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| Rachel Carson | A marine biologist who wrote "Silent Spring", a book which attacked use of pesticides, and awakened environmental concern in Americans. |
| Earth Day | A day set aside for environmental education, celebrated annually on April 22. |
| Environmentalist | A person who works to protectteh environment from destruction and pollution. |
| Environmental Proection Agency | An agency established in 1970 to enforce pollution standards, to conduct environmental research, and to assist state and local governments in pollution control. |
| Three Mile Island | The location of a nuclear power plant that malfunction on March 28, 1979 causing 100,000 resident to be evacuated for fear of leaking radiation. |
| Ronald Reagan | A conservative republican and former actor who won the 1980 promising a "new morning in America" by turning his higly conservative agenda into public policy. |
| Entitlement program | A government program--such as Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid--that guarantees and provides benefits to a specific group. |
| New Right | A late-20th-century alliance of conservative special-interest groups concerned with cultural, social, and moral issues. |
| Reverse Discrimination | An unfair treatment of members of a majority group--for example, white men--resulting from efforts to correct discrimination against members of other groups. |
| Conservative Coalition | A late-20th-century alliance of right-wing groups opposed to big government, entitlement programs, affirmative action, the busing of students to achieve integration, and the supposed moral decline of the U.S. people. |
| Moral Majority | A political alliance of religious groups, consisting mainly of evangelical and fundamentalist Christians, that was active in the 1970s and 1980s, condeming liberal attitudes and behavior and raising money for conservative candidates. |
| George Bush | Regan's leading competitor who he selected for his running mate for the 1980 election. |
