Socials
What genre, made popular by artists like the Bee Gees and Donna Summer, dominated the dance floors in the 1970s?
Disco
What was the decade of 1970 called after all the economic problems happened?
The Great Inflation
What Supreme Court case legalized abortion in 1973?
Roe v. Wade.
This form of entertainment, which has now become a billion-dollar industry, began taking off in the 1970s?
video games
What cause was the event that had the most effect on the cost of oil in the US?
Arab embargo
What feminist group held speakouts for abortion rights?
The Redstockings.
What invention laid the groundwork for modern computing and became essential to electronics?
Microprocessor
What was the system was the one that people stopped working in 1971?
Bretton system
What 1974 case ruled that schools must support non-English speaking students?
Lau v. Nichols.
What infamous event occurred at a baseball stadium that symbolized the backlash against disco?
Disco Demolition Night
What was the system was the one that people stopped working in 1973 after just two years of being used?
Smithsonian system
What major political scandal led to President Nixon’s resignation?
The Watergate scandal.
Educational reforms in the 1970s increased access to schools for these three marginalized groups. What are those three marginalized groups?
African Americans, Immigrants, and the disabled.
Bad data left who handicapped, leading them to underestimate the harm inflation was doing to the US?
Policymakers
What is the Chicano Movement?
This 1970s movement split when women began demanding both ethnic equality and gender justice.