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Pages 698-735 in Chapter 13 of Who Built America.

On Monday, May 16th, there will be a timed quiz on ten of the following.  Match the numbered items in column one with the lettered items in column two.

 

COLUMN ONE

1.  Spike Lee 

2.  Public Enemy 

3.  Coleman Young 

4.  Roxbury/ South Boston 

5.  Proposition 13 

6.  Jerry Falwell 

7.  ERA 

8.  Vietnam Syndrome. 

9.  Supply side economics. 

10. Michael Milken 

11. McDonalds 

12. PATCO 

13. Austin, Minnesota 

14. Iran-Contra 

15. Phyllis Schafly 

16. Robert Bork 

17. Sandra Day O’Connor 

18. Frank Lorenzo.

19. Stonewall Inn Riot. 

20. Closing of the American Mind

 

COLUMN TWO

A.  First Black mayor of Detroit. 

B.  Founder of the Moral Majority. 

C.  Junk bond king. 

D.  Reagan appoints first woman to Supreme Court. 

E.  The new right successfully opposed its ratification. 

F.  Attacked student activism.

G.  Do the Right Thing

H.  Reluctance to commit U.S. troops overseas. 

I.  Afrocentric rap. 

J.  Gay pride. 

K.  William Casey, Oliver North, Robert McFarlane. 

L.       Rationale for Reagan tax policy 

M.  Liberal coalition stops his appointment to Supreme Court. 

N.  1978 California property tax revolt. 

O.  Biggest U.S. employer of black youth in 80s and 90s. 

P.  President Reagan breaks their strike. 

Q.  Corporate raider & profiteer in deregulated airline industry. 

R.  Site of bitter, unsuccessful 1985 Hormel strike

S.      1975 bussing crisis. 

T.  Outspoken critic of ERA


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