Midterm 10/3

Question 1

Structural Functionalism

Answer 1

A school of thought according to which each of the institutions, relationships, roles, and norms that together constitute a society serves a purpose

Question 2

Conflict Theory

Answer 2

Emphasized the competition between groups, often framing issues in terms of dominance and subordination

Question 3

Symbolic Interactionism

Answer 3

Emphasizes how individuals shape/are shaped by society via daily interactions.
-Shared societal meanings are constructed/reconstructed via human communication

Question 4

Feminist Theory

Answer 4

Aims to highlight the social problems and issues that are experienced by women

Question 5

“Great Immigration”

Answer 5

Approx. 6m blacks moved from the south to north, midwest, and west states from the 1910s until the 1970s

Question 6

Industrial Revolution

Answer 6

Increased material wealth, extended life, and was a powerful force for social change. Everyday work environment changed drastically, and the West became an urban civilization

Question 7

Andrew Jackson & Indian Removal Act of 1830

Answer 7

-Authorized federal govt. to negotiate w/ Native American tribes for their ancestral lands in SE US
-tribes were given unsettled western prairie land in exchange

Question 8

Women’s Movement (1840s)

Answer 8

Women demanded improved property rights, employment opportunities, and the ability to vote

Question 9

Women’s Suffrage Association

Answer 9

they were founded in 1869 by Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth C Stanton. It was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women

Question 10

Susan B. Anthony

Answer 10

Began the Womens Suffrage

Question 11

Women’s Suffrage of 1920

Answer 11

the 19th amendment to the constitution was ratified, enfranchising all American women and declaring for the first time that they deserve all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship

Question 12

Equal Pay Act of 1963

Answer 12

U.S Labor Law
-prohibits employers from paying diff. wages to men and female who work under similar conditions and require same skill, effort, and responsibility

Question 13

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972

Answer 13

Prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or education program

Question 14

Mexican American War (1846-1848)

Answer 14

conflict over vast territories in the American West. followed the american annexation of texas, which mexico still considered its territory b/c it refused to recognice the treaties of velasco

Question 15

Abolitionist Movement

Answer 15

organized effort to end slavery in the US

Question 16

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 16

-U.S Supreme Court Ruling
-Declared that no black could claim U.S citizenship or petition a court for their freedom

Question 17

Emancipation Proclamation

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-Issue directed by Abraham Lincoln during Civil War
-Declared all slaves within confederate states to be free

Question 18

13th Amendment

Answer 18

passed after the Civil War to end slavery and protect the rights of former slaves

Question 19

14th Amendment

Answer 19

granted citizenship and rights to former slaves & their descendants

Question 20

15th Amendment

Answer 20

granted voting rights to black men in 1970 after the civil war and the abolition of slavery

Question 21

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 21

enforced segregation and discrimination between blacks and whites

Question 22

Calvin Coolidge

Answer 22

U.S president from 1923-2929

Question 23

Immigration Act of 1924

Answer 23

-included asian exclusion act and national origins act
-prevented immigration from asia and set quotas on the # of immigrants from eastern and southern europe

Question 24

Indian Citizenship Act of 1924

Answer 24

granted full citizenship to american indians & alaska native americans.

Question 25

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer 25

-32nd president of the US and the only one to serve 4 terms
-led the nation through the great depression and WWII
-implemented new deal policies to combat economic and social crises

Question 26

Great Depression

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-global economic disaster
-led to mass unemployment, banking panics, deflation, and increased rates of poverty and homelessness
-causes included slowing consumer demand, mounting consumer debt, decreased industrial production, and the rapid expansion of the U.S. stock market

Question 27

“New Deal”

Answer 27

program aimed to bring about immediate economic relief as well as reforms in industry, agriculture, finance, waterpower, labor, and housing

Question 28

Social Security Act of 1935

Answer 28

-established permanent national old age pension system
-benefits for victims of industrial accidents
-unemployment insurance

Question 29

Civilian Conservation Corp.

Answer 29

work relief program that gave millions of young men employment on environmental projects during the great depression

Question 30

World II

Question 31

Executive Order 9066

Question 32

“Rosie the Riveter”

Question 33

Lanham Act

Question 34

Civil Rights Movements

Question 35

Racial Integrity Act of 1924

Question 36

Rosa Parks

Question 37

Brown vs. Board of Education

Question 38

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 39

Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 40

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Question 41

Loving vs. Virginia

Question 42

Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 43

“War on Poverty”
Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, Job Corp

Question 44

Bill Clinton

Question 45

Welfare Reform Act (1996)

Question 46

“Don’t ask, don’t tell.” (Military)

Question 47

Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)

Question 48

Ronald Reagan

Question 49

Civil Liberties Act of 1988