Ppl and events chpt 39 apush

Albert Gore = Senator of tennessee, Clinton's VP and running mate

J. Danforth Quayle = Bushes vp 

H. Ross Perot = reform party candidate, texas billionaire, talked about federal deficit problem, made a big deal about how he never held public office 

Ruth Bader Ginsburg = 2nd female supreme court judge  

Branch Davidians = Fundamentalist sect 

Newt Gigridge = Republican speaker of the house

Madeleine albright = first woman secretary of state 

 Robert Dole = 1996 republican candidate

Proposition 209 = prohibited affirmative action based decision in higher education and the gov in california

Hopwood v. Texas = prohibited affirmative action based decision in higher education and the gov in texas 

O.J. Simpson = accused of murdering his wife but was acquitted due to suspicions of racial sentiments

Oprah WInfrey, Lebron James, Denzel Washington = black entertainer   

Pink collar ghetto = women taking part in lower prestige and lower 

Paying occupations 

Family and medical leave act of 1993 = mandated job protection for working fathers as well as mothers who needed to take time off from work for family-related reasons

Slobodan Milošević = serbian prez, ethnic cleansing of albanians