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04/10/2011

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Term
What Supreme Court decision decided separate could not be equal?
Definition
Brown vs Board of Education
Term
What was LBJ's domestic program called?
Definition
Great Society
Term
Name 4 key pieces of LBJ sponsored legislation?
Definition
1. Medicare and Medicaid
2. Elementary and Secondary Education Act
3. New Immigration Law- Abolished the quotas from the 1920s. Also increased opportunities for Asians and Latin Americans to immigrate to the US.
4. National Foundation of the Arts and the Humanities
Term
What president caused an uproar by pardoning the Vietnam draft dodgers?
Definition
Carter
Term
What area of concern was raised by discoveries at Love Canal?
Definition
Environmental pollution
Term
What area of concern was raised at Three Mile Island?
Definition
Nuclear power accidents
Term
What did the Republicans call the adding of unemployment and inflation?
Definition
Misery index
Term
What did televangelists like Jerry Falwell call Nixon's silent majority?
Definition
Moral majority
Term
Upon becoming president, what group did Reagan fire?
Definition
Striking air traffic controllers
Term
What company was the object of the most famous antitrust case of the 80s?
Definition
AT&T
Term
What did the Democrats call the Reagan policies they claimed led to recession?
Definition
Reaganomics
Term
How many consecutive years if economic growth dud the US experience under Reagan?
Definition
7
Term
What woman led to the fight against the ERA and defeated it?
Definition
Phyllis Schlafly
Term
What was the nickname for young, upwardly mobile, professionals?
Definition
Yuppies
Term
What did the Immigration Act of 1986 do?
Definition
Legalized illegal aliens before 1982
Term
In what year was the worst stock market crash in history up to that time?
Definition
1987
Term
What was raised to cabinet level status in 1988?
Definition
Veteran's Administration
Term
Who wrote Bonfire of the Vanities?
Definition
Tom Wolfe
Term
Name 3 things a person below the poverty line does have counted as part of his income?
Definition
1. Dollar value of food stamps
2. Housing Subsidies
3. Health care programs
Term
What FDR New Deal program reimburses the victims of the 180 billion dollar savings and loan scandal?
Definition
FDIC
Term
What multi-faceted "victim" group had legislation passed that led to a litigation quagmire and was the name of the act?
Definition
Disabled Americans; Americans with Disabilities Act
Term
What third party candidate got 19% of the vote in 1992?
Definition
Ross Perot
Term
What did NAFTA allow?
Definition
Free trade among US, Mexico, and Canada
Term
What legislation allowed a person to go on extended leave for the birth of a child and then come back to the same job?
Definition
Family Leave Act
Term
In what year did Republicans for the first time since the 20s take control of both houses of Congress?
Definition
1995
Term
In 1988, who was the first incumbent vice president to be elected since 1840?
Definition
Bush
Term
Did Reagan veto or sign protectionist trade legislation?
Definition
Veto
Term
What was the group of newborns of 1946-49 called?
Definition
Baby boomers
Term
Name 2 dramatists, along with their work, that probed the issue of American middle class values
Definition
1. Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman
2. Edward Albee - Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Term
Who was the most famous Pop Art exponent?
Definition
Andy Warhol
Term
What does ZPG stand for?
Definition
Zero Population Growth
Term
Who wrote The Affluent Society?
Definition
J.L. Galbraith
Term
Who wrote The Organization Man?
Definition
William Whyte
Term
Who wrote Man in the Gray Flannel Suit?
Definition
Sloan Wilson
Term
Who wrote The Lonely Crowd?
Definition
David Riesman
Term
Who wrote The Power of Positive Thinking?
Definition
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
Term
Name a left-wing college group.
Definition
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS
Term
Who led the United Farm Workers and what did he organize as an activity?
Definition
Cesar Chavez; Delano Grape Strike
Term
What was the "reading your rights" Supreme Court decision?
Definition
Miranda vs Arizona
Term
What controversial constitutional amendment proposal failed to gain the sufficient number of states?
Definition
Equal Rights Amendment
Term
What topic was the focus of the Wounded Knee demonstration?
