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| 10416730322 | Roe V Wade verdict and arguments | court ruled that women right to her health was protected under the 14th amendment, and that abortions should be legal until viability. Dissenters argued that the fetuses personhood started at conception, which would protect their lives under the constitution | 0 | |
| 10416730961 | How did the ERA start | • Strike started after the government failed to enforce the equal pay act or title VII of the civil rights act banning discrimination on basis of sex. | 1 | |
| 10416732472 | Dissent against the ERA | STOP ERA led by Phyllis Schlafly argued that women should be thankful for their lives and that the ERA would lead to women in combat, gay marriage, and unisex bathrooms. ◦ support by most religious people and men and women who saw a womans place as a wife and mother | 2 | |
| 10416732473 | Billie Jean King | • women's tennis player that rose to be the best in the world and formed several Women's tennis organizations and helped push to make prize money equal for men and women | 3 | |
| 10416734093 | battle of the sexes | tennis player-turned-conman challenged Billie to a match and when they played, Billie absolutely crushed him. -> helped bring women athlete inequalities to fame and made Billie one of the most influential women in the world | 4 | |
| 10416735952 | How did Stonewall riot start and what went down | • Police during the 50s and 60s kept logs of known gay bars and people and began to shut these places down and institutionalize known gays • Stonwall riot: Police raided the NY "it" gay bar which caused massive dissent from the patrons when females refused to go to bathrooms to confirm their genders and the men refused to get into cars. The riot humiliated the cops as they were injured and held hostage in the bar and the gays did kicklines while signing songs | 5 | |
| 10416736859 | What started Save Our Children | • In the 70s, a county ordinance in Dade declared that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation was no longer legal | 6 | |
| 10416736860 | Save Our Children and result | Anita Bryant tried to appeal to the people of Dade county who didn't think homosexuality was all that bad by saying that homosexuals were trying to recruit their children into their community => Dade ordinance was repealed | 7 | |
| 10416739035 | Moral Majority and bryant | Bryant became a spokesperson for upholding Christian values that was popular among religious groups, however when speaking to secular ones she was not as popular because she did not have any arguments outside religious ones against homosexuality | 8 | |
| 10416740057 | Falwell Moral Majority | turned his focus from his megachurch to gain support for homophobic movements. He spearheaded a collation of religious groups to take political action to defend their religions ideals (moral majority) ◦ Claimed that he helped elect Ronald Reagan with his Moral Majority | 9 | |
| 10416741816 | Result of Dade ordinance repeal | other lawmakers and senators stopped their support and bills for gay rights bc it made them think homosexuals didn't have any support. | 10 | |
| 10416742457 | Briggs initiative/Prop 6 | broad bill to prevent anyone in support of homosexuality, regardless of their sexual orientation, from working in schools | 11 | |
| 10416742458 | California Defend our Children | organization led by Briggs that used the same strategies as Save Our Children (child molestation stories, newspaper headlines) to gain voters for anti homosexual laws | 12 | |
| 10416742961 | Harvey Milk | first openly gay man to be elected to office in California. Sought to overturn Prop 6 which he achieved when Reagan renounced the prop and turned even republican voters in favor of repealing the bill | 13 | |
| 10416744486 | ROAR | anti busing movement that arose in Boston after two poor white and black schools were forced to integrate. Students didn't show up to school and parents protested the busing there every day | 14 | |
| 10416744487 | Result of busing | ights between blacks and whites arose in retaliation to one another • => White flight: white families began to move out of the urban areas where they would be 'protected' from busing. White families who stayed sent their kids to private or religious schools. The result is that black students were left behind in underfunded urban schools, which is still shown today | 15 | |
| 10416748198 | Why does religious right stay out of politics before the 70s | They believe they should not be concerned with matters outside the kingdom of God and feel as though it is solely their job to preach the bible, not social issues. | 16 | |
| 10416752734 | Pyrric Victories for religious right | prohibition and Scopes trial | 17 | |
| 10416757248 | Why does religious right become politcal in the 70s | the rising liberal movements coupled with the rising drug and hippy movement led to the rise of the conservative right | 18 | |
| 10416758317 | heritage foundation | conservative american think tank in washington D.C to promote conservative public policies. based the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional american values and a strong national defense. | 19 | |
| 10416761652 | Difference between the old right and the new right | New: social conservatism was at the top of their agenda and they were more populist Old: wanted less governement power and increased military spending | 20 | |
| 10416765372 | Did the moral majority actually influence the Reagan election? | No, he would have won with or without their support | 21 | |
| 10416767000 | Why did southerners really abandon the democratic party | the continued ratification of earlier trends towards republicanism | 22 | |
| 10416768789 | Whose agenda did Reagan pass | the Old right: although he campaigned for limiting social reform, he actually only took real action on limiting the government though tax cuts and cuts in domestic programs as well as increasing defense spending | 23 | |
| 10416771272 | National Review | A conservative magazine who criticized liberal policy. | 24 | |
| 10416773415 | Moral Majority/Jerry Falwell | - A Christian political group that wished to impose upon the government traditional Christian values. - This was based upon a conviction that the country had excelled in economic matters and prospered when the Biblical values, as well as conservative beliefs, were utilized as a road map for the government. - This society accrued a majority of its popularity through television broadcasts, and came to be known as televangelism. | 25 | |
| 10416778560 | Fundamentalists | people who observe strict adherence to religious beliefs and oppose social reform | 26 |
