Terms & Names: Chapter 30

The Sunbelt: the region running from coast to coast along the southern US which is close to the equator and therefore receives optimal sunlight and warmth to grow things. 

Immigration Act of 1965: abolished previously instated historical nationality quotas. 

"A city divided and proud of it": 


Biotechnology: technology as used in medicine, agriculture, and food science. 

Silicon Valley: center of high tech businesses in southern california. 

United Farm Workers: Founded by Philip Cruz, union of farmworkers.

Silent Spring: a book written by Rachel Carson, 1962, widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement.

Environmental Protection Aency: charged to regulate chemicals and protect human health by safeguarding the natural environment: air, water, and land.

All in the Family: broke ground in its depiction of issues previously considered unsuitable for U.S. network television comedy, such as racism, homosexuality, women's liberation, rape, miscarriage, breast cancer, menopause and impotence.

M*A*S*H: series concerning a group of fictional characters who served at the fictional 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War.

Star Trek: science fiction entertainment series, created a cult phenomenon and has spawned many pop culture references.

Ted Turner: an American media entrepreneur and philanthropist, known as founder of the cable television network CNN.

Political Correctness:a term applied to language, ideas, policies, or behavior seen as seeking to minimize offense to gender, racial, cultural, disabled, aged or other identity groups

"Secular humanism:" a humanist philosophy that upholds reason, ethics, and justice, and specifically rejects the supernatural and the spiritual as the basis of moral reflection and decision-making.

Clarence Thomas: supreme court justice, judicially conservative, much debate over his appointment.

Anita Hill: former colleague of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. She is best known for testifying under oath at Thomas' 1991 Senate confirmation hearings that her supervisor Thomas had made provocative and harassing sexual statements.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration: responsible for the nation's public space program.

Refugee Act of 1980: federal law that reformed United States immigration law and admitted refugees on systematic basis for humanitarian reasons.

Imigration Reform and Control Act of 1987: provides for the legalization of illegal aliens who meet certain requirements

Cesar Chavez: a Mexican American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers.

Franchising: methods of practicing and using another person's business philosophy.

Bill Gates: an American business magnate, philanthropist, author, and chairman of Microsoft.

Earth Day: day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment.

Acid Rain: precipitation that is unusually acidic. It has harmful effects on plants, aquatic animals, and infrastructure. Acid rain is mostly caused by human emissions of sulfur and nitrogen.

Three Mile Island: site of the worst civilian nuclear accident in United States history, location of a nuclear power generation plant.

Saturday Night Live: weekly late-night sketch comedy and variety show filmed in New York City.

The Bill Cosby Show: n American situation comedy that aired for two seasons on NBC from 1969 until 1971.

MTV: cable television network based in New York City and launched on August 1, 1981, original purpose to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs.

Multiculturalism: a theory of racial, cultural and ethnic diversity that applies to the demographic make-up of a specific place

Afrocentrism: a world view which emphasizes the importance of African people, taken as a single group and often equated with "Black people", in culture, philosophy, and history

Camille Paglia: an American author, teacher, social critic and dissident feminist.

The Closing of the American Mind: Allan Bloom's criticism of University and primary education of American Youth.

OJ Simpson: football star, acquitted of the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman after a lengthy, highly publicized criminal trial.

Tiger Woods: famous black golfer who won a lot of tournaments, breaking racial barriers and such-not.

Affirmitive ActiON: policies that take race, ethnicity, or gender into consideration in an attempt to promote equal opportunity.

Chicanismo: a cultural movement begun in the 1930s in the Southwestern United States by Mexican Americans to recapture their Mexican, Native American culture.

Rodney King: an American who, on March 3, 1991, was the victim in an excessive force case committed by Los Angeles police officers.

Stonewall:

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrom (AIDS): a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), large social implications because of the connection to homosexuality.

New Right: a conservative political movement that coalesced through grassroots organizing in the years preceding the 1964 presidential campaign of

Jerry Fallwell: an American evangelical Christian pastor, televangelist, and a conservative commentator.

Neoconservatives: political philosophy that emerged in the United States. It supports using U.S. power, including military force, to bring democracy and human rights to other countries, seeing this as virtuous or even morally obligatory.

Brance Dividians: Protestant sect that originated in 1955 from a schism in the Davidian Seventh Day Adventists, 1993 siege on their property near Waco, Texas, by the ATF and the FBI, which resulted in the deaths of 82[1] of the followers of David Koresh.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor, and public intellectual.

Tailhook: a device attached to the empennage (rear) of an aircraft. It is used to achieve rapid deceleration after landing, usually aboard an aircraft carrier.

Proposition 209: California ballot proposition which amended the state constitution to prohibit public institutions from considering race, sex, or ethnicity.

Asian Pacific Planning Council: objective is to enhance economic growth and prosperity in the region and to strengthen the Asia-Pacific community.

Indian gaming regualtion Act: law that establishes the jurisdictional framework that governs Indian gaming.

American Indian movment: led protests advocating Indigenous American interests, inspired cultural renewal, monitored police activities and coordinated employment programs in cities and in rural reservation communities across the United States.

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