Definition
Militant action supporting self
determination
Term
What was the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion?
Definition
Roe vs Wade
Term
What topic did the Bakke decision deal with?
Definition

Reverse discrimination in the acceptance to college (Affirmative Action)

 

Term
In 1965, LBJ issued an order to hire more minorities and women. What did this later become known as?
Definition
Affirmative action
Term
Give 3 black authors and their work?
Definition
1. Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
2. James Baldwin - The Fire Next Time
3. Richard Wright- Native Son
Term
Give the title and author of the landmark feminist book of 1963.
Definition
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
Term
Give the title and author for the book that was a psychological study of American society and "inner" and "other" directed people.
Definition
The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman
Term
Give 4 provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act.
Definition

1. Outlawed Closed Shop Policy

2. Required unions to give 60 days notice to state before they strike (60 day cooling off period)

3. Gave the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board power to seek injunctions against employers or unions

4. Authorized individual states to outlaw union security clauses

Term
Give 4 major topics of the 1968 State of the Union message.
Definition
1. Crime
2. Employment
3. Poverty
4. Decaying cities
Term
How did Tom Wolfe describe the 70s?
Definition
The Me Decade
Term
What term did Arthur Schlesinger use to describe the Nixon presidency?
Definition
“Imperial Presidency”
Term
What did the G.I bill offer?
Definition
1. education benefit
2. low interest government backed loans for houses and to start businesses
3. GI mortgage
Term
Did Truman veto Taft-Hartley?
Definition
Veto
Term
Who was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during most of the Eisenhower years?
Definition
Warren
Term
In Eisenhower's farewell address, what did he say we must guard against?
Definition
Military Industrial Complex
Term
What was the nickname of JFK's domestic program?
Definition
New Frontier
Term
How did JFK get the steel operators to rescind their price increases?
Definition
He put heavy pressure on U.S. Steel president and other steel executives
Term
What did Gerald Ford's WIN buttons stand for?
Definition
Whip Inflation Now
Term
What tool did the Supreme Court use to insure integrated schools?
Definition
Busing
Term
What woman led the fight against feminist activities?
Definition
Schlafly
Term
What crusader inspired the Traffic and Highway Safety Acts?
Definition
Ralph Nader
Term
What scandal undid the Republican administration in 1974?
Definition
Watergate Scandal
Term
What governor of Alabama stood in the doorway of the University of Alabama to prevent black students from entering?
Definition
George Wallace
Term
What committee was Stokely Carmichael a member of when he preached Black Power?
Definition
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Term
List, in order, the presidents between FDR's death and Reagan.
Definition
1. Truman
2. Eisenhower
3. JFK
4. Johnson
5. Nixon
6. Ford
7. Carter
8. Reagan
Term
What was Eisenhower's most influential domestic initiative, according to the text?
Definition
Interstate Highway
Term
What were 3 major negative effects of the interstate highway program?
Definition
1. Made a lot of noise
2. Split up towns
3. Created white flight from cities
Term
What overturned Plessy vs Ferguson?
Definition
Brown vs Board of Education
Term
What was ironic about the Supreme Court's order to desegregate "with all deliberate speed."?
Definition
It took them 20 years
Term
Into what town did Eisenhower send troops in order to desegregate schools?
Definition
Little Rock, Arkansas
Term
What was the 22nd Amendment?
Definition
2 term limit for president and that if you take over presidency from vice presidency it counts as long as its more than 2 years
Term
What were the 4 presidential candidates in the 1948 election?
Definition
Dewey, Thurmond, Wallace, Truman
Term
What was the nickname given to Truman's domestic policy?
Definition
Fair Deal
Term
What were 2 major beliefs of "modern Republicanism" as proposed by Eisenhower?
Definition
1. Fiscally conservative
2. Adjust the New Deal
Term
What was the socio-economic impact of the Interstate Highway Program?
Definition
White people moved out of the cities
Term
Who was the senator who brought anti-communist investigations to a fever pitch?
Definition
Joseph McCarthy
Term
What eventually happened politically to McCarthy?
