https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn Jess Arnn en-us 2021-05-16 19:46:12 UTC 2021-05-16 20:59:48 UTC hello@padlet.com jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528963328 The idea that giving tax cuts to the top 10% will eventually bring profit to trickle down and bring good things to the working and lower classes of America. ]]> 2021-05-16 19:47:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528963328 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528967031 An economic philosophy that holds the sharply cutting taxes will increase the incentive people have to work, save, and invest. Greater investments will lead to more jobs, a more productive economy, and more tax revenues for the government. ]]> 2021-05-16 19:49:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528967031 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528975361 Religion became an instrument for electoral politics when an evangelist from Virginia, Jerry Falwell founded this, which helped financed campaigns to unseat liberal members of Congress.]]> 2021-05-16 19:56:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528975361 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528976035 He helped redefine the purpose of government and pressured the Soviet Union to end the Cold War. He solidified the conservative agenda for decades after his presidency. ]]> 2021-05-16 19:56:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528976035 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528977349 The attempt to get rid of (through deportation, displacement or even mass killing) members of an unwanted ethnic group in order to establish an ethnically homogenous geographic area.]]> 2021-05-16 19:57:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528977349 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528978939 The reduction or elimination of government power in a particular industry, usually enacted to create more competition within the industry.]]> 2021-05-16 19:59:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528978939 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528979431 Was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006, and was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. A moderate conservative, she was known for her dispassionate and meticulously researched opinions.]]> 2021-05-16 19:59:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528979431 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528980832 A popular term referring to the economic policies of Ronald Reagan, the 40th U.S. president (1981–1989). His policies called for widespread tax cuts, decreased social spending, increased military spending, and the deregulation of domestic markets.]]> 2021-05-16 20:00:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528980832 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528981931 She served in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985, and was the Democratic Party's vice presidential nominee in 1984, running alongside former vice president Walter Mondale.]]> 2021-05-16 20:01:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528981931 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528983067 Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to the Khomeini government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo. ... The administration hoped to use the proceeds of the arms sale to fund the Contras in Nicaragua.]]> 2021-05-16 20:02:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528983067 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528983743 Glasnost was taken to mean increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union (USSR). Glasnost reflected a commitment of the Gorbachev administration to allowing Soviet citizens to discuss publicly the problems of their system and potential solutions.]]> 2021-05-16 20:02:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528983743 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528984416 The restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system, in an attempt to end the Brezhnev Stagnation. Perestroika allowed more independent actions from various ministries and introduced many market-like reforms.]]> 2021-05-16 20:03:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528984416 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528985253  American politician, diplomat, and businessman who served as the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. ... After the war, he graduated from Yale and moved to West Texas, where he established a successful oil company.]]> 2021-05-16 20:04:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528985253 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528986356 The Tiananmen Square protests were student-led demonstrations calling for democracy, free speech and a free press in China.]]> 2021-05-16 20:04:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528986356 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528988903 Iraqi president Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion and occupation of neighboring Kuwait in early August 1990. ... Hussein defied United Nations Security Council demands to withdraw from Kuwait by mid-January 1991, and the Persian Gulf War began with a massive U.S.-led air offensive known as Operation Desert Storm.]]> 2021-05-16 20:06:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528988903 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528992949 Prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of Congress from taking effect until the start of representatives' next set of terms of office.]]> 2021-05-16 20:10:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528992949 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528993654 He helped bring about a stock-market surge, low unemployment, minimal inflation, and general prosperity. He balanced the national budget for the first time in 30 years.]]> 2021-05-16 20:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528993654 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528996145 North American Free Trade Agreement, controversial trade pact signed in 1992 that gradually eliminated most tariffs and other trade barriers on products and services passing between the United States, Canada, and Mexico.]]> 2021-05-16 20:12:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528996145 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528997108 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. Newton Leroy Gingrich is an American politician and author who served as the 50th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. He served as House Minority Whip. ]]> 2021-05-16 20:13:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528997108 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528998637 The Contract with America was a legislative agenda advocated for by the Republican Party during the 1994 congressional election campaign.]]