As You Read About the Rise of a New Women S Movement, Explain How Each of the Following

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Name: Chapter Women Fight for Equality 31 Section 2 As you read about the rise of a new women’s movement, explain how each of the following helped to create or advance the movement.

1. Experiences in the workplace: 2. Experiences in Social Activism:

3. Consciousness Raising: 4. Feminism:

5. Betty Friedan and the Feminine 6. Civil Rights Act of 1964: Mystique:

7. National Organization for Women: 8. Gloria Steinem and Ms. Magazine:

9. Congress: 10. Supreme Court:

The Equal Rights Amendment would have guaranteed equal rights under the law, regardless of gender. 11. Who tended to oppose this 12. What reasons “justified” the defeat amendment? of the ERA? Chapter Environmental Activism 32 Section 4

As you read about the nation’s efforts to address environmental problems, take notes to describe how American attitudes were affected by each event or how the event affected the environment itself.

Events Effects on Attitudes or the Environment 1. Publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring 2. Celebration of Earth Day 3. Creation of the Environmental Protection Agency 4. Passage of the new Clean Air Act 5. Passage of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act 6. (near) Nuclear accident at Three Mile Island

What is an “environmentalist”?

How do you think the OPEC oil embargo affected the environmentalist movement? Chapter 33 Conservative Policies Under Reagan and Bush Section 2 As you read, note the results of “Reaganomics” and of actions taken to achieve important goals of the conservative movement.

Goal: Stimulate the Results: Economy 1. Cut government spending on social programs and lowered income taxes 2. Increased military spending Goal: Promote traditional Results: values and morality 3. Appointment of conservative judges Goal: Reduce the size and Results: power of the federal government 4. Cut the Environmental Protection Agency and appointed “pro- business” administrators

Explain how “supply-side economics” is supposed to work:

Identify the significance of each individual during the Reagan and Bush Years: Sandra Day O’Conner: William Rehnquist: Geraldine Ferraro: Chapter Technology and Modern Life 34 Section 3

As you read about the impact of technological advances during the 1990s, note inventions, trends, and efforts relating to each field listed below.

Field Inventions/Innovations Efforts Popular Trends 1. Communications: 2. Health Care: 3. Genetic Engineering: 4. Entertainment: 5. Education 6. Space Exploration 7. Environment

How did the Telecommunications Act of 1996 affect technology and modern life? Chapter The Changing Face of America 34 Section 4

As you read this section, note three facts or statistics concerning each of the following important trends in the late 20th century.

URBAN FLIGHT 1. The nation 2. goes 3. suburban. BABY BOOMERS 4. The nation 5. turns gray. 6. IMMIGRATION 7. The nation 8. looks 9. different.

Note one challenge the United States will face in each of the following areas during the 21st century.

1. Urban and Suburban Life 2. Aging Population 3. Immigration Policies

Explain where “telecommuting” fits in with the changing face of America: