APUSH: Give me Liberty! Chapter 28 Vocab Review

Hurricane Katrina

2005 hurricane that devastated much of the Gulf Coast, especially New Orleans. The Bush administration’s response was widely criticized as inadequate.

Obergefell v. Hodges

2015 Supreme Court decision that allowed same-sex couples to marry throughout the United States.

Great Recession

A period of major economic stagnation across the U.S. and western Europe, characterized by rising unemployment and inflation and a 37% decline in the stock market between March and December 1974

Sonia Sotomayor

First Supreme Court Justice of Hispanic descent. Justice Sotomayor was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009.

Gulf oil spill

Environmental disaster that occurred in 2010 after an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Hundreds of millions of gallons of oil were spilled into the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in one of the largest environmental calamities in human history.

Occupy Wall Street

A grassroots movement in 2011 against growing economic inequality, declining opportunity, and the depredations of Wall Street banks.

Black Lives Matter

Civil rights movement sparked by a series of incidents of police brutality and lethal force against people of color.

ISIS

An insurgency that emerged from the sectarian civil wars that destabilized Syria and post-Saddam Hussein Iraq. Beginning in 2014, ISIS forced attacked towns and cities in Iraq, Syria, and Libya, systematically murdering members of ethics and religious minorities.

Edward Snowden

An NSA contractor turned whistleblower, who released classified information relating to U.S. intelligence gathering both at home and abroad.

Tea Party

A grassroots Republican movement that emerged in 2009 named for the Boston Tea Party of the 1770s. The Tea Party opposed the Obama administration’s sweeping legislative enactments and advocated for a more stringent immigration policy.

Paris Agreement

2016 agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change concerned with mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.

Women’s March

International protest on January 21, 2017, for women’s rights, LGBT rights, gender equality, and racial equality following the inauguration of President Donald Trump. It was the biggest single-day protest in U.S. history.

Me Too Movement

Social movement founded in 2006 by Tarana Burke to help survivors of sexual violence and oppose sexual harassment and assault, particularly in the workplace. In October 2017 it went viral on social media with #MeToo.

Covid-19

A highly contagious virus that emerged in early 2020, leading to a global pandemic. by 2022, the virus had led to the deaths of one million Americans. The U.S. had a higher recorded death rate than most other countries.

George Floyd’s murder

A Minneapolis Black man killed by police on May 25, 2020. A video captured a police officer kneeling on Floyd’s mecl as he pleaded for air, leading to a wave of protest and calls for police reform.

Capitol attack

A pro-Trump group[ of protestors stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 to disrupt the certification of the 2020 presidential election results. The violent assault on the nation’s capitol led to Trump’s impeachment by the House of Representations one week later. After a brief trial, however, the Senate voted against conviction.

March for Our Lives

Student-led protest on March 24, 2018, against gun violence and for gun control legislation in the U.S.