SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE/DOMESTIC ISSUES
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- 8. was created to help the poor with health care.
- 9. argued against segregation on behalf of Brown. Marshall would later become the 1st African American justice in the U.S. Supreme Court.
- 10. A domestic program for America which was the most sweeping domestic agenda since FDR's New Deal of the 19th.
- 12. the separation of people based on race
- 14. movement against racial segregation and discriminations in the southern United States
- 15. Civil Rights Leader
- 16. a refusal to purchase or partake in an event because of political opposition
- 19. Critics call them reverse discrimination.
- 20. Amendment Abolished the Poll Tax in federal elections
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- 1. was created for those with physical disabilities to compete in the olympics
- 2. Case that ruled that a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy is constitutionally protected under the right to privacy implied in the Ninth Amendment.
- 3. was created to provide high school dropouts with vocational training.
- 4. gave female college athletes the right to the same financial support as male athletes
- 5. Feminist also campaigned for this amendment but it failed.
- 6. was created to provide health insurance for those over the age of 65
- 7. became the first African American to play major league baseball.
- 11. alerted people to the dangers of cigarettes, cars, credit cards, toys, ladders, power tools, and worker safety. Was launched by Ralph Nader
- 13. ended literacy tests, allowed the federal government to register voters in areas suspected of denying the vote to African-Americans.
- 17. a book that challenged the traditional role of women as homemakers written by Betty Friedan in 1963
- 18. civil rights group (abbreviated)