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93 Cards in this Set
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Te 2 themes that dominated the half-century after the civil war were consolidation and |
expanding ethnic diversity |
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Riis says that the boundary of the Other Half runs through |
the tenements |
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Cahan several times suggests that to him America at first seemed bot |
to be genuine |
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According to Bok, the most priceless gift that any nation can offer is |
opportunity |
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Ross proposes that moral advancement can best be measured by the position |
of women |
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According to Kallen, "Americanization" signifies the disappearance of |
the external differences upon which race prejudice often feeds |
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The stuff and essence of nationality , as jallen says, is |
the array of forces for that likemindedness |
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Addams opens uHull House in order, she says, to live in a |
"really living world and refusing to be content with a shadowy intellectual or aesthetic reflection of it" |
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The ideaology of America as an Anglo-Saxon country began to develop at the same time that saw the arrival |
of the New Immigration |
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Sumner says that laissez-faire translates into plain English as |
Mind your own business |
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Because distances could be covered in less time, the Transportation Revolution in effect made the world |
smaller |
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At the start of the twentieth century, many Americans felt themselves |
advance |
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For the kind of fic tion he wanted to write, Henry James felt American society was |
too thin |
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Some of Duke Ellington's compositions left to space for |
improvisation |
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The sciences that Tennyson called "The Terrible Muses" were |
geology and astronomy |
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Henry Adams said that the "new American" was the "servant of the |
powerhouse" |
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The painter who felt that landscapes ought reveal a "heroic national identity" was |
Thomas Cole |
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A form of African expression incorporated into jazz was "call and |
response" |
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Washington says that "in all things social" whites and black can be as separate as |
the fingers of a hand |
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DuBois claims that the only true American music is |
the wild sweet melodies of the Negro slave |
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Hughes says that jazz is to him |
one of the inherent expressions of negro life in america |
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"The New Negro" is a phrase associated with |
Alain Locke |
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Alain Locke says that the Great Migration was a movement not just from rural to urban but from midieval to |
modern |
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A note lowered a half-step in a melodic line is said to be |
a blue note |
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Motely's Blues is a painting of people in a nightclub in |
Paris |
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Marcus Garvey founded the organization called |
Universal Negro Improvement Association UNIA |
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The so-called Second Industrial Revolution created products for |
the business and home |
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"An old bitch gone in the teeth" is a description of Western culture by |
Ezra Pound |
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"Few things are sadder" the narrator tells us |
"than the truly monstrous" |
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The object of the desire of near;y every male in the book is |
Faye Greener |
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Throughout the novel Tod Hackett is working in a painting he calls |
"The Burning of Los Angeles" |
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Tod thinks that the collection of old movie sets and props pn the back lot is a "history of civilization" in the form of a |
marine junkard |
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The newspapper clipping that Harry Greener carries with him is headlines |
Bedraggled Harlequinn |
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Earl Shoop is said to have a "resemblance to |
a mechanical drawing" |
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To Faye Greener's "egg-like self sufficiency" Tod Hacket responds with fantasies of |
rape |
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The bar at which the floor show features female impersonators iscalled |
Cinderella Bar |
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Faye Greener's age is |
seventeen |
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The only song Homer Simpson knowns is |
the Star Spangled Banner |
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Twentieth century America was characterized by, among other things, "an enourmous expansion of |
the middle class"/suburbia |
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Historian Kenneth Jackson called the suburbs the |
crabgrass frontier |
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Immigration of homosexuals was restricted by legislation passed by |
McCarran |
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During spring training JAckie Robinson stayed not in a hotel but in |
the home of a prominent negro family |
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In Tootle the most important lesson taught is |
staying on the rail no matter what, conformity |
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The "atomic hairdo" was a creation of |
GeeGee |
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In the 1950s Hughes says American Exceptionalism was fueled b |
paranoia |
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The only country with a word between thriteen and nineteen is |
the nited States |
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The assistant Attorney General who came to prominence during the red scare of the 20s was |
