Urban Renewal & Population Changes
This period after WWII saw a huge increase in births in America.
What is the Baby Boom?
This SPACE mission landed the first humans on the moon in 1969.
What is Apollo 11 Moon Landing?
This scandal forced President Nixon to resign in 1974.
What is Watergate?
This music genre became a major cultural force in the late 20th century.
What is hip hop?
This law helped reduce air pollution in the United States.
What is the Clean Air Act?
This Virginia Black neighborhood in Charlottesville was destroyed during urban renewal.
What is Vinegar Hill?
This astronaut became the first person to walk on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
This law increased government surveillance after 9/11.
What is the Patriot Act?
This type of television brought Americans 24-hour news coverage.
What is cable television?
This law focused on protecting rivers, lakes, and drinking water.
What is the Clean Water Act?
This Richmond neighborhood was divided by highway construction during urban renewal.
What is Jackson Ward?
The rivalry between the United States and Soviet Union to explore space was called this.
What is the Space Race?
terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon?
What is September 11, 2001.
The internet changed how Americans do these three things.
What are communicate, learn, and work?
Urban renewal often displaced these communities the most.
What are Black and low-income communities?
After World War II, many families moved from cities to these areas.
What are suburbs?
This California region became known as the center of technology innovation.
What is Silicon Valley?
Passengers on this flight fought back against hijackers before crashing in
Pennsylvania.
Social media changed political campaigns, activism, and these.
What are cultural trends?
Urban renewal caused this long-term effect by destroying homes and businesses passed through families.
What is loss of generational wealth?
The military changed to this type of force after the draft ended in 1973.
What is an all-volunteer military?
Email, smartphones, and social media are all part of this technological era.
What is the Information Age?
This conflict began after 9/11 and included wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
What is the War on Terror?
The U.S. economy shifted away from manufacturing toward these two industries.
What are service and technology industries?
This issue describes unequal access to technology and the internet.
What is the digital low access