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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission) | a federal regulatory agency that governed over the rules and regulations of the railroading industry. |
| FTC (Federal Trade Commission) | protects consumers from misleading and fraudulent advertising. Reviews advertising claims. Can order a company to change their ad |
| NAACP (National Association of the Advancement of Colored People) | organization that worked to find employment and to secure civil rights for African Americans |
| RFC (Reconstruction Finance Corporation) | loaned money to banks, insurance companies, and railroads so that they would stay in business |
| FEPC (Fair Employment Practices Committee) | investigated charges of discrimination in army or work places |
| NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) | an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries |
| EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) | established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment |
| OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) | a government agency in the Department of Labor to maintain a safe and healthy work environment |
| SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) | a student organization that opposed the war in vietnam and held marches |
| SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) | Reagan's plan that attempted to create a defensive shield, reducing the threat of MAD; nicknamed "star wars" |
| INF (Intermediate Nuclear Force) | both superpowers agreed to get rid of their stockpiles of missiles and allowed each other to inspect the other side to prevent cheating |
| NOW (National Organization for Women) | organization that wanted Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to enforce its legal mandate to end sex discrimination |
| ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) | promised equal treatment for men and women in all areas |
| HUAC (House of Un-American Activities Committee) | a congressional Committee that investigated Commmunist influence inside and outside the US gov. after WWII |
| NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) | allows open trade with US, Mexico, and Canada |
| SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) | negotiations between the US and Soviet Union; designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons |
| AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act) | attempted to regulate agricultural production through farm subsidies; ruled unconstitutional in 1936; disbanded after World War II |
| TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) | relief, recover, and reform; one of the most important acts that built a hyro-electric dam for a needed area |
| NRA (National Recovery Administration) | a powerful lobby that advocates the right to own and bear arms and rejects any gun regulation by the government |
| WPA (Works Progress Administration) | massive work relief program funded projects ranging from construction to acting; disbanded by FDR during WWII |
| CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) | relief that provided work for young men 18-25 years old in food control, planting, flood work, etc. |
| SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) | an independent federal agency that oversees the exchange of securities to protect investors |
| FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) | a federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts in national banks and other qualified institutions |
| 16th Amendment | authorized federal income tax |
| 17th Amendment | provided for the direct election of Senators by the people |
| 18th Amendment | prohibited sale and production of intoxication liquors |
| 19th Amendment | gave women the right to vote |
| 20th Amendment | reduce the amount of time between the election of the President and Congress and the beginning of their terms |
| 21st Amendment | ended the Prohibition of alcohol in the US, repealed the 18th amendment |
| 22nd Amendment | limits the president to two terms |
| 23rd Amendment | gave residents of Washington DC the right to vote |
| 24th Amendment | outlawed the poll tax |
| 25th Amendment | presidential succession, vice presidential vacancy, and presidential disability |
| 26th Amendment | lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 |
| 27th Amendment | regulates pay (raises for members of Congress) |
| Mary E. Lease | lecturer, writer, and political activist; advocate of the suffrage movement as well as temperance but she was best known for her work with the Populist party. |
| Margaret Sanger | founder of birth control |
| Dorothea Lange | photographed migrant farm workers during the Great Depression; inspired government aid programs and Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath |
| Eleanor | ... |
| Ethel Rosenberg | convicted and executed in 1953 for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union; records opened after the end of the Cold War suggest her husband was guilty, but she didn't have anything to do with it |
| Lucille Ball | Actress and TV star of the comedy series, "I Love Lucy" |
| Rosa Parks | civil rights worker whose arrest in 1955 touched off the Montgomery bus boycott |
| Rachel Carson | marine biologist, author of Silent Spring ->inspired concern for the environment |
| Betty Friedan | feminist author; critized limited roles for women in her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique |
| Gloria Steinem | journalist, women's rights leader since 1960s; founded Ms. Magazine in 1972 to cover women's issues |
| Phyllis Schlafly | conservative activist; led campaign during the 1870s and 1980s to block the Equal Rights Amendment |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | first women Supreme Court Justice; appointed by President Reagan in 1981 |
| Sinclair | writer of The Jungle->argued for social reform |
| Langston Hughes | writer active during the Harlem Renaissance |
| Louis Armstrong | jazz musician famous for his long trumpet solos and "scat" singing |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | novelist who depicted the US and the world during the 1920s in novels such as The Great Gatsby |
| Woodrow Wilson Guthrie | one of the muscians most closely associated with the plight of American workers during the great depression; began his career as a hillbilly singer |
| M Anderson | ... |
| Walt Disney | United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck |
| Elvis Presley | an American singer, actor, and musician who was cultural icon; known as "the King of Rock 'n' Roll"; one of the most influential artists in music's history |
| Ralph Nader | consumer advocate; published Unsafe at Any Speed in 1965, criticizing auto safety and inspiring new safety laws; Green Party candidate for president in the 2000 election |
| Bruce Springsteen | his lyrics lamented the disappearance of the white working class, became the decade's most popular new rock artist |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | supreme court ruled that segregation public places facilities were legal as long as the facilites were equal |
| Brown v. Board of Education | court found that segregation was a violation of the Equal Protection clause "separate but equal" has no place |
| Swann v. Mecklenburg County Board of Education | important US Supreme Court case dealing with the busing of students to promote integration in public schools |
| Regents of the University of California v. Bakke | 1978 state university couldn't admit less qualified individuals solely based on race; no quotas |
| Roe v. Wade | 1973 Supreme Court case that legalized abortion |
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