Hoover |
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In america in the 50s, to be different was to be |
suspect |
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According to Dr. King, the word "wait" meant |
never |
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Malcolm X insisted that there was no such thing as a nonviolent |
revolution |
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Carmichael argues that "physocological equality: for black people will be achieved by emphasizing the political achievements of |
the black community |
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Baker says that the only protection people have against violence or injustice in the long run is |
themselves |
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The spreme court ruled that segregating schools was inherently |
unconstitutional |
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The first black student to attend the University of Mississippi was |
James Meredith |
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The Birmingham poilice chief who ordered dogs and firehoses to be set on peaceful protestors was |
Bull Connor |
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Davis says that the black community must honor Malcolm X because "he was our |
prince, our own black shining prince" |
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Television first covered the civil rights struggle when it broadcast events from |
Little Rock |
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Malcolm X was beleived to be assassinated by |
the nation of Islam |
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Accroding to Betty Freidan, the silent question asked by middle-class Maerican women was |
"IS this all" |
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In the 50s and 60s, American society told a woman that is she was unhappy then "something must be wrong with |
her mairrage or herself" |
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The average age of those who served in Nam was |
nineteen |
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Marilyn Young reports that more Vietnam vets have committed suicide than |
died in it |
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Harrington observed that the "poor are politically |
invisible" |
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The SDS statement proposes that "the American Golden age was actually the |
decline of an era |
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Most hippies came from families that were "white, affluent, and |
middle class |
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Among the 681 demonstrators arrested at the MArch on the Pentagon was the writer whose book about it would earn a Pulitzer Prize |
Norman Mailer |
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Attitudes toward the war often revealed "a powerful sense of |
class grievance" |
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The name of the helicopter pilot who stopped the killing at Mai Lai was |
Army Warrant Hugh Thompson Jr. |
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The "surveillance powers" of the government were greatly expanded by the |
Patriot Act |
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President Reagan proposes that the American REvolution reversed the course of the government with the words |
"We the People" |
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Barber says that both Jihad and McWorld make war on |
the sovereign state |
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President Bush said that America is a country called to |
defend freedom |
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"Either you are with us" Bush said |
"or you are with the terrorists" |
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One of the forces driving globalization is "information |
technology" |
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The dissent in the Larry Hiibel Nevada Supreme Court case was written by |
Agosti |
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the "ordaining voice of the Constitution" Doctorow says is |
scriptural |
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Wright says that "our freedom depends on |
the sympathetic compreshension of the other" |
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As the Governemnt expands, Reagan said, |
liberty contracts |
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Cliff Dwellers was painted by |
George Bellows |
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Middle Class liberal Protestants describes those americans called |
Progressives |
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Social Darwinists tried to use evolutionary theory to justify |
economic and social inequalities |
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As the 20th century began, most Americans felt the country's greatests days were |
ahead |
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The mass movement of African Americans from North to South was called the |
great migration |
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The flowering of Intellectual and artistic talent among Blacks inthe 20s was called |
the Harlem renaissance |
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Hollywood experienced the "Golden Age" of movies during |
the 30s/great depression |
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In 1933 the American unemployment rate was |
25% |
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Nevada supported the 50s atomic testing for patriotic reasons and |
federal money |
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Rock and Roll began when white singers sand black songs for |
white audiences |
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In the 50s, American foreign policy was that Communism should be |
contained |
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The terms that expressed doubt about the validity of gov't and military fact/figures was |
the Credibility gap |
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Rosie the Riveter |
Cultural Icon; represents American women who worked in factories during WWII; women in the workforce |
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Jane Addams |
a pioneer settlement social worker; public philosopher; sociologist and author, leader in woman's suffrage and world peace. She helped turn the US towards issues of concern to mothers, the needs of children, world peace, and public health |
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Malcolm X |
Muslim minister and human rights activist. To admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks; detrators accused him of preaching violence |