7th Grade US History - Chapter 26 - Vocabulary

First woman to serve as secretary of state

• Madeleine Albright

• Hillary Rodham Clinton

• Janet Reno

• Sandra Day O'Connor

First Lady who led the presidents plan to regulate all health care in the nation.

• Madeleine Albright

• Hillary Rodham Clinton

• Janet Reno

• Sandra Day O'Connor

The nation's first female attorney general.

• Madeleine Albright

• Hillary Rodham Clinton

• Janet Reno

• Sandra Day O'Connor

First female Supreme Court justice

• Madeleine Albright

• Hillary Rodham Clinton

• Janet Reno

• Sandra Day O'Connor

International terrorist group led by wealthy Saudi Osama bin Laden

• al-Qaeda

• Persian Gulf War

• term limits

• worldview

War to liberate Kuwait from Iraq (January 16-February 27, 1991)

• al-Qaeda

• Persian Gulf War

• term limits

• worldview

Limits on the number of years an elected official can stay in office

• al-Qaeda

• Persian Gulf War

• term limits

• worldview

A set of beliefs that a person uses to look at the world and interpret it.

• al-Qaeda

• Persian Gulf War

• term limits

• worldview

Outlawed job discrimination based on disabilities and made local governments and businesses provide better working conditions for people with disabilities.

• Americans with Disabilities Act

• Defense of Marriage Act

• Welfare Reform Act

• Contract with America

Signed by House Republicans that promised, if elected, they would introduce ten popular bills in the first one hundred days of the next Congress

• Americans with Disabilities Act

• Defense of Marriage Act

• Welfare Reform Act

• Contract with America