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USA2 Flashcards

1
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The motorbike rider that was beaten by the cops

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Rodney King (90s)

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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?)

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he didn’t manage to overturn the affordable healthcare

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3
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Picture of an elephant

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republican party/Grand Old Party

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4
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Three branches

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legislative, executive, and judicial

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5
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NAACP

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Du Bois

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6
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LGBT Protests started with what

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Stonewall Riots

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Active since 1955, assassinated in 1968 the African American supporter, civil rights movement

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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How is one generation called when there was increase in child birth

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baby boomers

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9
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Quote speech - patchwork heritage, Christians, Muslims Jews and non-believers

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Obama

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10
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Main events in 70’ multiple choice

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Richard “Watergate” Nixon visits China, inflation and gas shortage, watergate

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Main events in 60’ multiple choice

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Woodstock and Tet offensive, landing on the moon?

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12
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Main events in 50’ multiple choice

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baby boom, rise of tv culture?,

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13
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Roe vs Wade - initial law passed

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abortion in first trimester

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14
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African American

Women

Native Americans

Hispanic

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African American - sit-ins

Women -ERA Equal Rights Amendment

Native Americans - occupation of Alcatraz

Hispanic - boycott grape something (table?)

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Image of pigs - what minority was it poking fun o

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chinese

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16
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Matching question (I think this was the match the years? 1830s, 1860s?, 1870s?, 1890s, 1930s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s/90s?) ONE OR MORE EVENTS MISSING

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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

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17
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American ideal immigrants will assimilate

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melting pot

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18
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Eisenhower sent forces in 1957 to disperse mob in front of school - where

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Little Rock, Arkansas

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19
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Lone Native American on a horse sculpture - what it symbolizes

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End of the trail by James Fraser

20
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Which election was the closest in popular vote

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Bush v Gore

21
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What did Trump’s and Bush’s election have in common

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Both lost popular vote but electoral college won them the election

22
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Canadian theorist Marshall McLuhan on media - what did/didn’t stand for?

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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

23
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Turning point in Vietnam war

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Tet offensive

24
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What didn’t happen during Obama

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“mission accomplished” was by Bush

25
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Event that came closest to causing nuclear war between USA and USSR

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Cuba crisis

26
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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

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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

27
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Main reason for people immigrating to US

A

economic growth

28
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in the last 20 years, from which region came most immigrants to the US - Latin Am./Africa/South Asia/East Asia ??

A

Latin America

29
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassination - fill in - not actually sure if it was there

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If it was the perpetrator then Lee Harvey Oswald.

30
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Backlash (1991, by Susan Faludi) - what was the main point it was criticizing

A

female oppression

31
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Something like what do catholics stand by,like “which things they stand for/are important for them”?

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unchanging doctrine, intolerance etc Christians and someone

32
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Who follows Bible literally - Answers - quakers, congregationalism or something, phys something, methodosomething, fundamentalists

A

fundamentalists

33
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Something with FOX NEWS and what party they stand for

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republicans

34
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States where the Baptist religion is the dominant one

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I think it was Texas, Arkansas, and other ones, but Texas was the first option + Alabama, Luisiana?

35
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Which affiliation religious is more prone to be democratic

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christians of color and unaffiliated I believe

36
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Fill in - native american rights organization in 19th century that was created by Paiute

A

Ghost Dance movement

37
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What was the television referred to

A

family hearth

38
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The scripture: I lift my lamp beside the golden door! Is found on which monument -

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The Statue of Liberty

39
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Eisenhowers view on the economy

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Laissez-faire attitude towards the economy

40
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Something about what was one movement called “great…”

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the “Great Society” legislation

41
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The 14th amendment bans all but

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Double jeopardy

42
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Shortest period of time between a nomination to the Supreme Court and an election in U.S. history

A

Amy Coney Barrett

43
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Something about what is the constant problem that is being talked about in us

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Right to bear arms

44
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What didnt happen during George W. Bush

A

assassination of Bin Laden was by obama

45
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What isnt a part of the system of checks and balances

A

the executive branch, the judicial branch, and the legislative branch

46
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Something about what isnt a constitutional right ?

A

economic equality

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