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(3 words) The US and its foreign policies are still significantly conditioned by the September 11th 2001 attacks on New York and Washington initiating c__ m__ a___ in Iraq and Afghanistan.
2
The interests of separate ethnic groups or minorities are equally valid. Synonym – pluralism.
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assimilation of different ethnic groups into a shared, Anglo-American-based identity). Implies absolute national unity. (p13)
4
the doctrine that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities. It tries to unite the people under ideal versions of Americanness (p5)
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(2 words) Americans have a distrust of _____ _______________. It describes the public sector considered to be excessively large or regulating matters considered to be private or personal, or a dominant federal government that seeks to control the authority of local institutions - an example being the overriding of state authority in favor of federal legislation.
6
(three words) Also known as the Second Indochina War,thethe Resistance War Against or simply the American War, was a war that also occurred in Laos and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. (The book states 1960s – 1975: page 2)
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The ____________ of the President of the United States is a ceremony to mark the commencement of a new four-year term of a president of the United States.
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(Two words or three) Politicians in the febrile atmosphere of this place promote their own consituency legislation as a response to local and regional pressures.
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racial ___________ is believed to still occur (page 7)
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(p15) A way of binding the ethnically diverse population by using the national flag, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution etc.
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Immigrants and imported Black slaves have experienced difficulties of ______ into the host society. (page 7) As opposed to assimilation (implying absolute national identity), _____ occurs at levels of partial and more “natural” blending or mixing. (page 13) It is argued that degrees of separateness and __________ vary between ethic groups and that absolute social assimilation is both undesirable and impossible. (page 14) The 2000 census indicated that natural forces of ______________ had grown and that a sense of civic commonality or a distinctive American nationalism had increased. (page 15) Intermarriage, education and upward mobility could also be argued to weaken many Americans’ bonds with their immigrant roots particularly in the later generations. (page 17)
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(2 words ____-____) distrust of government (page 15)
13
(two words) Between the 1950s and 1960s _________ _______ campaigns took place, a period of doubt and conflict (page 2).
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(2 words) A metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements "melting together" into a harmonious whole with a common culture or vice versa, for a homogeneous society becoming more heterogeneous through the influx of foreign elements with different cultural background with a potential creation of disharmony with the previous culture. Historically, it is often used to describe the assimilation of immigrants to the United States.
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increasing government ________ and bureaucracies have arguably undermined individual autonomy.
16
low turnout and registration to elections may be due to this (see p22)
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(The great) _______________ The first took place bewteen 1730s and 1740s (pxxi) (religious ferment reached a peak)and a religious revival swept across the frontier in the second one between 1820s and 1880s.(pxxii). These were periods where religiosity was low and needed to be restored.
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Traditionally, immigrants have often been analysed in terms of “______ groups” (page 6)
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(p14) Ethnic ________ as opposed to homogenization is an acceptance of heterogeneity (difference) and an adherence to roots, which has a certain acceptance in American society.
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(three words)acceptance of legal rules applicable to all individuals and institutions irrespective of status or wealth (p5)
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(2 words) Critics say the US should realistically be regarded ethnically, culturally and ideologically as a “mosaic”, “____ _____”, “pizza” or “stew mix” rather than a “melting pot” (p14).
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(2 words) A name for the American flag (p15)
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(page 10) 70% may register to vote but only an average of 54% of them vote (so there is a low _______) suggesting alienation from the political process, a feeling that power is in the hands of a political elite at state and Washington levels and that politicans do not consider the concerns of ordinary voters.
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Often occurs in institutionalized form (page 7) bwteen settled groups, Native Americans, African Americans and immigrants
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