Definition
Censured- Senate voted to express disapproval of the senator
Term
What was the key civil rights oriented Supreme Court decision in 1954, and what previous decision did it overturn?
Definition
Brown vs Board of Education overturned Plessy vs Ferguson
Term
What 2 tactics did MLK use to fight racial discrimination in the South?
Definition
1. Sit ins
2. Marches
Term
Who was Eisenhower VP from 53-61?
Definition
Nixon
Term
Who was the Democratic candidate for president in 52 and 56?
Definition
Adali Stevensens
Term
What were the "right to work" laws allowing people to do
Definition
Not join a union
Term
What was TV first of the 1960 election
Definition
Nixon and Kennedy debate
Term
What 2 states were added in 1959?
Definition
Alaska & Hawaii
Term
What 2 labor unions united in 1959?
Definition
CIO & AFL
Term
What were 3 points of the Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959?
Definition
1. Severe punishment if federal officials misuse funds
2. It gave more power to the states
3. banned secondary boycotts
3. communists or convicted criminals could not become officers of the union
Term
What were 3 obstacles Kennedy had to overcome in his 1960 campaign?
Definition
1. Being a Catholic
2. Being young
3. He was unknown
Term
In 1947, what sport was integrated and what was the name of the athlete involved?
Definition
Baseball; Jackie Robinson
Term
What did HUAC stand for?
Definition
House UN-American Activities Committee
Term
What Congress men gained fame from Hiss-Chambers case?
Definition
Nixon
Term
What cabinet department was created during the Eisenhower administration?
Definition
Health Education and Welfare
Term
What legislation was passed in response to Russian space achievements?
Definition
National Defense Education Act (NDEA)
Term
About how long did it take for school desegregation to be enforced?
Definition
20 years
Term
What was the organized group of old people called?
Definition
Grey Panthers
Term
What is the region from VA thru FL and TX to CA called?
Definition
Sun Belt
Term
In the 70s and 80s most jobs were no longer created in the industrial sector of our economy. In what sector were these new jobs created
Definition
Service Sector
Term
Were the percentage of union workers decreasing or increasing in the 70s and 80s?
Definition
Decreasing
Term
Other than anti-racist policies, what else did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibit besides racism?
Definition
Gender and religion
Term
LBJ issues an executive order to hire more minorities and women. What did this later become known as?
Definition
Affirmative action
Term
What was the name of the decision that said one's admission to college could not be base on racial identification alone?
Definition
Bakke vs. Regents of the University of California
Term
What does AIM stand for?
Definition
American Indian Movement
Term
What are Chicanos and Braceros?
Definition
Mexican-Americans and Mexican laborers working in the U.S
Term
What did Newton Minnow describe TV as?
Definition
Vast wasteland
Term
What does WASP stand for?
Definition
White Anglo Saxon Protestant
Term
Who designed the Guggenheim Museum in New York?
Definition
Frank Lloyd Wright
Term
Who was most noted for "abstract expressionism"?
Definition
Jackon Pollack
Term
In 1973, what department's budget passed that of the Department of Defense?
Definition
Health and Human Services
Term
Name three books and their authors in which conformity in American society is the subject
Definition
The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman The Organization Man by William Whyte The Man in the Gray Flannel by Sloan Wilson
Term
Name two novelists and their works who were known as realists
Definition
Norman Mailer- The Village Voice Herman Wouk- The Winds of War Arthur Miller- Death of a Salesman
Term
What philosophy from the Plessy decision did the 54 SC decide was not valid?
Definition
Separate but equal
Term
What civil rights leader gained prominence because of the Montgomery bus boycott?
Definition
Martin Luther King
Term
What was the name of the lady who sparked the bus boycott?
Definition
Rosa Parks
Term
What did the Roe V. Wade decision in 1973 say?
Definition
- Abortion is okay during first trimester
- Right to privacy
Term
What strategy did Ike use to deny McCarthy information?
Definition
Executive privilege
Term
Name a moderate civil rights group.
Definition
NAACP
Term
What were the 5 dominant domestic issues in post WWII?
Definition
1. Labor Union
2. Civil Rights
3. Economic
4. Role of Government
5. Feminism
6. mass movement to Suburbia
Term
Name 4 areas Reagan were involved in?
