History Chap 26

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Equal Rights Amendment

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Amendment to guarantee equal rights for women, introduced in 1923 but failed to be ratified by the states

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Iran- Contra affair

Back 2

Scandal of the second Regan administration involving sales of arms to Iran in partial exchange for release of hostages in Lebanon

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Moral Majority

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Started by televangelist Jerry Falwell's, otherwise known as the Religious Right- conservative evangelical Protestants who helped ensure Pres Reagan's victory

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Roe v. Wade

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Court decision requiring states to permit first trimester abortions

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Reaganomics

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Required that the states ratify the 14th amendment and permit freedom to vote

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Tax Reform Act

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Lowered federal income tax rates to 1920's levels and eliminated many loopholes

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Title IX

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Part of the Educational Amendments Act of 1972 that banned gender discrimination in higher education

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Watergate

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Nixon's scandal when his knowledge of the break at the Watergate building and a coverup was revealed

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Swann v. Charlotte Board of Education

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Case approved a lower court's plan that required that extensive transportation of students to achieve school integration

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Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)

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Froze each country's arsenal of intercontinental missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads

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Detente

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The relation period after the cold war with the Soviets.

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Stagflation

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Where unemployment and inflation rates are high

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Iran Crisis

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Stemmed from the Soviet Union's refusal to relinquish occupied Iranian territory

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Jerry Falwell

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Christian evangelical fundamentalist Baptist cleric, televangelist, and a conservative commentator

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Phyllis Schlafly

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American conservative political activist and constitutional attorney known for her opposition to feminism and the Equal Rights Amendment