American Culture and Society Review Week 9 https://www.pinterest.com/TDSocial/social-studies-decor/

Question of the Day Class Survey On a piece of paper please answer the following questions: 1. What are two things you liked about this class? 2. What are two things you would change about this class?

Topics to Study for the Final Exam Founding documents and Foundations of the U.S. government Government and voting systems Immigration The Civil War and History of Slavery The Civil Rights Movement Holidays The Education System

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Foundations of Gov’t and Voting System Slavery and the Civil War The Civil Rights Movement Education and Immigration Holidays 10 20 30 40 50

Name the three branches of government and their main purpose Question 1 - 10 Name the three branches of government and their main purpose

Answer 1 – 10 Executive – administers and proposes laws, negotiates treaties, appoints ambassadors etc. Legislative – writes and approves the laws, passes national budget etc. Judicial – enforces and interprets the laws

Question 1 - 20 What is the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution?

Answer 1 – 20 Declaration of Independence – 1776 declared independence from Great Britain and stated why Constitution – 1787 states the fundamental values and laws of the United States and provides framework for government

Question 1 - 30 What are the requirements to run for president?

Answer 1 – 30 Be at least 35 years old Have resided in the U.S. for 14 years Natural born citizen

Bonus +10 pts – How many Amendments form the Bill of Rights? Question 1 - 40 What are the freedoms given by the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights? Bonus +10 pts – How many Amendments form the Bill of Rights?

Answer 1 – 40 Freedom of Speech, Religion, Assembly, and Petition Bonus - 10

Question 1 - 50 Explain the difference between the primaries and caucuses, general election, and electoral college election.

Answer 1 – 50 Primaries and Caucuses – each state holds them to elect a candidate for their party (Republican or Democrat) General Election – every person votes for one candidate for President Electoral College – system of 538 electors who vote based on the general election in their state (assigned by population)

Question 2 - 10 What were the two sides in the Civil War and what were they fighting over?

Answer 2 – 10 Union and Confederacy Right to end or continue slavery, state vs. federal power, economic power in westward expansion

Question 2 - 20 What does abolition mean?

Answer 2 – 20 Abolition is getting rid of something entirely In the U.S. it refers to the Abolition movement which fought to Abolish slavery.

Question 2 - 30 What is the Underground Railroad?

Answer 2 – 30 The network of safe houses and routes for escaping slaves throughout the north and south of the country during slavery.

Question 2 - 40 Did slaves count as part of the state population in the House of Representatives? If so, how much?

Answer 2 – 40 Yes 3/5 a person

Question 2 - 50 What is the difference between the Emancipation Proclamation and the 14th Amendment? Is there a difference?

Answer 2 – 50 Yes. Emancipation Proclamation – 1863 – during the Civil War, freed any slaves in the Union states 14th Amendment – 1865 – after the Civil War, abolished slavery

Question 3 - 10 What are Jim Crow laws?

Answer 3 – 10 Laws made by states segregating different aspects of public life like schools, restaurants, buses and transportation, bathrooms, water fountains etc.

Question 3 - 20 Who wrote this? You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise.

Answer 3 – 20 Maya Angelou

Question 3 - 30 Name one Civil Rights leader of the 1960s and say what they did and why they were important.

Answer 3 – 30 Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X Rosa Parks others?

Question 3 - 40 Name two supreme court cases that influenced “separate but equal” laws.

Answer 3 – 40 Plessy vs. Ferguson 1896 Brown vs. Board of Education 1954

What did the Civil Rights Act do? Question 3 - 50 What did the Civil Rights Act do? Bonus - +10 What year was it signed and who signed it?

Answer 3 – 50 Forbid by law any discrimination in voting, education, and other public facilities Signed in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 4 - 10 Explain the Melting Pot/Salad Bowl metaphor.

Answer 4 – 10 Melting pot – all different ingredients in the pot together = all different and diverse backgrounds becoming one country together Salad bowl – different ingredients make up one salad = different and diverse backgrounds make up one country

Question 4 - 20 Name the three types of schools in the U.S. (for grades K-12) and their main differences.

Answer 4 – 20 Public – basic education, tuition free Charter – mission based education, tuition free Private – privately funded education sometimes for specific purposes

Question 4 - 30 What are Ellis Island and Angel Island? Why are they important?

Answer 4 – 30 Ellis Island was the immigration center on the East Coast in NY and Angel Island was the immigration center on the West Coast in SF They are important because hundreds of thousands of immigrants passed through them during the 1900s.

Question 4 - 40 Why are standardized tests controversial in the U.S.?

Answer 4 – 40 Side 1 – standardized tests are needed in order to know how students and schools are doing Side 2 – standardized tests are given too often in schools and students are being over-tested.

Question 4 - 50 Is it ok in public schools, (according to the first amendment) to allow students to wear a t-shirt, wrist band, neckwear or other clothing expressing a religious belief? Why or why not?

Answer 4 – 50 Yes. This does not violate the first amendment which states that freedom of religion and expression are basic rights for every American. Wearing clothes or shirts that express religious beliefs do not force or prevent anyone from practicing a certain religion.

Question 5 - 10 Is Thanksgiving a religious holiday?

Answer 5 – 10 No

Question 5 - 20 Name two activities one might participate in at a Halloween party.

Answer 5 – 20 Bobbing for apples Donut eating contest Mummy toilet paper wrapping Haunted houses Etc.?

Question 5 - 30 When and how do people start celebrating Christmas? What is the actual date of Christmas?

Answer 5 – 30 As soon as Thanksgiving ends/in the beginning of December, people put up Christmas lights, get a Christmas tree, start playing Christmas music etc.. The actual day of Christmas is December 25th

Question 5 - 40 Which two federal holidays are on either end of summer?

Answer 5 – 40 Memorial Day (May 31st) and Labor Day (first Mon in Sept)

Question 5 - 50 What is the name and the day of the holiday where an animal determines the weather for the coming 6 weeks?

Answer 5 – 50 Groundhog’s Day, February 2