Definition
1. Lowering federal tax
2. Fired air traffic controllers
3. Welfare reform
4. Veto protectionist trade bill
5. Social issues
Term
What did those who rejected the established oriented New Deal left call themselves?
Definition
The New Left
Term
What were the religious right called?
Definition
Moral Majority
Term
What were the blacks called who defied the Jim Crow laws?
Definition
Freedom riders
Term
What were 3 domestic acts that dealt with children?
Definition
1. Aid to family with dependent children
2. National defense education
3. Secondary education act
Term
Who was the largest "minority" group?
Definition
Women
Term
What Nixon call the policy in which power funds and responsibility would flow from Washington to the states?
Definition
New Federalism
Term
Who inspired the highway and traffic safety acts?
Definition
Ralph Nader
Term
What was the theme song of the civil rights movement?
Definition
We shall overcome
Term
What area of concern did the Civil Right Act of 1957 and CRA of 1960 deal with?
Definition
Voting for blacks
Term
What is de facto segregation?
Definition
Segregation especially in school that happens “by fact” but is not required by law
Term
What lawyer who later became a Supreme Court justice argued black civil rights cases before the Supreme Court?
Definition
Thurgood Marshall
Term
Who led the bus boycott of Montgomery, Alabama?
Definition
Martin Luther King Jr.
Term
What civil rights activist technique was used to protest segregated Southern lunch counters?
Definition
Sit-in
Term
Whom did Eisenhower appoint to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
Definition
Earl Warren
Term
Did Ike’s Supreme Court appointment have a strict or loose interpretation of the Constitution?
Definition
Strict
Term
In what two areas did the GI Bill offer benefits to veterans?
Definition
Education and Housing
Term
What did American households have more of than running water or indoor toilets?
Definition
Televisions
Term
What was the “lost generation” of the 20s replaced by in the 1950s?
Definition
Beatniks
Term
What did Jack Kerouac write?
Definition
On the Road, The Subterraneans, Big Sur, Visions of Cody, Visions of Gerard
Term
What was Kennedy’s program of proposals called?
Definition
The New Frontier
Term
What did Eisenhower warn about in his farewell address?
Definition
Military industrial complex
Term
What book did JFK write?
Definition
Profiles in Courage
Term
What was JFK’s most famous quote in his inaugural?
Definition
"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country."
Term
What was the issue that JFK had with US steel?
Definition
Pressured the steel industry into reversing price increases that he considered dangerously inflationary.
Term
What did JFK have in common with Coolidge and later Reagan?
Definition
Tax cuts
Term
Was JFK successful in getting Medicare into law?
Definition
No
Term
what were blacks called who defied Jim Crowe in interstate bus terminals
Definition
Freedom Riders
Term
what did JFK have to do to insure black James Meredith’s entrance into the U of Miss?
Definition
Send federal troops
Term
Name two more militant black groups
Definition
Black Panther Party, Republic of New Africa
Term
What was the name of Martin Luther king’s group?
Definition
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Term
What was the theme song for the civil rights movement?
Definition
A Change Is Gonna Come
Term
What did James Baldwin write?
Definition
Go Tell It on the Mountain,
Notes of a Native Son
Giovanni's Room
Another Country
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone,
Term
What event did MLK give his “I have a dream” speech at?
Definition
August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington
Term
What was the date of JFK’s assassination?
Definition
12:30 p.m. on Friday, November 22, 1963
Term
What Muslim Leader was assassinated in 1965?
Definition
Malcolm X
Term
How did southern Senators generally delay Civil Rights legislation?
Definition
Filibuster
Term
With what country did Nixon open trade in 1971 and what was his form of diplomacy called?
Definition
China.
Ping Pong Diplomacy.
Term
In what area did Truman bar segregation?
