USA2 Flashcards
The motorbike rider that was beaten by the cops
Rodney King (90s)
Trump’s presidency - what did not happen during his presidency - removal of affordable healthcare act/the climate thing with Pensylvania (?)/tax reform/one other option(No Child Left Behind Act?)
he didn’t manage to overturn the affordable healthcare
Picture of an elephant
republican party/Grand Old Party
Three branches
legislative, executive, and judicial
NAACP
Du Bois
LGBT Protests started with what
Stonewall Riots
Active since 1955, assassinated in 1968 the African American supporter, civil rights movement
Martin Luther King Jr.
How is one generation called when there was increase in child birth
baby boomers
Quote speech - patchwork heritage, Christians, Muslims Jews and non-believers
Obama
Main events in 70’ multiple choice
Richard “Watergate” Nixon visits China, inflation and gas shortage, watergate
Main events in 60’ multiple choice
Woodstock and Tet offensive, landing on the moon?
Main events in 50’ multiple choice
baby boom, rise of tv culture?,
Roe vs Wade - initial law passed
abortion in first trimester
African American
Women
Native Americans
Hispanic
African American - sit-ins
Women -ERA Equal Rights Amendment
Native Americans - occupation of Alcatraz
Hispanic - boycott grape something (table?)
Image of pigs - what minority was it poking fun o
chinese
Matching question (I think this was the match the years? 1830s, 1860s?, 1870s?, 1890s, 1930s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s/90s?) ONE OR MORE EVENTS MISSING
Trail of Tears 1830s
Battle of the Little Bighorn 1870s
Wounded knee massacre 1890s
New deal 1930s
Alcatraz 1960s
the 1970 thing was some Pulitzer
Trail of broken treaties? 1970s
American ideal immigrants will assimilate
melting pot
Eisenhower sent forces in 1957 to disperse mob in front of school - where
Little Rock, Arkansas
Lone Native American on a horse sculpture - what it symbolizes
End of the trail by James Fraser
Which election was the closest in popular vote
Bush v Gore
What did Trump’s and Bush’s election have in common
Both lost popular vote but electoral college won them the election
Canadian theorist Marshall McLuhan on media - what did/didn’t stand for?
He did say: Media as extensions of the human body and the senses, Medium is the message,The medium is the massage you should know what he didnt say as it will be the last option
Turning point in Vietnam war
Tet offensive
What didn’t happen during Obama
“mission accomplished” was by Bush
Event that came closest to causing nuclear war between USA and USSR
Cuba crisis
5 rulings (why they happened + select which):
Brown v Topeka
· US v Nixon
· Marbury v Madison
· Loving v Virginia
· Bush v Gore
· Plessy v Ferguson
· Worcester v Georgia
Brown v Topeka - school segregation unequal
· US v Nixon - president can’t claim immunity or executive privilege
· Marbury v Madison - US court can strike down laws they deem unconstitutional
· Loving v Virginia - marriage is one of the ‘basic civil rights of man, fundamental to our very existence and survival
· Bush v Gore - ended a statewide recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court
· Plessy v Ferguson - separate but equal facilities are constitutional
· Worcester v Georgia - native american territories cannot be regulated by the government and are separate entities
Main reason for people immigrating to US
economic growth
in the last 20 years, from which region came most immigrants to the US - Latin Am./Africa/South Asia/East Asia ??
Latin America
John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassination - fill in - not actually sure if it was there
If it was the perpetrator then Lee Harvey Oswald.
Backlash (1991, by Susan Faludi) - what was the main point it was criticizing
female oppression
Something like what do catholics stand by,like “which things they stand for/are important for them”?
unchanging doctrine, intolerance etc Christians and someone
Who follows Bible literally - Answers - quakers, congregationalism or something, phys something, methodosomething, fundamentalists
fundamentalists
Something with FOX NEWS and what party they stand for
republicans
States where the Baptist religion is the dominant one
I think it was Texas, Arkansas, and other ones, but Texas was the first option + Alabama, Luisiana?
Which affiliation religious is more prone to be democratic
christians of color and unaffiliated I believe
Fill in - native american rights organization in 19th century that was created by Paiute
Ghost Dance movement
What was the television referred to
family hearth
The scripture: I lift my lamp beside the golden door! Is found on which monument -
The Statue of Liberty
Eisenhowers view on the economy
Laissez-faire attitude towards the economy
Something about what was one movement called “great…”
the “Great Society” legislation
The 14th amendment bans all but
Double jeopardy
Shortest period of time between a nomination to the Supreme Court and an election in U.S. history
Amy Coney Barrett
Something about what is the constant problem that is being talked about in us
Right to bear arms
What didnt happen during George W. Bush
assassination of Bin Laden was by obama
What isnt a part of the system of checks and balances
the executive branch, the judicial branch, and the legislative branch
Something about what isnt a constitutional right ?
economic equality
