The Pill

(noun)

A birth control method that includes a combination of an estrogen and a progestin that, when taken orally every day, inhibits female fertility; first approved for contraceptive use in the United States in 1960.

Related Terms

Examples of The Pill in the following topics:

  • The Sexual Revolution

    • From an economic point of view, the Pill reduced the cost of staying in school.
    • The Pill and the sexual revolution was therefore an important part of the drive for sexual equality in the 1960s.
    • The combined oral contraceptive pills, approved by the FDA in the early 1960s.
    • The Pill had a profound impact on feminism and the sexual revolution.
    • Examine the consequences of the introduction of the birth control pill

  • The New Wave of Feminism

    • Food and Drug Administration approved the birth control pill, freeing women from the restrictions of pregnancy and childbearing.
    • Within five years of the pill’s approval, some six million women were using it.
    • The pill was the first medicine ever intended to be taken by people who were not sick.
    • Among the specific goals was the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (yet to be adopted).
    • Outline the key events in the development of the second wave feminist movement

  • The Transition to Peacetime

    • Massive wartime spending doubled economic growth rates, either masking the effects of the Depression or essentially ending the Depression.
    • Consumerism represented one of the consequences (as well as one of the key ingredients) of the postwar economic boom.
    • One of the key factors in postwar prosperity was a technology boom due to the experience of the war.
    • Alcohol and pill abuse was not uncommon among American women during the 1950s, something quite contrary to the idyllic image presented in TV shows such as Leave It To Beaver, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, and Father Knows Best.
    • Despite the prosperity of the postwar era, a significant minority of Americans continued to live in poverty by the end of the Fifties.

  • Congress of the Confederation

    • The Congress of the Confederation was the governing body of the United States from 1781 to 1789.
    • The Congress of the Confederation was the governing body of the United States of America, in force from March 1, 1781, to March 4, 1789.
    • The Congress of the Confederation opened in the final stages of the American Revolution.
    • Combat in the Revolution ended in October 1781 with the surrender of the British at the Battle of Yorktown.
    • The membership of the Second Continental Congress automatically carried over to the Congress of the Confederation when the latter was created through the ratification of the Articles of Confederation.

  • The Farmer's Alliance

    • One of the goals of the organization was to end the adverse effects of the crop-lien system on farmers in the period following the American Civil War.
    • The Farmers' Alliance moved into politics in the early 1890s under the banner of the People's Party, commonly known as the "Populists."
    • The political activism of the alliances gained strength in the late 1880s as the organization merged with the nearly 500,000-member Agricultural Wheel in 1888.
    • In 1892, the Farmers' Alliance founded the People's Party, and the Ocala Demands were incorporated in the party's Omaha Platform.
    • As the focus of the farmers' movement shifted into politics, the Farmers' Alliance faded away.

  • The Pequot War

    • Other than the hardship of the journey and the difficulty of building homes in what the Puritans considered a wilderness, only one major obstacle threatened the security of the expanding settlements: the Pequot.
    • Mystic, or Missituk, was the site of the major battle of the war.
    • This turned the war against the Pequot and broke the tribe's resistance.
    • The Indian constantly suffered at the hands of the colonists, yet at the same time was growing more dependent on the colonists' trade goods.
    • The separation of the Mohegan and the smallpox cost the Pequot almost half of their people.

  • The Allied Drive Toward Berlin

    • The crossing of the Rhine, the encirclement and reduction of the Ruhr, and the sweep to the Elbe-Mulde line and the Alps all established the final campaign on the Western Front as a showcase for Allied superiority in maneuver warfare
    • In the North, Operation Plunder was the name given to the assault crossing of the Rhine at Rees and Wesel by the British 21st Army Group on the night of March 23.
    • In the north, the U.S.
    • The crossing of the Rhine, the encirclement and reduction of the Ruhr, and the sweep to the Elbe-Mulde line and the Alps all established the final campaign on the Western Front as a showcase for Allied superiority in maneuver warfare.
    • Summarize Eisenhower's drive toward Berlin, including the crossing of the Rhine, the encirclement and reduction of the Ruhr, and the sweep to the Elbe-Mulde line and the Alps.

  • Land Ordinances and the Northwest Territory

    • Therefore, the immediate goal of the ordinance was to raise money through the sale of land in the largely unmapped territory west of the original states acquired in the Treaty of Paris.
    • The primary effect of the Northwest Ordinance was the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States out of the region south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River.
    • Further, the prohibition of slavery in the territory had the practical effect of establishing the Ohio River as the boundary between free and slave territory in the region between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River.
    • The passage of the ordinance, which ceded all unsettled lands to the federal government, followed the relinquishing of all such claims over the territory by the states.
    • The Mississippi River, along with the Ohio River and the Appalachian Mountains, were the boundaries of the 1784 Land Ordinance

  • The Philippine-American War

    • The conflict arose after the Philippine Revolution of 1896, from the First Philippine Republic's struggle to gain independence following annexation by the United States.
    • The conflict arose when the First Philippine Republic objected to the terms of the Treaty of Paris, under which the United States took possession of the Philippines from Spain after the Spanish-American War.
    • The war with and occupation by the United States would change the cultural landscape of the islands.
    • Under the 1902 "Philippine Organic Act," passed by the U.S.
    • Finally in 1946, following World War II and the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, the United States granted independence through the Treaty of Manila.

  • The Second Bank of the United States

    • The Second Bank of the United States was chartered in 1816, five years after the First Bank of the United States lost its own charter.
    • The Second Bank of the United States, like the First Bank before it, was created as part of the American System of economics.
    • The bank was created when President James Madison and Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin found that the government was unable to finance the country in the aftermath of the War of 1812, which placed the United States in significant debt.
    • The result was the Panic of 1819 and the situation leading up to McCulloch v.
    • The case made its way through the courts, all the way up to the U.S.