Definition
Armed Forces
Term
What did the McCarran Act deal with
Definition
National safety and individual liberties- Domestic Act - no one can support a communist government or get employed by one
Term
What amendment was proposed in 1972 and eventually was defeated
Definition
Equal Rights Amendment
Term
Give the title and author of the modern day muckraker of the military industrial complex
Definition
Ralph Nader- Unsafe at Any Speed
Term
Name an author and title of a novel about adolescent problems in the US
Definition
J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
Term
What novel based on an actual event in slave days did William Styron write
Definition
The Confessions of Nat Turner
Term
What was the name given to northerners going to south Civil rights demonstrations
Definition
Positive- Freedom Riders Negative- Outside Agitators
Term
What did Eisenhower do when Arkansas governor Orval Faubes tried to deny black students entry into Little Rocks's Central High School?
Definition
He sent federal troops
Term
What did the McCarran-Walter Act deal with?
Definition
Restricting immigration because of communism
Term
Give several usefully descriptive facts about demographic evolution of the cities from the 40's to the 80's
Definition
Whites moved away from the cities into suburbs while blacks moved to northern cities because of the racism and lack of economic opportunity in the south
Term
What did Detractors blame Spock's Baby and Child Care book for?
Definition
the Hippie generation
Term
What was the name of the group investigating the Kennedy assassination?
Definition
The Warren Commission
Term
Who was the Republican Candidate in 1964?
Definition
Barry Goldwater (the conservative)
Term
What book did the Republican candidate in 64 (Goldwater) wright that attracted many followers?
Definition
Conscience of a conservative
Term
What was the only section of the country that Johnson lost in the 1964 election?
Definition
The South
Term
Name three major legislative achievements of the Great Society (Johnson Administration)
Definition
1. Medicare
2. Medicaid
3. Eradicated the quota laws of the 20’s
4. elementary and secondary education
5. public housing
6. crime prevention
7. housing
Term
Who was the first black cabinet member?
Definition
Dr. Robert C. Weaver
Term
What section of Los Angeles was infamous for its riots in 1965?
Definition
Watt Neighborhood
Term
What did the Kerner commission say?
Definition
The reason for the riots was because of the lack of economic opportunity for blacks in American society.
Term
What cabinet level position was creates in the Johnson administration?
Definition
The department of housing and urban development and the Department of transportation
Term
What coalition managed to get the Civil Rights act of 1964 passed?
Definition
Republicans and northern democrats
Term
Who was the first Black associate Justice of the Supreme Court?
Definition
Thurgood Marshall
Term
What two political figures were assassinated in 1968?
Definition
Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
Term
Who was the most successful third party candidate in 1968
Definition
George Wallace
Term
Name three Supreme Court decisions regarding the rights of the accused and what each one said
Definition
1. Gideon vs. Wainwright - the accused has a right to a lawyer evenif he cannot afford it
2. Escobedo vs. Illinois - the accused has the right to remain silent until a lawyer is present
3. Miranda vs. Arizona - the accused has a right to a lawyer even during questioning by the police (also the police must inform the accused of his rights)
Term
Name five black civil rights leaders and one achievement or group they are associated with
Definition
1. Martin Luthar King - founded SCLC, Montgomery bus boycott
2. WEB Du Bois - NAACP
3. Booker T Washington - Atlanta address
4. Thurgood Marshall - first supree court Black
5. Chisolm - first Black woman in house of Reps
Bond - Part of SNCC
Term
Name four specific areas that civil rights acts addressed
Definition
1. Education
2. Voting
3. Labor/Employment
4. Public Segregation
Term
What did the 1962 Trade Expansion Act give the president power to do?
Definition
it gave the president unprecedented authority to negotiate the reduction of tariff rates in order to increase trade
Term
Who was the founder of NOW
Definition
Betty Friedan
Term
What area of the world did the Immigration Act of 1965 favor
Definition
Asia, Central America, and South America
Term
What do the following stand for: SNCC, SCLC, CORE, and what did they all have in common
Definition
SNCC - Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
SCLC - Southern Christian Leadership Conference
CORE - Congress of Racial Equality
- All organizations for the Civil Rights Movement
Term
What was Nixon’s response to inflation pressures
Definition
Price Freeze/ Price Controls
Term
Name two leading authors of the “beat” generation
Definition
1. Ginsberg
2. Kerouac
Term
What woman led the fight against the amendment proposal
Definition
Phyllis Schlafley
Term
What was the Decision of the Bakke Case?
