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40 Cards in this Set
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The system of producing and distributing goods |
economy |
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practical science |
technology |
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he developed the polio vaccine |
Dr. Jonas Salk |
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the first black major league baseball player |
Jackie Robinson |
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the first black American to be a performing member of the Metropolitan Opera |
Marian Anderson |
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the act that guaranteed equal voting, housing, and job rights to ethnic minorities |
1964 Civil Rights Act |
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the black woman who refused to give up her seat on a city bus, leading to the desegregation of that bus system |
Rosa Parks |
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the civil rights leader famous for his "I have a dream" speech |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr |
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the black Supreme Court Justice who stressed the importance of moral character |
Justice Clarence Thomas |
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the alliance of Western European nations, Canada, and the US against Communism |
NATO |
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What does NATO stand for? |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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the first American to fly in space |
Alan Shephard |
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the first man to walk on the surface of the moon |
Neil Armstrong |
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a person who endeavors to break away from traditional beliefs and values |
liberal |
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a person who wants to preserve traditional beliefs and values |
conservative |
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the President who called his welfare program the New Frontier |
John F Kennedy |
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the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion |
Roe vs. Wade |
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the two practices that the Supreme Court made illegal in 1962 and 1963 |
prayer and Bible reading in public schools |
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the president who called his social reform program the Great Society; he made a major commitment to fighting Communism in South Vietnam |
President Lyndon B. Johnson |
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the president who resigned from office because of the Watergate Affair; he was the first president ever to resign from office |
President Richard M. Nixon |
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the first American to orbit the earth |
John Glenn |
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the president who negotiated the surrender of the Panama Canal Zone to Panama |
President Jimmy Carter |
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Ronald Reagan's Vice President who was elected President in 1988 |
George Bush |
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the dictator of Iraq who invaded Kuwait in 1990 |
Saddam Hussein |
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the American general in command of Operation Desert Storm |
General Colin Powell |
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The American general appointed to lead the troops into combat |
General Norman Schwarzkopf |
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the investigation into allegations that President Clinton was involved in questionable dealings |
Whitewater Investigation |
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the two movements that were strengthened because of an increasing decline in academics and morality in public schools |
Christian school movement and Home-school movement |
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the state that became the deciding vote in the 2000 presidential elections |
Florida |
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the two acts of terrorism that took place in the US during the 1900s |
Bombing of the World Trade Center and the federal building in downtown Oklahoma City |
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the deadliest attach on American soil since Pearl Harbor; happened on September 11, 2001 |
Attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon |
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radical Islamic group that had taken power in Afghanistan and provided shelter for the al Qaeda terrorists |
Taliban |
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the name given to President Reagan's idea against Communism |
Reagan Doctrine |
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the first woman justice ever appointed to the Supreme Court |
Sandra Day O'Connor |
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the tragedy that shocked the nation in 1986 and interrupted the space program |
Challenger exploded |
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the costliest storm in US history |
Hurricane Katrina |
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the nations President Bush referred to as an "axis of evil"; why did he refer to them as this |
Iran, Iraq, and North Korea
because they were countries that would acquire weapons of mass destruction and support terrorism |
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the first black President in our nations history |
Barack Obama |
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Islamic terrorist group whose leader was Osama bin Laden |
Al Qaeda |
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the attempt to return America to the traditional values of church, family, and free enterprise |
Reagan Revolution |
