| A | B |
|---|
| Billy Graham | Influential evangelical Christian minister and adviser to several presidents during the later 20th Century |
| Barry Goldwater | 1964 Republican candidate for President, and first candidate of the Conservative Movement. |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | First female Supreme Court Justice |
| Hillary Clinton | Former First Lady; Senator from New York; Former Secretary of State in Barack Obama's administration |
| Chicano Mural Movement | out-growth of Chicano civil rights movement; developed into full artistic movement in the paintings of large murals on the walls of buildings, etc. |
| Dolores Huerta | Civil Rights activist who worked with Cesar Chavez to improve conditions for Hispanic farm workers in California |
| Sonia Sotomayor | First Hispanic Woman on the Supreme Court |
| Oprah Winfrey | Successful African American female businesswoman and found of a media empire |
| "In God We Trust" | America's motto added to our coins and money in the 1950s to distinguish us from Russia, which outlawed religious practices |
| "E Pluribus Unum" | "From many, one." indicates how our culture and society is a product of many peoples coming together and unifying |
| Roy Benavides | Vietnam war soldier and Congressional Medal of Honor winner |
| 4th amendment | No illegal searches |
| 5th Amendment | No self-incrimination |
| 14th Amendment | Citizenship to freed slaves |
| 19th amendment | Women’s suffrage. They can vote. |
| 15th amendment | Slaves are freed and given right to vote |
| 18th Amendment | Prohibition making alcohol production illegal |
| 26th Amendment | Right to vote at age 18 |
| 1st Amendment | Basic freedoms, religion, press, assembly, petition |
| 17th Amendment | Direct election of senators. |
| Bill of Rights | The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution |
| 21st Amendment | Repeals prohibition or the 18th amendment making alcohol illegal |
| 24th Amendment | Forbids the denial of the right to vote for US citizens. |
| 22nd Amendment | Limits number of terms a president can serve—2 terms maximum |
| 2nd Amendment | The right to bear arms (own guns) |
| Amendments | Additions to the Constitution |
| 20th Amendment | Mandates January 20th as the beginning of the presidential term. |
| 13th Amendment | Abolishes slavery in the United States and territories |
| Immigration Quotas | Result of American intolerance of ethnic minorities |
| Checks and Balances | Constitution provides for Executive, Judicial and Legislative branches to prevent any one area from gaining too much power |
| Federalism | States have power, but federal government has ultimate authority. |
| Tyranny of the Majority | One of Tocqueville’s characteristics of democracy |
| Serviceman’s Readjustment Act | Following WW2 provided loans for housing, education, etc. from the GI bill |
| Social Darwinism | Robber Barons and others used this idea that the most “fit” become wealthy to justify monopolies, imperialism and racism. |
| Egalitarianism | Society of equals from of Tocqueville’s characteristics of democracy. |
| Declaration of Independence | US document containing the foundation of Government beginning “When in the course of human events” and “We hold these truths to be self-evident” |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act | A New Deal program raising agricultural prices by limiting surplus. |
| Free Market System | Laissez faire policies (hands off) that mostly ended with New Deal policies |
