Unit 8 Vocab B

Question 1

United Farm Workers Union

Answer 1

Created by Caesar Chavez, it seeks to empower migrant farmworkers and improve their wages and working conditions

Question 2

The Feminine Mistique

Answer 2

Written by Betty Friedman, the book interviewed housewives and discovered that most were unfulfilled. Sparked second-wave feminism

Question 3

Gloria Steinem

Answer 3

Feminist leader and spokeswoman in the 60s-70s

Question 4

National Organization for Women

Answer 4

American feminist organization of the 60s

Question 5

Equal Rights amendment

Answer 5

proposed amendment to the US Constitution stating that civil rights may not be denied on the basis of one’s sex.

Question 6

Griswold V. Connecticut

Answer 6

ruled that a state’s ban on the use of contraceptives violated the right to marital privacy

Question 7

Miranda v. Arizona

Answer 7

Evidence collected from a defendant from a police investigation may not be used if the defendant was not informed of their rights

Question 8

Roe v. Wade

Answer 8

The right to privacy extends to a woman’s right to have a abortion

Question 9

Bakke v. California

Answer 9

Racial quotas, used by colleges, was unconstitutional in college admissions

Question 10

Phyllis schlafly

Answer 10

Conservative political activist, rallying for anti feminism and against the equal rights amendment

Question 11

Trail of broken treaties

Answer 11

Cross country protest by native Americans the brought attention to Native American issues

Question 12

Strategic arms limitations treaty

Answer 12

SALT 1 and 2, used to slow down the arms race

Question 13

Environmental protection agency

Answer 13

Agency create to protect the environment and regulate pollution

Question 14

Rachel Carson

Answer 14

Wrote Silent Spring, the book that proved the effects of harmful pesticides like DDT

Question 15

Clean Air Act

Answer 15

federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level

Question 16

Watergate

Answer 16

The wire tapping scandal of Nixon’s presidency

Question 17

Pentagon papers

Answer 17

Leaked military papers, Highlighted the ways in which the gov. Lied to the people about the Vietnam war

Question 18

suez crisis

Answer 18

an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France.

Question 19

OPEC

Answer 19

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is an intergovernmental organization of 14 nations

Question 20

sun belt

Answer 20

a strip of territory receiving a high amount of sunshine, especially:
the southern US from California to Florida

Question 21

Sun belt

Answer 21

a strip of territory receiving a high amount of sunshine, especially:
the southern US from California to Florida

Question 22

domino theory

Answer 22

the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.