Vocabulary
Impeach
charge (the holder of a public office) with misconduct
Martin Luther King Jr.
African American civil rights activist
Baptist minister who rose to prominence as leader of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott challenging segregated public transportation.
Reagan Era
Recent American history emphasized the conservative "Reagan Revolution" led by President Ronald Reagan in domestic and foreign policy had a lasting impact.
NOW
National Organization for Women
Civil Rights Movement
War against terrorism
Term used to describe the American-led “global war on terrorism”
John F. Kennedy
35th President of the United States
established the Peace Corps; assassinated in Dallas (1917-1963)
Presidential election of 2008
56th quadrennial United States presidential election was held on November 4, 2008.
Democrat Barack Obama, then junior United States Senator from Illinois, defeated Republican John McCain.
SNCC
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Ended segregation in public places
banned employment discrimination
one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement
Reaganomics
The economic policies of the former US president Ronald Reagan, associated especially with the reduction of taxes and the promotion of unrestricted free-market activity.
Cesar Chavez
Labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later the United Farm Workers union, UFW) in 1962.
September 11, 2001
A series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Voting Rights Act of 1965
It eliminated various devices, such as literacy tests, that had traditionally been used to restrict voting by black people.
Pardon
action of forgiving or being forgiven for an error or offense
President Jimmy Carter
politician and philanthropist who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
African American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968
SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Kennedy Administration
Foreign policy of the John F. Kennedy administration from 1961 to 1963 during John F. Kennedy's presidency
Kennedy deployed a new generation of foreign policy experts, dubbed "the best and the brightest"
Several of them were from the foreign policy think tanks.
Containment
The action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits
President Barack Obama
Served as the 44th President of the United States.
He was elected the 44th President of the United States on November 4, 2008
Sworn in on January 20, 2009.
Collapse of the Soviet Union
Series of events between 1989 and 1991 that led to the fall of communist regimes in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
The failure of a communist-led coup d'état against Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union in August 1991 ended the party's control of the military and government.
EPA
Environmental Protection Agency
Brown v. Board of Education
US Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing seperate black and white schools to be unconstitutional.