Vocabulary
Laws and Bills
Environmental Issues
Civil Rights
Cold War
100

This is information designed to persuade and mislead.

propaganda

100

These laws made the separation of races, or segregation, legal in places such as schools, movie theaters, and buses.  

Jim Crow Laws
100

Urban Sprawl, or the rapid expansion of cities and towns, saw Seattle's tree coverage decline (go down) by this percent over 20 years.

50%

100

This man is known as the face of the Civil Rights movement.  His methods included leading peaceful marches, sit-ins, and boycotts.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
100
This is a nonviolent, intense competition between the United States and the Soviet Union.

The Cold War

200

unjustly harsh, especially against a minority group

oppressive

200

This law prohibited (forbid) any kind of discrimination in public places.

(1964) Civil Rights Act

200

Many fish were found to have high levels of this in their system after industrial waste from mining in Coeur d'Alene made its way into nearby rivers. 

metal

200

A well-known Mexican-American civil rights leader and advocate for nonviolent protest, this man organized a nationwide boycott of California grapes after founding the Farm Workers Union. 

Cesar Chavez

200

This is a rigid economic and political system where the government owns all land, property, and businesses. 

Communism
300
Metals, radio-active materials, and carbon monoxide are examples waste materials, or these, that contaminate air, soil, and water.

pollutants

300

This law eliminated literacy tests for black voters.

(1965) Voting Rights Act

300

Residents that lived near Hanford were poisoned by these two food sources after it was discovered that radioactive and cancer-causing agents were being released into the water and the atmosphere.

fish and milk

300

This U.S. vs. Washington ruling that restored Native Americans rights to fish in off-reservation sites as well as harvest steelhead, is better known by this name, after the judge who presided over the case. 

The Boldt Decision

300

This was a time period where U.S. citizens were worried that members of the Communist party would take over the the government.  Many suspected Communists were fired from their jobs as a result.

The Red Scare

400

This is a form of protest where people refuse to buy or use the products or services of an organization whose practices they dislike.

boycott

400

This bill provided money for former soldiers to attend college and buy houses, sparking a "sawdust empire". 

G.I. Bill

400
These structures built into the side of a dam help fish going upstream to breed.

fish ladders

400

This group is Washington's largest minority, followed closely by Asian and Pacific Islanders. 

Latinos
400

This industry helped fuel the Space Race by producing space vehicles and aircraft that could fire missiles.

the aerospace industry

500

a non-violent form of protest that involves peacefully breaking the law to prove a point.  For example, Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat.

civil disobedience

500

Women fought to add this amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  If passed, it would guarantee that neither men nor women were denied rights based on their gender.

Equal Rights Amendment

500

Environmentalists spiked trees in an effort to save this - defined as the interaction of living things with their physical environment.

ecosystem

500

The first black attorney is Spokane, this man worked to end discrimination and segregation in the city.  He paved the way for black teachers, doctors, and dentists. 

Carl Maxey

500

These two wars followed the Cold War.  One ended in a stalemate; the other saw the loss of 58,000 Americans.

The Korean and Vietnam wars. 

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