AMSCO United States History 2015 Edition, Chapter 30 Conservative Resurgence, 1980-2000
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| 6535083248 | Conservatism | A set of beliefs that includes a limited role for the national government in helping individuals, support for traditional values and lifestyles, and a cautious response to change. | 0 | |
| 6534826964 | religious fundamentalism | People who attacked secular humanism as a godless creed taking over public education. They campaigned for the return of prayers and the teaching of the Biblical account of creation in public schools. (p. 655) |  | 1 |
| 6534826967 | abortion rights; Roe v. Wade | The legalization of abortion in the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case, sparked the right-to-life movement. The movement united Catholics and fundamentalist Protestants, who believed that life begins at conception. (p. 655) |  | 2 |
| 6534826969 | Regents of University of California v. Bakke | The admissions policies of one medical school were challenged. The Supreme Court ruled that while race could be considered, the school had created racial quotas, which were unconstitutional. Conservatives used this decision to intensified their campaign to end all preferences based on race and ethnicity. (p. 655) |  | 3 |
| 6534826972 | supply-side economics (Reaganomics) | This economic theory argued that tax cuts and reduced government spending would increase investment by the private sector, which would lead to increased production, jobs, and prosperity. (p. 656) |  | 4 |
| 6534826984 | Nicaragua; Sandinistas; Iran-contra affair | In Central America, Reagan supported right-wing dictators as long as they were friendly to the United States and anti-Communists. In Nicaragua, a Marxist movement known as the Sandinistas had overthrown the dictator. The U.S. responded by providing military aid to the "contras" in their efforts to remove the Sandinistas. (p. 660). Iran and Iraq were at war, the United States sold antitank and antiaircraft missiles to Iran's government for their help in freeing Americans held hostage by radical Arab group. The U.S. then used the profits from the sale to fund the contras in Nicaragua. This violated the Boland Amendment and congressional budget authority. (p. 660) |  | 5 |
| 6534827007 | Persian Gulf War | After Saddam Hussein invaded oil rich Kuwait, President George H. W. Bush built a coalition of United Nations members to pressure Hussein to withdraw from Kuwait. The U.N. embargo had little effect. In January 1991, the massive Operation Desert Storm brought air strikes down on Iraq. After only 100 hours of fighting on the ground, Iraq conceded defeat. (p. 664) |  | 6 |
| 6534827011 | Americans With Disabilities Act | In 1990, this act prohibited the discrimination against citizens with physical and mental disabilities in hiring, transportation, and public accommodation. (p. 665) |  | 7 |
| 6534827017 | NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement, which created a free-trade zone with Canada and Mexico. (p. 667) |  | 8 |
| 6534827046 | Internet, e-commerce | The 1990s saw growth in the Internet and in electronic commerce (purchases made online). (p. 668) |  | 9 |
| 6534932565 | Globalization | The idea that the world is becoming increasingly interconnected on a global scale such that smaller scales of political and economic life are becoming obsolete. | 10 | |
| 6537008024 | Bush v. Gore | Because of the closeness in the election of 2000, Gore ordered that ballots be recounted in Florida because of a potential mistake. The Florida Supreme Court authorized a recount in all counties. Result: Such a recount is unconstitutional because there is no standard set in the Constitution to do such nor does the state of Florida have the right to set up a new election law. The Florida Supreme Court may not create a new national election law. - 14th A. | 11 | |
| 6534936952 | War on Terrorism; September 11, 2001 attack | An international action, initiated by President George W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks, to weed out terrorist operatives throughout the world. A series of coordinated suicide attacks by terrorists upon the United States on September 11, 2001. | 12 | |
| 6535074091 | Homeland Security Department | US federal agency created in 2002 to coordinate national efforts against terrorism | 13 | |
| 6535078918 | Operation Iraqi Freedom | Operation where U.S. troops invaded Iraq and Saddam's forces collapsed almost immediately. Baghdad fell, and Saddam and other Iraqi leaders went into hiding. In the months that followed Saddam and many of his supporters were captured | 14 | |
| 6535081094 | Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) | is a program of the United States government to purchase assets and equity from financial institutions to strengthen its financial sector that was signed into law by U.S. President George W. Bush on October 3, 2008 | 15 |
