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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.

Segregation in public schools. Do we continue it, or end it?

CONSUMERISM = attachment to materialistic possessions

PP & ACA = OBAMACARE

CONTENT STRANDS Domestic Affairs Global Affairs Civil Rights/Human Rights Economics Culture

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS 2.Understand major social problems in America Also… Immigrant problems in cities Child Labor Discrimination/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 AMERICANS Women ’ s Rights Native Americans Hispanic Americans Americans 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

“Civil Liberties” & “National Security”