Civil Rights
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
Government agency created to protect the environment?
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
Removed trade barriers between Mexico, the US and Canada.
What is NAFTA?
An official ban on trade to a country.
What is embargo?
the belief that the US should span from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is manifest destiny?
Civil Rights leader influenced by Islam.
Who is Malcolm X?
Event where the office building that housed the Democratic National Committee headquarters was broken into by Republican supporters of President Nixon before the 1972 presidential election
What is Watergate?
First African American president of the US elected in 2008.
Who is Barack Obama?
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
the 1972 case where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a state law requiring all children to attend school until the age of sixteen violated the Amish's free exercise of religion as guaranteed by the First Amendment
What is Wisconsin v. Yoder?
What is the Feminine Mystique?
What is OPEC?
Cause of flooding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
What are failed levees?
a disconnect between what is being told to the people and what they actually believe
the authorization by Congress that allowed President Johnson to escalate the war in Vietnam without a formal declaration of war
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
Banned discrimination based on gender in all educational institutions.
What is Title IX?
Name of Nixon's foreign policy to relax Cold War tension with Soviet Union and China through diplomacy.
What is detente?
What country invaded Kuwait, causing Operation Desert Storm?
What is Iraq?
The government keeps their "hands off" of the economy.
What is laissez faire?
the area in Wyoming where the Secretary of the Interior leased Navy petroleum reserves to private oil companies at low rates, without any competitive bidding
Who is Cesar Chavez?
1st Female Supreme Court Justice appointed by Reagan.
Who is Sandra Day O'Conner?
Passed to prevent further acts of terrorism.
What is the Patriot Act?
the practice or advocacy of controlled selective breeding of human populations
What is eugenics?
Constructed to transport the American Navy fleet from the Pacific to the Caribbean and Atlantic efficiently.
What is the Panama Canal?