Megan Mallory
World History E-Core
Period 5
26 May 2005
Questions A-F Page 862
- Joseph
McCarthy
- He
was a Senator who charged many Americans with laboring communist
sympathies
- Eventually
they government condemned McCarthy’s reckless behavior because he had
ruined the careers of thousands of Americans
- Great
Society
- Reformers
urged bold new programs to help the poor and disadvantaged
- Lyndon
Johnson started a program that funded Medicare and housing for poor
- Ronald
Reagan
- In
the 1980s, conservatives challenged costly social programs and the growth
of government
- President
Ronald Reagan called for cutbacks in government
- Brown
vs. Board of Education of Topeka
- In
1954 this was an issue handled by the Supreme Court
- It
declared that segregated schools were unconstitutional
- Martin
Luther King Jr.
- He
was a gifted preacher who emerged as a leader of the civil rights
movement
- He
was inspired by Gandhi’s campaign
- St.
Lawrence Seaway
- This
opened the Great Lakes to on-going ships
- This
increased the economy in both the United States and Canada