Definition
College Admission cannot only take Race into account
Term
What cabinet level posts were created in the Carter administration
Definition
The Department of Energy and the Department of Education
Term
Name four presidents and what they did to advance civil rights
Definition
1. Truman - Desegregated the Army
2. Eisenhower - First to use federal troops to protect Black rights
3. LBJ - Passed the voting rights act, the civil rights act of 1964 and the 14th amendment (poll tax)
4. Kennedy - CEEO
Term
What was the main domestic focus of politics from 1974 to 1975
Definition
Watergate
Term
What was Jimmy Carter’s controversial decision relating to the ended Vietnam War
Definition
He pardoned the draft dodgers
Term
What did Reagan do with the grain Embargo against the Soviet Union?
Definition
Lifted it
Term
Who twice ran for president against Eisenhower?
Definition
Adlai Stevenson
Term
What were several economic results of the baby boom?
Definition
More emphasis on children and more education…
Term
What key Demographic change occurred during the 1950s?
Definition
Whites started moving to suburbs while blacks moved to the cities
Term
Who were the contestants for president in the election of 1960?
Definition
JFK and Nixon
Term
What were two accomplishments of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Definition
No gender discrimination and no race discrimination
Term
Name 4 "Minority" groups and their locations where they actively pursued civil rights
Definition
1. Blacks - mainly in the south 2. Woman - everywhere 3. Indians - in their reservations and outside of them 4. Hispanics - everywhere
Term
Who was the leader of the Black Muslims? What did he write?
Definition
Elijah Muhammad - how to eat to live and the fall of America
Term
Name two Extreme Radical blacks and their groups
Definition
1. Elijah Muhammad - Nation of Islam
2. Carmichael- SNCC
Term
What was the document of the SDS?
Definition
Port Huron statement
Term
Who wrote The Power Elite?
Definition
C. W Mills
Term
what were called "beatnicks" in the 50s were not called what?
Definition
Hippies
Term
What were three musical artists who gave lyrics to the counterculture?
Definition
1. Bob Dylan
2. Bob Marley
3. The Grateful Dead
Term
who won the election of 1968?
Definition
Nixon
Term
What third party candidate actually won electoral votes and why?
Definition
Wallace because everyone was getting tired of the anti war protests desegregation and the riots
Term
what was "Stagflation"?
Definition
Stagnation and Inflation during Nixon's time
Term
What president suspended the convertibility of dollars to gold?
Definition
Nixon
Term
What presidential administration created the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupation Safety and Health Administration?
Definition
Nixon
Term
What was AFDC?
Definition
Aid to Families with Dependent children - provided financial assistance to families with low or no income
Term
What was CETA?
Definition
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act - trained and gave people jobs
Term
What did Nixon call those Americans that did not protest out in the streets?
Definition
Silent Majority
Term
Whom did Nixon appoint as Chief justice?
Definition
Burger
Term
Was Burger more conservative or more liberal than his predecessor?
Definition
Conservative
Term
What was Swan Vs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg about and what was its decision?
Definition
decided that busing is legal and a good way to interrogate all schools and give everyone equal educations opportunities despite geographical locations
Term
What was NY Times vs. U.S. about and what was its decision?
Definition
NY times can print the pentagon papers and give government secrets to the public without the censure of the government because the first amendment protects their rights
Term
What did U.S Vs. Nixon say the limitations of executive privilege were?
Definition
Executive privilege doesn’t apply to covering up criminal activity
Term
What unique situation in American history arose with Ford as president and Rockefeller as Vice-President?
Definition
Gerald Ford was the first president not to be elected either vice president or president because Agnew resigned and then Ford chose Rockefeller as his VP
Term
Who defeated ford in the election of 1976?
Definition
Carter
Term
Was Nixon impeached?
Definition
No
Term
What college campus saw shootings by National Guard troops of rioters who were throwing rocks?
Definition
Kent State
Term
What Vice President had to resign from office?
Definition
Agnew
Term
who was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court?
Definition
Sandra Day O'Conner
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