Tuesday, March 17th - Period 8 Lesson 12

Open Ended

Identify 2 Supreme Court cases from the 1960s/1970s dealing with the 1st Amendment and explain the specific issue of the case.

• GI Bill of Rights, 1944*

  • Serviceman's Readjustment Act

  • provided a range of benefits to returning WW2 soldiers

  • low-cost mortgages, low interest loans, college tuition, unemployment pay for a year

    • portions still exist today

• Sun Belt

  • Region of the country from South Carolina to California that saw a major shift in population after WW2

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​Post-War Economic Prosperity

​Prosperity of the 1950s

• On pg. 208, analyze the graphs regarding the economic prosperity in the United States following WW2.

• Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

  • Abolished the national origins formula from the 1920s

  • Aimed against Eastern Europeans and Asians

  • Led to immigration increases into the U.S. after its passage

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​Immigration

• Silent Spring

  • Environmental science book written in 1962

  • Discussed the harm of pesticide use on the environment

  • Led to an environmental movement leading to the creation of the EPA

• Earth Day

  • An annual event begun in 1970 to demonstrate support for environmental protection

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The Environmental Movement

• Environmental Protection Agency

  • Independent agency of the federal government created in 1970

  • maintains and enforces federal environmental laws

  • enforcement with fines and sanctions

• Clean Air Act

  • Federal air quality law to reduce and control air pollution

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The Environmental Movement

• Three Mile Island

  • partial nuclear meltdown

  • released radioactive gases into the atmosphere

  • worst accident in U.S. nuclear power plant history

  • Statistical increase in cancers around the area according to some studies but not others

  • Level 5 accident on a scale of 7

  • Chernobyl Level 7 (1986)

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The Environmental Movement

Laws which the EPA enforces -

• On the next slide you are given a link to the EPA's website.

• Click it and research the laws that the EPA enforces in the United States today.

• After, you will pick 3 laws that stick out most to you.

• You will identify and describe each of the 3 laws with open-ended questions in this lesson.

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Open Ended

1. 1. Identify the law and describe what it is specifically does.

Open Ended

1. 2. Identify the law and describe what it is specifically does.

Open Ended

1. 3. Identify the law and describe what it is specifically does.