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1. Highlight topics, dates, names, or terms.2. Read the passage. What is the Main Idea? Write it in
the margin.3. Evaluate the answer choices.4. MAKE A DECISION.
Gives president all authority to make war.
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS
2. Understand major social problems in America
Also…Immigrant problems in citiesChild LaborDiscrimination/Jim Crow Era/Equality
CIVIL RIGHTS/HUMAN RIGHTS
4. Understand the social change of Civil Rights movement and impact on other groups
NOT JUST AFRICAN AMERICANSWomen’s RightsNative Americans
Hispanic AmericansAmericans with Disabilities
IMPORTANT PHRASES:• “Persistence of Poverty” – constantly low
income levels due to low wages, poor educational background, other factors Continuing problem in inner cities from Gilded Age until today
• “War on Poverty” - LBJ’s attempts Welfare, Head Start, other Great Society programs
IMPORTANT PHRASES:• “Fundamentalism”
– Early 1900’s Christian belief in a LITERAL interpretation of the Bible
– Creationism v Evolution – “Right v Wrong”
– Scopes Trial 1925• “Traditionalism”
– Conservative belief in Christian principles
• “Modernism”– Belief in Liberal interpretation
of religion– Reasoning and Science take a
priority over rules and morals of religion
• “Post-Modernism”– Reasoning is different in every
culture, making truth relative (different) for each person
– Science creates the ideal
• “Feminism”– Belief that women should
have equal political, economic, cultural, and social rights
IMPORTANT PHRASES:
• “Passive Resistance”– Also known as “Civil Disobedience”– Nonviolence
• Sit – In Protests– Rosa Parks, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Freedom
Riders, March from Selma to Montgomery, Lunch Counter Protests, Birmingham Protests, March on Washington