| A | B |
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| Plessy vs. Ferguson | Supreme Court case that established the "separate but equal" doctrine in 1896 |
| Watergate | Scandalous cover up that tanked Nixon's presidency |
| Betty Friedan | Wrote the Feminine Mystique which challenged society's limits on women |
| Levittown | Assembly line in the suburbs; houses fast and cheap |
| Great Society | LBJ's domestic program to eliminate poverty at home and end discrimination |
| New Frontier | JFK's domestic program to increase aid to education, the elderly, cities, and migrant workers |
| G.I. Bill | Government sponsored veterans benefits package that kick started post-WW II prosperity with college loans and low cost mortgages |
| Civil Rights Act 1964 | Congress acted to outlaw racial and other types of discrimination in public accommodations and employment |
| Voting Rights Act 1965 | Federal government used its authority to end local ruses such as literacy tests that frustrated African-American voting |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | Charismatic civil rights leader who combined the philosophies of Gandhi and Thoreau with Judeo Christian principles |
| Southern Christian Leadership Conference | MLK-led organization that fought racial discrimination and encouraged African-Americans to register to vote |
| Stokely Carmichael | SNCC leader and black power advocate |
| Malcolm X | Nation of Islam adherent and black power advocate who declared that blacks must defend themselves by “any means necessary” |
| Little Rock Nine | Courageous high schoolers who were escorted to class by the 101st Airborne |
| TV Debate, 1960 Election | Under the bright lights JFK glowed and Nixon perspired as Americans watched |
| Brown vs. Board of Education | The Warren Court Justices reversed Plessey, turbo charging the Civil Rights Movement with all deliberate speed |
| Federal Highway Act | Congress paves the way to Ike's plan for an interconnected USA |
| Thurgood Marshall | NAACP's legal titan whose court room strategies led to victories in Brown v. Bd. and other landmark cases. He became the first African-American Supreme Court justice |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | Inspired by Rosa Parks, black Alabamans refused to ride if they had to sit in the back |
| Selma March | 1965 MLK-led bloody "march for freedom" to Alabama's state capital |
| Counterculture | Movement by hippies and other nonconformists to pursue non-traditional lifestyles |
| "Me" Generation | Label affixed to 1970s tendency to self-absorb |
| Beats | Young men and women who rejected 1950s mass culture, reveling in new styles of poetry, literature, and music |
| N.O.W. | Gloria Steinem led this groundbreaking group, demanding an end to USA's male-dominated homes and businesses |
| Equal Rights Amendment | Failed attempt to ban sex discrimination from the Constitution |
| Students for a Democratic Society | Left-wing student group that led anti war demonstrations in the 60s |
| Rachel Carson and "Silent Spring" | Author whose research on the USA’s dependence on pesticides gave birth to the modern environmental movement |
| Emmit Till | Civil rights martyr whose shocking murder in Mississippi gave life to the civil rights movement |
| Black Panthers | Radical paramilitary party that advocated for black separation and sovereignty |
| Stagflation | 1970s economic hangover that combined the worst of inflation and unemployment |
| Reagan Revolution | The election of 1980's focus on supply side policies brought from California to limit the reach of government and reduce taxes on producers |
| Hawks and Doves | Vietnam-era labels for Americans who supported or opposed the war |
| Roe vs. Wade | 1973 Supreme Court decision that expanded the right to privacy, delivering the right to abortion to American women |
| Affluent Society | JK Galbraith's label for USA's post-WW II prosperity |
| Woodstock | A who's who of rock royalty (including The Who) presided over a half million subjects during "3 days of Peace & Music in upstate New York |
| Carter | president during 1976-1980 |
| president Johnson | started war in Vietnam |
| Kennedy | president during Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Eisenhower | represented mood of 1950s |
| Ford | replaced Nixon after his resignation |
| oil embargo | OPEC countries cut oil supplies in 1970s |
| "baby boomers" | children born after WWII |
| Woodward and Bernstein | Washington Post journalists who broke the Watergate Scandal |
| Title IX | originally designed to decrease discrimination in public education |
| "sit in" movement | students non-violent protests in restaurants |
| "Star Wars" | missile defense shield supposed to protect |
| Kent State | shooting of student protesters against Vietnam |
| Gloria Steinem | feminist publisher, changed the public image of women |
| conservative | less interested in change, more keeping with tradition, stability |
| Mississippi Summer 1964 | massive action to get African Americans registered to vote, 3 civil rights volunteers were killed |
| Birmingham | target of civil rights movement in summer of 1963 |
