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Cause-Effect: Issues Facing Modern America

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The Warren CourtMajor decisions regarding equal apportionment, individual rights, the rights of criminal suspects, and civil rights
The Baker (1962), Wesberry (1964), and Reynolds (1964) decisionsEstablished the principle of equal apportionment and "one-man, one-vote"
The Mapp (1961), Gideon (1963), Miranda (1966), and Escobedo (1964) casesClarified the rights of criminal suspects
Title IXEqual opportunities for women in sports
Roe v. Wade (1973)Upheld a woman's right to have an abortion based on the right to privacy
White flightDe facto segregation in urban areas making issues such as busing polarizing
Affirmative action proposalsAttempts to redress past wrongs against groups historically discriminated against despite claims form whites of "reverse discrimination"
The Bakke Case (1978)The Court ruled strict racial quotas were unconstitutional but race could be a factor in the admissions process
Los Angeles police officers acquitted of police brutality of an African-American motoristThe Rodney King Riots
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965Ended the nation's immigration quotas of the 1920s and thereafter Asian and Latin American immigrants arrived in larger numbers than Europeans
The success and empowerment of the Civil Rights Movement for African-AmericansInspired other minority groups to push for their rights and cultural distinctiveness
The Red Power of the American Indian Movement (AIM)Standoff between Native American activists and federal authorities at Wounded Knee and Alcatraz
The Stonewall RiotThe launching of the gay liberation movement
The aging Baby Boomer generationStresses on health care and Social Security systems
Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonEnd of the use of DDT as a pesticide
Three-Mile IslandMajor set back for the use of nuclear power
Increased public awareness of the environmentRegulations making the environment a cleaner place
The service-based economy and outsourcingDecline in organized labor for the past 1/2 century
11-SepThe War on Terror and the Patriot Act


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