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Revenue Sharing |
distributed a portion of federal tax revenues to the states to be spent as state officials saw fit |
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D. P. Moynihan |
presidential advisor, Democrat |
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AFDC |
Aid to Family with Dependent Children, a welfare program |
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EPA |
Environmental Protection Agency |
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OSHA |
Occupational Health and Safety Administration |
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Miranda Vs. Arizona |
reinforced defendents' rights by requiring arresting officers to notify defendents of thier legal rights |
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Baker Vs. Carr |
'one person, one vote' , all person's votes shoudl have equal weight, no matter where they lived |
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Engel Vs. Vitale |
banned organized prayer in public schools as a violation of 1st Amendment |
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Warren Burger |
concervative chief justice to succeed Earl Warren |
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Roe Vs. Wade |
Justice Blackmun struck down laws prohibiting abortion in TX and GA |
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Harry Blackmun |
a chief justice under Nixon |
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George Wallace |
Alabam gov who challenged Nixon |
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Thomas Eagleton |
McGovern's running mate |
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Watergate |
scandle during Nixon administration involving stolen papers |
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Daniel Ellsberg |
leaked the Pentagon Papers to the NY Times |
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Pentagon Papers |
detailed many American blunders in Vietnam |
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''plumbers'' |
secret intelligence group that was suppose to plug leaks of sec gov info |
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John Deen |
drew up an 'enemies list' of Nixon's opponents |
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CREEP |
Committee on Re-Elect the President |
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H. R. Haldeman |
chief of staff who told the CIA to tell the FBI not to probe too deeply w/ white house and burgular connections |
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Carl Bernstein |
Washington Post reporter, exposed the cover up attempt and traced it back to white house |
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Bob Woodward |
Washington Post reporter, exosed the cover up attempt and traced it back to white house |
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John Mitchell |
attorney general |
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Gerald Ford |
sworn in as Pres following Nixon's resignation |
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Spiro Agnew |
VP under Nixon |
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PAC |
Political Action Committees |
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OPEC |
Organization of Patroleum Exporting Countries |
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GDP |
Gross Domestic Product |
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Stagflation |
combination of inflation and unemployment |
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Rust Belt |
older industrial regions of the NE and Mid W |
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Industrialization |
increase in industrial sector, stock basis of US |
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Rachel Carson |
biologist who published 'Silent Spring' |
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Love Canal |
area built in toxic waste site that caused problems w/ residents |
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Three Mile Island |
nuclear power plant that came critically close to a meltdown of its central core reactor |
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EPA |
Environmental Protection Agency |
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DDT |
a pesticide that was banned in 1972 |
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Ralph Nader |
a lawyer that wrote 'Unsafe at Any Speed' |
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Title IX |
benefited female athletes by prohibiting colleges/universities from descriminating based on sex |
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Louis M. Gibbs |
environmentalist, lead a campaign against toxic waste in her neighborhood |
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Affirmative Action |
redressed history of discrimination against non whites in employment and education |
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Griswold Vs. Conn. |
overturned state laws against the sale of cotraseptives to married adults, later extended to single ppl |
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ERA |
Equal Rights Amendment |
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Phyllis Schafly |
advocated traditional roles for women |
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Millikin Vs. Bradley |
supreme court tried to intergrate schools by ordering that students be sent to non neighborhood schools |
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Allal Bakke |
white man that sued the U of CA Med School at devis for rejecting him in favor of less qualified minority students |
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Jerry Fallwell |
televangelist who committed to promoting 'family values' in American society and politics |
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Moral Majority |
political pressure group that promoted Christian 'family values' |
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Election 1976 |
Dem. Carter wins |
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Camp David Agreement |
marked peace in the Mid East |
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Ayatolah Khomeini |
fundamentalist Muslim leader who led revolution |
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Election 1980 |
Rep Reagan wins |
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William Rehnquist |
apointed as justice by Nixon, later became Chief Justice of US |
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Raynolds v Sims |
one person, one vote |
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Louis F. Powell, Jr. |
justice apointed by Nixon |