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51 Cards in this Set
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as the US entered the 70's the ____ boom ended
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economic
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what were some reasons the economy went down in the 70's?
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-vietnam drained money
-the great society drained money (put money w=in without adding goods-inflation) -outdatted industry compared to Germany and Japan |
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what did the 26th amendement do?
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lowered voting age to 18
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although conservative, NIxon signed cost of living increases for ___ ____
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-social security (also increased spending for medicare medicaid)-helped fuel inflation in 1970's
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Griggs v duke power co. prohibited the use of intelligence tests to exclude ___ and ___ from jobs
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-minorities and women
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Bakke v Regents of the Univ. of Cali upheld what?
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affir. action
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what did Nixon do for the environment?
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-EPA, Clean Air Act, Endangered species act
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NIxon had a problem with the ___ ___ when he came into office
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supreme court
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engel vs Vitale prohibited ___ in school due to the separation of church and state (1st amendment)
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prayer
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Gideon v Wainwright and Escobedo v illinois both gave accused people what?
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-the right to a legal counsil and a defendant even if the couldnt afford it
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Bakke v Regents of the Univ. of Cali upheld what?
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affir. action
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what did Nixon do for the environment?
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-EPA, Clean Air Act, Endangered species act
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NIxon had a problem with the ___ ___ when he came into office
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supreme court
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engel vs Vitale prohibited ___ in school due to the separation of church and state (1st amendment)
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prayer
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Gideon v Wainwright and Escobedo v illinois both gave accused people what?
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-the right to a legal counsil and a defendant even if the couldnt afford it
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Miranda vs Arizona gave people the right to remain?
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silent
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roe vs. wade made what legal?
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abortions
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griswold vs connecticut gave people the right of?
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privacy
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after the formal cease-fire nixon continued to bomb what country?
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cambodia
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under NIxon, Ford, and Reagan the economy is in a ____ spiral
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downward
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what brought about the energy crisis?what did the energy crisis bring about?
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-the embargo of oil by arab countries
-the alaskan pipeline |
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what was Exxon Valdez?
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the worst oil accident prior to the Bp oil spill
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in 1974 it became evident with the oil embargo that the US was susceptible to the?
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world oil market
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the watergate crisis showed that which system worked?
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the system of checks and balances
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the watergate scandal was a match between the ___ and the ___
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executive branch and the legislative branch
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what was the question involving nixon and watergate?
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what did he know and when did he know it?
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what is watergate?
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the building of the democrats-holds all their files-it was one stop shopping for nixon on the democratic party
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watergate was an abuse of ____ power
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executive
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when the senate demmanded NIxon's tapes of his phone conversations he denied them based on what?
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executive privilege
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nixon was the only president to?
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resign
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watergate shows that the _____ works!
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constitution
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what was Mao Zhe dong's reaction to Nixon being forced form office?
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he's your best leader and you are kicking him out for lying?! i killed 90 million, Ya'll are retarded
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who replaced NIxon?
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his VP ford
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Title 9 prohibited discrimination based on?
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sex-equal rights amendment
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Court ordered bussing of balcks caused what?
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the flight to the suburbs
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what did Cater beat ford?
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he won because of his appeal to the american people "one of them" and his lack of connection to washington
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what ruined the carter white house?
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foreign policy failures-iran hostage crisis
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Reagan gave was to a rise in?
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Neo-conservatives
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Reagan re-erected which economic startegy?
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trickle-down (and he had the time to make it work)
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what was the "silent majority"? what did it become known as under Reagan?
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it was mainstream america that supported Vietnam, but it became the "moral majority"
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why was affirmative action a double edged sword?
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-blacks felt they were only there because of affirmative action
-but blacks did get into better institutions |
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reagan said the ____ was not the solution, it was the problem
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government
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reagan and conservative elements took a chainsaw to what?
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government spending
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what was "supply side" under reagan?
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tax cuts-essentially was ment to open the us to investments....however $hina was now the place to invest
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what was "star wars"?
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increase US military expansion and a new arms race with the Soviets
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shrinking the federal gov and reducing taxes dominated reagan's ___ term whil foreign policy dominated his ____
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-first
-second |
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under Gorbachev,
glastnost= ____ perestroika=____ |
-openness
-restructuring |
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what was reagan's economic legacy?
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rich got rich, poor got poorer-shrunk the middle class
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Ward Cove Packing vs. Antonia & Martin vs. wilks both decreased the power of what?
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Affirmative Action
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what gives clinton the white house?
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the failing economy under bush-"its the economy stupid"
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who is the gayest kid at williamsville east?
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CHRIS DIDURO
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