Uncle Sam: The USA Flashcards

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La Bannière étoilée (drapeau)

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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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L’Amerique est un pot-pourri

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America is a melting-pot

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Un immigrant

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A settler / an immigrant

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Une société multiculturelle

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A multicultural society

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Un Indien d’Amérique

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A native American

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Un Afro-American

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An African American

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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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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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Un pays de cocagne

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A land of milk and honey

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Un pays où tout est possible

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A land of opportunity

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Le mode de vie américain

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The American way of Life

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La destinée manifeste

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Manifest Destiny

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Les pères fondateurs

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The founding fathers

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La Déclaration d’Indépendance

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The Declaration of Independence

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La Constitution américaine

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The American Constitution

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La Cour suprême

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The Supreme Court

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La ruée vers l’or

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The Gold Rush

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La guerre de Sécession

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The Civil War

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La culture des armes

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Gun culture

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La crise économique de 1929

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The Depression / the Slump

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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)

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Impeachment

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L’équilibre des pouvoirs

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Checks and balances

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L’obstruction parlementaire

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Filibustering

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Les mesures de discrimination positive

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Affirmative action

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L’individualisme forcené

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Rugged individualism

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Être individualiste

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To be individualistic

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Partir de rien

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To start from scratch

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Ne compter que sur soi

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To be self-reliant

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L’indépendance

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Self-reliance

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Passer de la misère à la richesse

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To rise from rags to riches

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Pouvoir s’élever dans la société

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To be upwardly mobile

36
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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”

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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”