Scandals and Impeachment
The Iran-Contra affair violated this congressional prohibition on military aid to the Nicaraguan rebels.
What is the Boland Amendment?
This 1973 decision used the trimester framework and the right to privacy to strike down most state abortion bans
What is Roe v. Wade?
Beginning in the 1970s, steel and auto plant closures across the Great Lakes region gave this nickname to the industrial Midwest and Northeast.
What is the Rust Belt?
Founded in 1966 with Betty Friedan as its first president, this organization pursued legal and workplace equality for women.
What is NOW (the National Organization for Women)?
Sequence these: Stonewall riots, founding of NOW, first Earth Day, AIM's occupation of Alcatraz.
NOW founded (1966), Stonewall (June 1969), Alcatraz occupation (November 1969), first Earth Day (April 1970)?
This Marine lieutenant colonel on the National Security Council staff ran the diversion scheme and testified in uniform before Congress in 1987.
Who is Oliver North?
The Court's 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision replaced the trimester framework with this standard for evaluating abortion restrictions.
What is the "undue burden" standard?
Sunbelt growth depended heavily on this technology, which made the Southwest and Deep South habitable year-round for industry and retirees.
What is air conditioning?
AIM's 1972 "Trail of Broken Treaties" caravan ended with the occupation of this federal agency's Washington headquarters.
What is the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
Of the Moral Majority's founding, Reagan's election, and the ERA's ratification deadline, this one came last.
What is the ERA deadline (1979, 1980, 1982)?
Reagan's 1987 address on Iran-Contra contained this notable admission about arms-for-hostages: that his heart still told him it wasn't true, but the facts and evidence told him it was.
What is that he had traded arms for hostages?
Reagan's 1981 nomination of this Arizona judge made her the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor
Every census since 1970 has shifted congressional seats and electoral votes from the Northeast and Midwest toward the South and West through this process.
What is reapportionment?
Reies López Tijerina, Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, and José Ángel Gutiérrez were leaders of this 1960s–70s movement for Mexican American rights
What is the Chicano Movement?
Order these economic events: PATCO strike, NAFTA takes effect, Economic Recovery Tax Act, Seattle WTO protests.
What is Economic Recovery Tax Act (1981), PATCO strike (1981), NAFTA (1994), Seattle (1999)?
Kenneth Starr's investigation began as an inquiry into this failed Arkansas real estate venture before expanding to Monica Lewinsky.
What is Whitewater?
Ross Perot's independent campaign won 19 percent of the popular vote in this election — the strongest third-party showing since 1912 — and no electoral votes.
What is the election of 1992?
By the 1980s, more Americans worked in this sector than in manufacturing — a shift economists call deindustrialization.
What is the service sector?
Coined by student activists at Berkeley in 1968, this term deliberately replaced "Oriental" and united diverse groups under one political identity.
What is "Asian American"?
Place these in order: Iran-Contra revealed, Clinton's impeachment by the House, Bush v. Gore, Clinton's Senate acquittal.
What is Iran-Contra revealed (1986), House impeachment (December 1998), Senate acquittal (February 1999), Bush v. Gore (December 2000)?
The Senate acquitted Clinton in February 1999, failing to reach even a simple majority on either article — meaning no president has ever been removed by this margin.
What is two-thirds of the Senate?
The 2000 election turned on this state's 537-vote margin, the narrowest in a decisive state in modern history
What is Florida?
Union membership fell from roughly a third of the private workforce in the 1950s to under 7 percent today, accelerated by Reagan's 1981 destruction of this union.
What is PATCO (the air traffic controllers' union)?
The gay rights movement won a major institutional victory in 1973 when this organization removed homosexuality from its diagnostic manual.
What is the American Psychiatric Association?
Sequence these court decisions: Roe v. Wade, Bakke, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Bush v. Gore.
What is Roe (1973), Bakke (1978), Casey (1992), Bush v. Gore (2000)?