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US History Hour: Chapter 24

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Vocabulary

1. Revenue Sharing 12. Imperial

2. Family Assistance Plan 13. Bungled

3. Southern Strategy 14. Testimony

4. Stagflation 15. Human Rights

5. Realpolitik 16. Environmentalists

6. Détente 17. Resign

7. Salt I Treaty 18. Camp David Accords

8. New Federalism 19. Camp David

9. Integration 20. Three Mile Island

10. Busing

11. Impeachment

People / Groups

1. Richard M. Nixon 10. John Dean

2. OPEC 11. Ayatollah Khomeini

3. President Gerald R. Ford 12. Rachel Carson

4. President Jimmy Carter 13. Andrew Young

5. The President’s Men 14. Anwar el-Sadat

6. Watergate 15. Menachem Begin

7. CRP: Committee to Re-elect the President 16. Environmental Protection

8. Saturday Night Massacre 17. EPA: Environmental Protection Agency

9. John Siricia

Television

1. All in the Family: Archie Bunker and Edith Bunker

George Jefferson

2. The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Mary Richards

3. Chico and the Man: Ed Brown and Chico Rodriquez

4. Sesame Street

5. Roots: miniseries. Book by author Alex Haley

Questions:

1. Explain the Conservative changes that President Nixon started upon his election in 1969.

2. Identify the purpose of the Southern strategy that President Nixon promoted.

3. Explain what stagflation was and why the US was having trouble with OPEC.

4. What was President Nixon’s stand on foreign policy? Why was it a success?

5. What was the Watergate scandal? Who was involved? Why did President Nixon resign?

6. Describe the overwhelming fear that President Nixon had.

7. Explain how the Cover-Up of Watergate unraveled.

8. What evidence existed for a call to impeach President Nixon?

9. Describe the fight between the President and the Supreme Court over the “Watergate Tapes.”

10. Describe the personality of Gerald Ford.

11. Why did the new President Gerald Ford pardon former President Nixon?

12. Identify the elements that made up President Ford’s foreign policy.

13. Who was the new President Jimmy Carter?

14. Describe the domestic and foreign policies of the Carter Administration.

15. Why was there an energy crisis in America?

16. Explain the Carter Administration’s stand on human rights and the consequences

in the foreign arena.

17. Why did the US turn over the control of the Panama Canal to the Panamanians by 1999?

18. Identify the Iran hostage crisis. How did it finally end?

19. Where and why did the roots of environmentalism begin?

20. What impact did Rachel Carson and her book, Silent Spring, have on US citizens?

21. What was Earth Day and when did it begin?

22. Describe the debate and concerns over nuclear energy and the accident at Three Mile Island.

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