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Give Me Liberty! Chapter 26 Exam Study
Guide.
Watergate - answer✔Nixon administration scandal, where his knowledge of the break in at the
watergate hotel and subsequent coverup was revealed. Nixon resigned as president following the
incident. , 1972; Nixon feared loss so he approved the Commission to Re-Elect the President to
spy on and espionage the Democrats. A security gaurd foiled an attempt to bug the Democratic
National Committe Headquarters, exposing the scandal. Seemingly contained, after the election
Nixon was impeached and stepped down.
Swann vs. Charlotte Board of Education - answer✔(1971) The court case emphasizing busing for
integration.
-Big push for integration after brown vs. Board, Using busing to integrate schools.
Kent State - answer✔Ohio college where an anti-war protest got way out of hand, the Nat'l
Guard was called in and killed 3 students (innocent & unarmed,wounded 9) in idiscriminate fire
of M-1 rifles
Title IX - answer✔No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from
participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education
program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance
Neoconservatives - answer✔Former liberals who advocated a strong stand against communism
abroad and free market capitalism at home, stressing the positive values of American society in
contrast to liberals who emphasized social ills.
"Well-intentioned government social programs did more harm than good."
Religious Right - answer✔An evengelical conglomeration of ultraconservative political activists,
many of whom support the Republican party. United States political faction that advocates social
and political conservativism, school prayer, and federal aid for religious groups and schools -
drew membership from Catholic & Protestent Evangelicals, they said "boo" to divorce, abortion,
early sex and feminism.
Roe vs. Wade - answer✔The U.S. supreme Court ruled that there is a fundamental right ro
privacy, which includes a woman's decision to have an abortion. Up until the third trimester the
state allows abortion.
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Phyllis Schlafly - answer✔1970s; a new right activist that protested the women's rights acts and
movements as defying tradition and natural gender division of labor; demonstrated conservative
backlash against the 60s. , anti-feminist who led the campaign to defeat the ERA claiming it
would undermine the american family.
Moral Majority - answer✔Political organization of the United States which had an agenda of
evangelical Christian-oriented political lobbying. Organization made up of conservative
Christian political action committees which campaigned on issues its personnel believed were
important to maintaining its Christian conception of moral law. This group pressured for
legislation that would ban abortion and ban the states' acceptance of homosexuality.
Equal Rights Amendment - answer✔a constitutional amendment originally introduced in
Congress in 1923 and passed by Congress in 1972, stating that "equality of rights under the law
shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." Despite
public support, the amendment failed to acquire the necessary support from three-fourths of the
state legislatures.
AIDS - answer✔A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood
products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles.
Dr. Koop- his defense of individual rights and confedentiality in opposing mandatory testing for
the disease has enraged many former supporters of the right. (Science rather than values)
PATCO - answer✔was a union of air traffic controllers that went on strike during Reagan's
presidency. Reagan threatened to fire them if they did not return to work, and he ended up firing
most of them, showing his union busting attitude.
Berlin Wall - answer✔A fortified wall surrounding West Berlin, Germany, built in 1961 to
prevent East German citizens from traveling to the West. Its demolition in 1989 symbolized the
end of the Cold War. This wall was both a deterrent to individuals trying to escape and a symbol
of repression to the free world.
American Exceptionalism - answer✔The belief that america is unique, special, and different
from other nations becuase of civil and religious liberty and democratic form of gov't and that
americas values should serve as an example for the of the world to follow
NAFTA - answer✔A trade agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico that
encourages free trade between these North American countries, Agreement that will eliminate all
tariffs and other trade barriers between those countries.
WTO - answer✔The World Trade Organization - an international body that enforces agreements
that reduce barriers to international trade, similiar to NAFTA but worldwide; 6-8: strong eight
nations together to assist with world economy; often protested cause of their, top-down
pilosophies (working on the bigger nations and then the smaller nations).
Give Me Liberty! Chapter 26 Exam Study
Guide.
Watergate - answer✔Nixon administration scandal, where his knowledge of the break in at the
watergate hotel and subsequent coverup was revealed. Nixon resigned as president following the
incident. , 1972; Nixon feared loss so he approved the Commission to Re-Elect the President to
spy on and espionage the Democrats. A security gaurd foiled an attempt to bug the Democratic
National Committe Headquarters, exposing the scandal. Seemingly contained, after the election
Nixon was impeached and stepped down.
Swann vs. Charlotte Board of Education - answer✔(1971) The court case emphasizing busing for
integration.
-Big push for integration after brown vs. Board, Using busing to integrate schools.
Kent State - answer✔Ohio college where an anti-war protest got way out of hand, the Nat'l
Guard was called in and killed 3 students (innocent & unarmed,wounded 9) in idiscriminate fire
of M-1 rifles
Title IX - answer✔No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from
participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education
program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance
Neoconservatives - answer✔Former liberals who advocated a strong stand against communism
abroad and free market capitalism at home, stressing the positive values of American society in
contrast to liberals who emphasized social ills.
"Well-intentioned government social programs did more harm than good."
Religious Right - answer✔An evengelical conglomeration of ultraconservative political activists,
many of whom support the Republican party. United States political faction that advocates social
and political conservativism, school prayer, and federal aid for religious groups and schools -
drew membership from Catholic & Protestent Evangelicals, they said "boo" to divorce, abortion,
early sex and feminism.
Roe vs. Wade - answer✔The U.S. supreme Court ruled that there is a fundamental right ro
privacy, which includes a woman's decision to have an abortion. Up until the third trimester the
state allows abortion.
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Phyllis Schlafly - answer✔1970s; a new right activist that protested the women's rights acts and
movements as defying tradition and natural gender division of labor; demonstrated conservative
backlash against the 60s. , anti-feminist who led the campaign to defeat the ERA claiming it
would undermine the american family.
Moral Majority - answer✔Political organization of the United States which had an agenda of
evangelical Christian-oriented political lobbying. Organization made up of conservative
Christian political action committees which campaigned on issues its personnel believed were
important to maintaining its Christian conception of moral law. This group pressured for
legislation that would ban abortion and ban the states' acceptance of homosexuality.
Equal Rights Amendment - answer✔a constitutional amendment originally introduced in
Congress in 1923 and passed by Congress in 1972, stating that "equality of rights under the law
shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." Despite
public support, the amendment failed to acquire the necessary support from three-fourths of the
state legislatures.
AIDS - answer✔A serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood
products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles.
Dr. Koop- his defense of individual rights and confedentiality in opposing mandatory testing for
the disease has enraged many former supporters of the right. (Science rather than values)
PATCO - answer✔was a union of air traffic controllers that went on strike during Reagan's
presidency. Reagan threatened to fire them if they did not return to work, and he ended up firing
most of them, showing his union busting attitude.
Berlin Wall - answer✔A fortified wall surrounding West Berlin, Germany, built in 1961 to
prevent East German citizens from traveling to the West. Its demolition in 1989 symbolized the
end of the Cold War. This wall was both a deterrent to individuals trying to escape and a symbol
of repression to the free world.
American Exceptionalism - answer✔The belief that america is unique, special, and different
from other nations becuase of civil and religious liberty and democratic form of gov't and that
americas values should serve as an example for the of the world to follow
NAFTA - answer✔A trade agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico that
encourages free trade between these North American countries, Agreement that will eliminate all
tariffs and other trade barriers between those countries.
WTO - answer✔The World Trade Organization - an international body that enforces agreements
that reduce barriers to international trade, similiar to NAFTA but worldwide; 6-8: strong eight
nations together to assist with world economy; often protested cause of their, top-down
pilosophies (working on the bigger nations and then the smaller nations).
