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05/27/2009

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Term
The 1947 California case Mendez v. Westminster
concerned which of the following?
Definition
Segregated schools
Term
Senator Joseph McCarthy dominated the
American media and Congress during the early
1950s. McCarthy’s rise to power was aided
most by
Definition
the electoral success of the Republican Party
in 1952
Term
The 1970s and 1980s were characterized by a
shift in population from the
Definition
Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes region
Term
Sociologists Robert and Helen Lynd’s
Middletown: A Study in Contemporary
American Culture (1929) is a classic community
study that
Definition
analyzed the effects of cultural and
economic change on a Midwestern city
Term
Which of the following was active in the antilynching
movement?
Definition
Ida B. Wells
Term
the historical belief that the United States was destined and divinely ordained by the God of Christianity to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean.
Definition
Manifest Destiny
Term
In what case did the supreme court uphold a law prohibiting the burning of draft cards.
Definition
united states v. o'brien
Term
What case strongly affirmed the freedom of press amendment?
Definition
Near v. Minnesota (1931)
Term
Who established the Freedmen's Bureau?
Definition
Abraham Lincoln
Term
began as a protest against the general state of culture and society, and in particular, the state of intellectualism at Harvard and the doctrine of the Unitarian church taught at Harvard Divinity School
Definition
transcendentalism
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