US History Final Practice

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A culture with lifestyles and valued youth, spontaneity, and freedom of expression

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Counter Culture

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Largest feminist organization in the United States which called for equal employment opportunity and equal pay for women

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National Organization of Women

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Constitutional amendment that will guarantee legal gender equality for women and men.

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Equal Rights Amendment

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Which case made all state laws prohibiting abortions unconstitutional based on a woman's right to privacy?

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Roe V. Wade

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Project branching off of the Niagara River about four miles south of Niagara Falls.

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Love Canal

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An illegal break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in 1972 by members of President Nixon's reelection campaign staff. Before Congress could vote to impeach Nixon for his participation in covering up the break-in, Nixon resigned from the presidency.

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Watergate Scandal

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Power of the President to keep executive communications confidential.

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Executive Privilege

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Students involved in the Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley demonstrated by

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holding sit-ins and stopping classes.

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Why did the Equal Rights Amendment fail to become part of the Constitution?

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Not enough states ratified the amendment by the deadline.

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For much of the twentieth century, ethnic Mexicans in California and the U.S. Southwest were segregated into barrios and also faced

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employment discrimination.