USA Flashcards
Describe the key political features of a world power you have studied
The legislative Congress who have the role of writing laws setting tax rates and to scrutinise the president and example of this is when they tried to impeach Trump over in the Ukraine another example is when they introduced the STEM act to stop animal cruelty
A second key feature is the executive of the president whose role it is to represent the USA llead armed forces and to sign laws and bills and example of this is when he made all the troops in Afghanistan leave he also attended cop 26
A second key feature is the executive of the president whose role it is to represent the USA leave that on forces and to sign laws and bills and example of this is when he made all the troops in Afghanistan leave he also attended cop 26
The final key feature politics in the USA is the judiciary whose role is to follow laws and facilitate conflict between states/Congress I’m example of this is when same-sex marriage became legal in all states or when they stopped trumps travel ban as it was racist to Muslims
Explain in detail the way that citizens can participate in a world power you have studied
They can put themselves forward as a candidate for example Hillary Clinton 2016
they can also vote in elections for example 220 - millions voted for Biden instead of Trump
they are free to protest for example black lives matter protest
the final thing they can do is join political parties for example the democrats
Explain in detail why some groups are more likely to participate in politics than others
Those who are educated are more likely to vote and example of this is that in 1990 - 90% of people with a postgrad education voted but only 30% of people with less than high school qualifications voted
Some groups.are Less likely to participate as they have no role model
Explain in detail why some groups are less likely to participate in the political system
Those with No role model - when ethnic groups have no one like them to vote for - for example when Barack Obama became the first black president because he was supportive of ethnic groups
Describe in detail groups that are under represented in politics in a world power you have studied
Blacks, Latinos and Apis Especially young people aged 18 to 24 as they have no real role model in Congress
Describe in detail social and economic issues in the world power you have studied
Poverty in 2010 1148% of fourth graders were eligible for free or subsidised lunches including 77% Hispanic 74% black 68% of American Indians 34% of Asian and 29% of white students
18% of Latinos live in poverty 21% of blacks and 22% of the LGBT population whereas only 10% of whites live in poverty
Language barriers in 2010 about 69% of Hispanic and 64% of Asian had a language barrier
Education - Latinos are the least likely to go on and get to college education after school
Explain in detail the ways the government tries to resolve social and economic problems in the USA
The Aca - affordable care act and health care for the poor - the uninsured rate dropped by 7% but still left money on insured
The SNAP - supplement nutrition assistance program gives food to people in poverty at least 8 million people out of property poverty but it only covers one third of the food they need
DACA - deferred action for childhood arrivals keeps kids in the USA 91% of dreamers were employed but it does reward those who broke the law
Describe which initiatives have been more successful in response to inequality
SNAP is pretty effective as it is listed 8 million people out of poverty
DACA has been effective because 91% of people who qualify got a working job
ACA Has been effective in providing more healthcare and those not insured fell from 18% to 11%
Snap is effective as it addresses hunger and helps 14 million people in the US but it has been going on for 40 years
Explain the ways that government responses to inequality have been unsuccessful
Explain the ways that government responses to inequality have been unsuccessful
explain in detail ways that the governments have responded to inequalities that have been unsuccessful
Affordable healthcare is the least effective because there are still a large amount of people in the US who are on the insured
Snap supplemental nutrition assistance program has been effective but the property is still very high
Although Dhaka has been very effective with 91% of dreamers in employment black unemployment is still twice as high as weight unemployment
