Professional Documents
Culture Documents
(3 questions)
2. Market
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stg6Y3cg7KU
3. George H. W. Bush speech
4. 1th, 4th , 6th, 18th amendment ( given small passage, these amendment are for what?)
“I’ll let you guys engage in those comparisons,” Obama said in reference
to the president who resigned in disgrace in 1974. “You can go ahead
and read the history, I think, and draw your own conclusions.”
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark decision of the U.S.
Supreme Courtissued in 1896. It upheld the constitutionality of racial
segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were
equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal"
7. 948 Marshall Plan, a U.S. initiative to rebuild post-war Europe, begins.
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was
anAmerican initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave
over $12 billion (nearly $100 billion in 2016 US dollars) in economic assistance to
helprebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.
President Truman signed the act that became known as the Marshall Plan.
Participating countries included Austria, Belgium, Denmark,France,
West Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg,
theNetherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey.
8. Short term energy (1973 Opec Oil Embargo. Gasoline prices rise. Stock market falls.
Recession follows)
On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court issued its landmark Brown v. Board of
Education of Topeka ruling, which declaredthat
racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal. ... The New York
Times summarized the NAACP's case: “Their main thesis was that segregation,
of itself, was unconstitutional
10. May 17, 1954 | Supreme Court Declares School Segregation
11. us presidential election (graph)
12. entrenched meaning: establish, make inroads
define
embed
ensconce
fortify
ingrain
The Homestead Act, enacted during the Civil War in 1862, provided that any
adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S.
government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. Claimants were
required to “improve” the plot by building a dwelling and cultivating the land
14. Population ( graph)
15. Washington post, 28, 2012
16. Iron Law of Wages
The iron law of wages is a proposed law of economics that asserts that
real wages always tend, in the long run, toward the minimum wage necessary to
sustain the life of the worker. The theory was first named by Ferdinand Lassalle
in the mid-nineteenth century.
18. UN responsibility
The Responsibility to Protect (R2P or RtoP) is a global political commitment
which was endorsed by all member states of the United Nations at the 2005
World Summit in order to address its four key concerns to prevent genocide, war
crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
The international community, through the United Nations, also has
the responsibility to use appropriate diplomatic, humanitarian and other
peaceful means, in accordance with Chapters VI and VIII of the Charter, to help
protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes
against humanity.
19. Photo and passage (in the photo, black people are demonstrating and holding symbol. in the
symbol we march…other words can’t be seen)
20. Lyndon Johnson (Vietnam Dilemma …I don’t remember well)
Tribune News ServicesCHICAGO TRIBUNE
Clearly, however, Johnson was concerned and confused about the future
of U.S. involvement.
"There may be another coup, but I don't know what we can do. If there
is, I guess that we just -- What alternatives do we have then? We're not
going to send our troops in there, are we?" Johnson asks aide McGeorge
Bundy in a March 2 conversation.
21. I don’t remember the title but in the passage, they discuss to print text book
State right(demo)
Favored manufacturing and industry ( fed)
Strong national government(fed)
Favored famers and agriculture (demo)
.1870: 15th Amendment- the rights of the united
states to vote shall not be denied or abridged by
the united states or by any state on account of
race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
1920: 19th amendment-…(definition)
1964: 24th amendment-( the right of
….defination)
What was the mean object of these
amendments?
Ans; to extend and protect suffrage to certain
group of people. (This question is real test
because I remember it and got from video.)