This 1973 law reduced water pollution by industry and agriculture.
Clean Water Act
This 1970 law combatted air pollution by limiting emissions from factories and automobiles.
Clean Air Act
This 1973 law helped to protect endangered plants and animals.
Endangered Species Act
In 1970, President Nixon & Congress created this agency to protect the environment.
Environmental Protection Agency
On April 22, 1970, Americans celebrated this day of environmental activism.
Earth Day
This book by Rachel Carson launched the environmental movement in 1962.
Silent Spring
Underground pollution called _____ waste can cause high rates of cancer & birth defects.
Toxic
At Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, there was a partial meltdown at a ______ power plant.
Nuclear
Which political group----liberal or conservative---wanted the government to create environmental regulations?
Liberal
This is the theory that men & women should have political, social and economic equality.
Feminism
Betty Friedan wrote this 1963 book describing why women are upset about how they are treated at home and in the workforce.
The Feminine Mystique
This political organization was created to support the ERA & to push for the legalization of abortion.
National Organization for Women (NOW)
This failed amendment would have guaranteed gender equality under the law if it had passed.
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
This female journalist founded Ms. Magazine in 1972.
Gloria Steinem
This 1972 law banned discrimination in education (including school sports) on the basis of sex.
Title IX
This 1973 Supreme Court decision gave women the right to legal abortions.
Roe v. Wade
