RAH Exam 2

Question 1

All citizens are to be treated equal under law

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14th amendement

Question 2

Acquired Immune Deficiency syndrome, the set of symptoms and illnesses caused by the HIV virus that killed any Americans in the lat twentieth century

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AIDS Crisis

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Organization of Native Americans activists formed in 1968 to promote native self-determination.

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American Indian Movement

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a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation’s decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause.

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Anti-War Movement

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the process through which individuals and groups of differing heritages acquire the basic habits, attitudes, and mode of life of an embracing culture.

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Assimilation

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an American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age

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Bessie Smith

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t was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality.

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Black Panthers

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a philosophy of racial empowerment as opposed to assimilation into white cult

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Black Power

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The 1954 Supreme Court Decision that overturned the “separate but equal” opinion of Plessy v Ferguson and provided federal support for the civil rights movement

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Brown v. Board of Education

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Led by architect Daniel Burnham, the movement sought to impose order and symmetry on the disordered life of American cities.

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City Beautiful

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prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

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a political movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish institutional racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement throughout the United States.

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Civil Rights Movement

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U.S government policy introduced in 1851 forced Native American tribes to live in specific regions thereby opening new areas for settlement

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Concentration, Subjugation

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the protection of land for carefully managed development

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Conservation

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an increased focus on purchasing goods for personal use; the protection to promotion of consumer interest

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Consumer Culture

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a way of life opposed to the prevailing culture; the term typically refers to the revolution of lifestyles, values, and behavior among some younger people in the 1960s.

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Counterculture

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a trend of increasing inequality in living standards between men and women due to the widening gender gap in poverty.

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Feminization of Poverty

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a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of far-left movements, including Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events included the Russian 1917 October Revolution and anarchist bombings.

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First Red Scare

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Civil Rights initiative in which groups of interracial students traveled by bus through segregated states

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Freedom Rides

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attempted by civil rights activists in the summer of 1964 to encourage Black voter registration mostly in segregated saris like Alabama and Mississippi

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Freedom Summer

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Fundamentalism emphasizes authority and fixed creeds in religion; modernism emphasizes freedom and progress in religious thought.

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Fundamentalism and Modernism

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the movement of nearly half of a million black people from eh rural south to industrial cities in the north in the era of the First World War

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Great Migrations

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One of the first black students at Lee University

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Hazel Edwards Ivy

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Legislation that revised laws from the 1920s, allowing for greater immigration from most areas and removing preferences for norther European immigrants

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Immigration Act of 1965

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an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.

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Jack Kerouac

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New York Newspaper photographer who wrote How the Other Half Lives, which used photos and words to expose the harshness of the tenement life

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Jacob Riis

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Influential social worker and advocate of the settlement house movement

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Jane Addams

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it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent, including U.S. citizens, would be incarcerated in isolated camps.

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Japanese Interment (WWII)

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a type of music of black American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm, emerging at the beginning of the 20th century.

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Jazz

Question 30

A dense network of scare and local statutes that institutionalized an elaborate sister of racial hierarchy

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Jim Crow

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an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets

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John Keats

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One of many secret societies that used terrorism and physical violence to intimidate those freed from slavery and undercut their constitutional rights, especially the rights to vote

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Klu Klux Klan

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a leading writer of the Harlem Renaissance

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Langston Hughes

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the public killing of an individual who has not received any due process. These executions were often carried out by lawless mobs, though police officers did participate, under the pretext of justice.

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Lynching

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Leader of civil rights movement who promoted Black Power ; assassinated in 1965

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Malcolm X

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the largest demonstration for human rights in United States history, more than 250,000 demonstrators descended upon the nation’s capital to participate

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March on Washington

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Baptist minister who came to prominence during the Montgomery bus boycott and went on to be the voice of the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1968

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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name was given to the anticommunist crusade of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s, during which he recklessly persecuted alleged communists, often without evidence

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McCarthyism (2nd Red Scare)

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a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama.

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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the presence of, or support for the presence of, several distinct cultural or ethnic groups within a society.

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Multiculturalism

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a leading advocacy organization for women rights formed in 1966

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National Organization for Women

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A belief in the superiority of native-born inhabitants over immigrants; in particular, an anti-immigrant movement that began in the early 1800s in the United States and crested with the passage of immigration restrictions in 1924

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Nativism

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The New Woman was a feminist ideal that emerged in the late 19th century and had a profound influence well into the 20th century.

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New Woman

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the dissolution of a marriage does not require a showing of wrongdoing by either party.

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No Fault Divorce

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The quality of being patriotic; devotion to and vigorous support for one’s country.

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Patriotism

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Playground reformers believed that supervised play could improve the mental, moral, and physical well-being of children, and in the early twentieth century they expanded their calls into a broader recreation movement aimed at providing spaces for adult activities as well.

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Playground Movement

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an 1896 Supreme Court decision that ruled that separate accommodations for Blacks and whites were legal so long as they were equal

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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embraced democratic concepts such as participation and engagement of all citizens, in ways that affected social, economic, and political benefits for all.

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Progressive Education Reform

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a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States of America that spanned the 1890s to World War I.

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Progressive Movement

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Race often referred to the group with which you share a similar cultural background, language, religion, or geographical origin. Ethnicity is to learn what group of people you identify with according to the common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background.

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Race and Ethnicity

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freedom of thought, conscience, and religion

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Religious Right

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Supreme Court decision of 1973 that made abortion legal in all the states based on privacy rights during the early period of pregnancy and made it difficult for states to create legislation against abortion until the second and third trimesters.

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Roe v. Wade

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The popular image of a woman performing industrial work during World War II in America. Became a symbol of female contributions to the war effort

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Rosie the Riveter Myth

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defendants in a controversial murder trial in Massachusetts

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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organizations that provided support services to the urban poor and European immigrants

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Settlement Houses

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The Manifesto was drafted to counter the landmark Supreme Court 1954 ruling Brown v. Board of Education, which determined that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional.

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Southern Manifesto

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nonviolent movement of the U.S. civil rights era that began in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960.

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Sit Ins

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the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during 1960

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SNCC

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a U.S. civil-rights activist who in the 1960s originated the Black nationalism rallying slogan, Black power.

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Stokely Carmichael

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The southeastern and southwestern regions of the United States

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Sun Belt

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a white mob attacked residents, homes, and businesses in the predominantly Black Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Tulsa Riots

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an American urbanist, sociologist, organizational analyst, journalist and people-watcher. He identified the elements that create vibrant public spaces within the city and filmed a variety of urban plazas in New York City in the 1970s.

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William Whyte

Question 63

Located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, it was the site of a massacre of between 150 and 300 Sioux, including women and children, by the US Army on December 29, 1980

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Wounded Knee