(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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Roe v. Wade
The 1973 Supreme Court ruling that the Constitution protects the right to abortion, which states cannot prohibit in the early stages of pregnancy. The decision galvanized social conservatives and made abortion a controversial policy issue for dec
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Constitutional amendment passed by Congress in 1972 that would require equal treatment of men and women under federal and state law. Facing fierce opposition from the New Right and the Republican Party, the ERA was defeated as time ran out for s
watergate
Term referring to the 1972 break-in at Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., by men working for President Nixon’s reelection campaign, along with Nixon’s efforts to cover it up.
Stagflation
An economic term coined in the 1970s to describe the condition in which inflation and unemployment rise at the same time.
Earth Day
An annual event honoring the environment that was first celebrated on April 22, 1970, when 20 million citizens gathered in communities across the country to express their support for a cleaner, healthier planet.
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Richard Nixon
37th President of the United States involved in the Watergate scandal.
Freedom of Information Act
Passed in the wake of the Watergate scandal, the 1974 act gave citizens access to federal records.
Phyllis Schlafly
a conservative lawyer who opposed the ERA and who led the STOP ERA organization
Silent Spring
Book published in 1962 by biologist Rachel Carson.
Energy crisis
A period of fuel shortages in the United States after the Arab states in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) declared an oil embargo in October 1973.
STOP ERA
An organization founded by Phyllis Schlafly in 1972 to fight the Equal Rights Amendment.
Endangered Species Act (1972)
prohibits the import, export, or taking of fish and wildlife and plants that are listed as threatened or endangered species
tax revolt
A movement to lower or eliminate taxes. California’s Proposition 13, which rolled back property taxes, capped future increases for present owners, and required that all tax measures have a two-thirds majority in the legislature, was the result o
Proposition 13
A measure passed overwhelmingly by Californians to roll back property taxes, cap future increases for present owners, and require that all tax measures have a two-thirds majority in the legislature.
Bakke v. University of California
1978 Supreme Court ruling that limited affirmative action by rejecting a quota system.