy