APUSH Ch 28

Bakke v. University of California

1978 Supreme Court ruling that limited affirmative action by rejecting a quota system

Equal Rights Amendment

Constituional amendment passed by Congress in 1972 that would require equal treatment of men and women under federal law

Rust Belt

the once heavily industrialized regions of the Northeast and Midwest that went into decline after deindustrialization.

Stagflation

an economic term coined in the 1970s to describe the condition in which inflation and unemployment rise at the same time.

Jimmy Carter

39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981

Three Mile Island

A nuclear plant near Harrisburg. PA, where a reactor core came close to a meltdown in March 1979

Freedom of Information Act

passed in the wake of the Watergate scandal, the 1974 act gave citizens access to federal records

Roe v. Wade

1973 Supreme Court ruling that the Constitution protects the right to abortion, which states cannot prohibit in the early stages of pregnancy

Phyllis Schlafly

American attorney and conservative activist successfully campaigned against the ERA

Gerald Ford

38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977

Proposition 13

A measure passed overwhelmingly by Californians to roll back property taxes, cap future

Tax revolt

a movement to lower or eliminate taxes

OPEC

a cartel formed in 1960 by the Persian Gulf States and other oil rich developing countries that allowed its members to exert greater control over the price of oil

Energy Crisis

A period of fuel shortages in the United States after the Arab states in Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries declared an oil embargo in October 1973

Rachel Caron-

author of "Silent Spring"