> 2021-05-16 20:14:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528998637 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528999378 September 11 attacks, also called 9/11 attacks, series of airline hijackings and suicide attacks committed in 2001 by 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda against targets in the United States, the deadliest terrorist attacks on American soil in U.S. history.]]> 2021-05-16 20:14:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1528999378 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529000818 Term used to describe the American-led global counterterrorism campaign launched in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.]]> 2021-05-16 20:15:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529000818 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529002225 Reached multiple free trade agreements and successfully nominated John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. He sought major changes to Social Security and immigration laws, but both efforts failed.]]> 2021-05-16 20:16:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529002225 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529004202 A federal pardon in the United States is the action of the President of the United States that completely sets aside the punishment for a federal crime.]]> 2021-05-16 20:18:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529004202 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529004888 A pardon extended by the government to a group or class of people, usually for a political offense. ]]> 2021-05-16 20:19:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529004888 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529005836 A series of agreements that were signed in August 1975, during the period of Detente, by leaders of the USA, the USSR and 35 nations who were members of NATO and the Warsaw Pact.]]> 2021-05-16 20:19:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529005836 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529006580 A series of talks between American and Soviet negotiators from 1972 to 1979 that sought to curtail the manufacture of strategic nuclear weapons]]> 2021-05-16 20:20:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529006580 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529009115 A term for various right-wing political groups or policies in different countries. It has also been used to describe the emergence of Eastern European parties after the collapse of the Soviet Union.]]> 2021-05-16 20:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529009115 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529009910 Proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons.]]> 2021-05-16 20:23:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529009910 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529011044 A military operation to expel occupying Iraqi forces from Kuwait, which Iraq had invaded and annexed months earlier.]]> 2021-05-16 20:24:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529011044 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529012044 Refers to the technological, political, economic, financial, and cultural exchanges between peoples and nations that have made and continue to make the world a more interconnected and interdependent place.]]> 2021-05-16 20:24:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529012044 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529012648 Entitles eligible employees of covered employers to take unpaid, job-protected leave for specified family and medical reasons with continuation of group health insurance coverage under the same terms and conditions as if the employee had not taken leave.]]> 2021-05-16 20:25:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529012648 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529014297 Often referred to as the Brady Act or the Brady Bill, is an Act of the United States Congress that mandated federal background checks on firearm purchasers in the United States, and imposed a five-day waiting period on purchases.]]> 2021-05-16 20:26:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529014297 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529015367 An international terrorist group committed to opposing foreign power and what it sees as corrupt Islamic regimes. It was founded by former Mujahideen forces that opposed Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.]]> 2021-05-16 20:27:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529015367 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529016477 A decision of the United States Supreme Court on December 12, 2000, that settled a recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore.]]> 2021-05-16 20:28:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529016477 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529017901 Passed in 2001 to improve the abilities of U.S. law enforcement to detect and deter terrorism.]]> 2021-05-16 20:29:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529017901 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529019070 Executive division of the U.S. federal government responsible for safeguarding the country against terrorist attacks and ensuring preparedness for natural disasters and other emergencies.]]> 2021-05-16 20:30:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529019070 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529020400 Says that if the President becomes unable to do his job, the Vice President becomes the President. ]]> 2021-05-16 20:31:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529020400 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529021173 The difference between the money the federal government takes in, called receipts, and what it spends, called outlays each year.]]> 2021-05-16 20:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529021173 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529021968 A supporter of a political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise.]]> 2021-05-16 20:32:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529021968 jarn2366 https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529022592 Characteristically shows respect for American traditions, republicanism, and limited federal governmental power in relation to the states, referred to more simply as limited government and states' rights.]]> 2021-05-16 20:33:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jarn2366/3o88px7w0s6q1emn/wish/1529022592