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The Equal Pay Act of 1963 abolished wage disparity based upon __________.

As a reaction to the Cold War, millions of school-aged children in the 50s watched the film Duck and Cover.  The film featured a turtle educating children how to protect themselves during a nuclear attack.

This act enabled the federal government to gather foreign intelligence information by wiretapping American citizens, even searching computers and library records.

Wallace stood at this university and promised to keep his campaign pledge of “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregaton forever.”  The National Guard would be federalized, Wallace would step aside, and the students would be escorted in.  (In reality, Robert Kennedy made it know if Wallace caused to much trouble he would arrest him and lock him in the federal prison outside Atlanta.)

American general in charge of Allied troops in the Pacific during WWII.

This was started because Iraq invaded Kuwait.

The federal government appropriated $3 billion to fund the mapping of human genes.  It identified all of 100,000 genes by 2003.

Roe v.Wade centered around this controversial moral issue.

On December 1, 1969, the Selective Service held its first Vietnam Draft Lottery.  Each male of appropriate age was given a number based on his birhday.  Men selected were to report to the draft board to be evauluated.  This provided a fair and equal way to draft American’s young men.

The Warren court often sided with the conservatives especially the “silent majority” and produced extremely conservative rulings.