Uncle Sam: The USA Flashcards

1
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La Bannière étoilée (drapeau)

A

The Stars and Stripes

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La Bannière étoilée (drapeau & hymne)

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The Star-Spangled Banner

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3
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L’Amerique est un pot-pourri

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America is a melting-pot

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4
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Un immigrant

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A settler / an immigrant

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5
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Une société multiculturelle

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A multicultural society

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6
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Un Indien d’Amérique

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A native American

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7
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Un Afro-American

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An African American

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8
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Un Chicano

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A Mexican American / a Chicano

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Un hispano-américain / un latino

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A Hispanic / a Latino

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10
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Un WASP

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A WASP (a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant)

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Un pays d’abondance / un eldorado

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A land of plenty / an El Dorado

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12
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Un pays de cocagne

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A land of milk and honey

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13
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Un pays où tout est possible

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A land of opportunity

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14
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Le mode de vie américain

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The American way of Life

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15
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La destinée manifeste

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Manifest Destiny

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16
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Les pères fondateurs

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The founding fathers

17
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La Déclaration d’Indépendance

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The Declaration of Independence

18
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La Constitution américaine

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The American Constitution

19
Q

La Cour suprême

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The Supreme Court

20
Q

La ruée vers l’or

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The Gold Rush

21
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La guerre de Sécession

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The Civil War

22
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La culture des armes

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Gun culture

23
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La crise économique de 1929

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The Depression / the Slump

24
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Le blocage budgétaire

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The shutdown

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L'impeachment (procédure de mise en accusation du president)
Impeachment
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L'équilibre des pouvoirs
Checks and balances
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L'obstruction parlementaire
Filibustering
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Les mesures de discrimination positive
Affirmative action
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L'individualisme forcené
Rugged individualism
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Être individualiste
To be individualistic
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Partir de rien
To start from scratch
32
Ne compter que sur soi
To be self-reliant
33
L'indépendance
Self-reliance
34
Passer de la misère à la richesse
To rise from rags to riches
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Pouvoir s'élever dans la société
To be upwardly mobile
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Malgré sa fragilité, l'Amérique à la capacité perpétuelle de se régénérer et comme l'a dit FD Roosevelt en 1933, "la seule chose qu'elle ait à craindre est la crainte"
Despite its frailty America has the perpetual abolit to reinvigorate itself and as FD Roosevelt said in 1933, "the only thing it has to fear is fear itself"