civilisation U.S dates
How much population in the US?
331 million
How much territory in the U.S?
10 million km2
What are the largest states in the US? (by order)
California, Texas, Florida, New York State
What is a multicultural society?
A society where you have different cultural groups regarding religion, ethnicity, race.
What is xenophobia?
A dislike or prejudice against people from other countries
Where do immigrants come from in the U.S?
Mexico, India, China
What are the two symbols that are important concerning immigration?
The Statue of Liberty and the Golden Gate Bridge
What is the American dream?
It is the idea that if you come to the U.S, you can be whatever you want and succeed at the moment you work hard enough.
How many states in the U.S?
50
How many territories in the U.S?
14
How many semi-sovereign Native reservations in the U.S?
326
What are the 4 different regions in the U.S?
The west, the midwest, the northeast and the south
What is capitalism?
The name of the economic system defined by private property and by the search of profit.
What is communism?
The name of the economic system defined by property being held by the community and by people not trying to make a profit.
What is a free market economy?
When the government is not involved in the economy, it does not act on regulation, it does not impose taxes. The market is free to evolve.
What is a government controlled economy?
When the government runs the economy and controls everything that is being done in the economy.
What is a mixed economy?
When the states intervenes, makes rules, imposes taxes but you still have a share of the people who wan get what they want without state intervention. There is some degree of intervention but the government doesn't control everything.
What is the GDP?
It is Gross Domestic Product. It is the measure that economists use to determine the size of an economy.
What is globalization?
The process by which goods, people, ideas travel around the world.
What was the new name of NAFTA in 2018?
US-Mexico-Canada Agreement
Why has the U.S a key role in the global financial system?
1- The international Monetary Fund
2- The world bank
3- The U.S $
What is a federation?
A country that consists of the union of a central government and smaller separate entities under it.
What are the three branches of government?
Legislative, executive, judiciary
What are the three levels of government?
Local, state, federal
1789?
U.S Constitution
1791?
Bill of Rights
First amendment (date and right)
1791: freedom of speech, press and religion
Second amendment (date and right)
1791: right to own and bear arms
13th amendment (date and right)
1865: abolition of slavery
14th amendment (date and right)
1868: equal protection of law, due process, birthright citizenship
15th amendment (date and right)
1870: suffrage cannot be denied based on color or race
18th amendment (date and right)
1919: prohibition of alcohol (until 1933)
19th amendment (date and right)
1920: women's suffrage
What are the 2 major parties in the U.S (+ animals)
The Democratic Party (donkeys) and the Republican Party (elephants)
What is a myth?
A fictional representation that a group of people has of a period, a fact, an idea, a character, its own origins.
What is American exceptionalism?
1- The U.S is a unique nation and a nation superior to other nations in the world.
2- The U.S has a mission to spread its values abroad, what makes it exceptional
What is the notion of Melting Pot?
The idea that immigrants should lose their immigrant culture and assmilate into the dominant white culture of the U.S
What is the notion of Salad Bowl?
It symbolizes multiculturalism, the idea that different religions, languages, ethnic groups, etc. can coexist in the same society without being forced to merge into one.
What is manifest destiny?
An idea invented in 1845 to justify the expansion westward. The idea was that the U.S had a God given mission to expand West and spread its values to what they call 'the primitive people of the West'.
What is the frontier?
A space that marks the limit between their civilisation and what they called "wilderness", where primitive people live.
What is the frontier myth?
Idea of an open space where no one rules the land and that this land is up to conquest, settlement.
What is the progressive era ? (+ dates)
1900-1917: a movement that tried to attenuate the excesses of capitalism and patronage
President from 1901-1909 + Party
Theodore Roosevelt, Republican
What did women fight for in the 1920s?
1- Prohibition of alcohol (1920-1933)
2- Suffrage (1920)
What is Jim Crow?
A system of racial segregation that existed in the South of the U.S from the 1870s to the 1960s. African Americans weren't allowed to use the same facilities as white people.
NAACP? (date, abbreviation)
National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (1909)
Who was the president who got the U.S into WW1 ? (name, date, party)
Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921, Democratic
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
It was formulated in 1823, it was an idea that Europe shold focus on the Eastern hemisphere whereas the U.S would not try to intervene in European affairs.
May 1915?
Sinking of the Lusitania
When did the U.S declare war (WW1)?
1917
1918?
Influenza epidemic
1919?
Treaty of Versailles
1920?
League of Nations
What period from 1919 to 1929?
The Roaring Twenties
When was the Russian revolution?
1917
When did the U.S add immigration quotas?
1924
What is the Great Migration (+ dates)?
The migration of AA away from the South to the North and west from the beginning of WW1 until 1970.
What is the New Negro Movement?
The idea that now that AA had moved away from the south, they were no longer submissive, they were going to fight for their rights. It is a movement about cultural affirmation, cultural proud.
Why was the 1920s a period of modernity?
1- idea of consumer culture
2- New woman movement
3- Rise of Hollywood
When was the KKK first created? When did it revive?
19tn century / 1915-1944
Which trial in the 1920s?
the Monkey Trial, about Darwin's theory of evolution.
What happened from 1919-1929?
The Great Depression
When did the stock market crash on Wall Street?
October 1929
Why was there a crash on Wall Street?
insufficient demand for goods --> speculation --> bursting of the financial bubble
consequences of the crash on Wall Street?
Mass unemployment, mass poverty, migrant workers
Who was president from 1929-1934?
President Hoover, Republican
What period from 1933 to 1939?
The New Deal
Who was president from 1933 to 1945?
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Democratic
Dates of WW2?
1941-1945
movement in the 1930s?
Isolationist movement
When did the Japanese attacks happened on Pearl Harbor?
December 7, 1941
President from 1945-1953?
President Truman, Democrat
President from 1953 to 1961?
President Eisenhower, Republican
When was the First Red Scare?
1917-1920
When was the Second Red Scare?
1947-1954?
What ideology appeared during the Second Red Scare?
McCarthyism
economic growth or crisis from 1945 to 1970?
Growth
When was the baby boom?
1945-1960s
What happenned in November 1963?
The assassination of President J.F.K in Dallas --> put an end to the period of prosperity in the US.
1954?
Brown VS. Board of Education
1957?
Little Rock Arkansas
1960
Freedom Rides
1960
Sit-in at Lunch counters
1963
March to Washington (I have a dream)
What ended the CRM?
Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965)
Dates of the Cold War?
1947-1991
What was the Truman Doctrine?
The doctrine of containment : the US should contain the influences of communism to stop the spread of the USSR and of communism around the world.
What wa the Marshall Plan?
The plan to rebuild Europe after WW2
When was the Korean War?
1950-1953
When was the Vietnam War?
1964-1973
1972?
Watergate scandal
two oil shocks?
1973 // 1979
What is globalization (+ which decade)
idea that trade (goods and exchange of people) is easier. (1990s)
1992?
NAFTA was signed (effective in 1994)
President from 1981-1989?
Ronald Reagan, Republican
What is polarization?
The political landscape in the U.S began to be + and + divided between Democrats and Republicans.
1973?
Roe V. Wade
When did the New Cold War begin?
1979 when the USSR invaded Afghanistan
What happened on November 9th, 1989
The Fall of the Berlin Wall.
1991?
Collapse of the USSR
What happened on September 9th, 2001?
the U.S was the victim of the most important terrorist attack
2008?
Great Recession
2004?
Katrina hurricane in 2004
Who was president from 2001 to 2009?
George W. Bush, Republican