1. American Culture and Society Review
Week 9

2. 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?

3. 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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5. 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

6. Name the three branches of government and their main purpose
Question
Name the three branches of government and their main purpose

7. 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

8. Question
What is the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution?

9. 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

10. Question
What are the requirements to run for president?

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

12. Bonus +10 pts – How many Amendments form the Bill of Rights?
Question
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?

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

14. Question
Explain the difference between the primaries and caucuses, general election, and electoral college election.

15. 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)

16. Question
What were the two sides in the Civil War and what were they fighting over?

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

18. Question
What does abolition mean?

19. 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.

20. Question
What is the Underground Railroad?

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

22. Question
Did slaves count as part of the state population in the House of Representatives? If so, how much?

23. Answer 2 – 40
Yes
3/5 a person

24. Question
What is the difference between the Emancipation Proclamation and the 14th Amendment? Is there a difference?

25. 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

26. Question
What are Jim Crow laws?

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

28. 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.

29. Answer 3 – 20
Maya Angelou

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

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

32. Question
Name two supreme court cases that influenced “separate but equal” laws.

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

34. What did the Civil Rights Act do?
Question
What did the Civil Rights Act do?
Bonus What year was it signed and who signed it?

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

36. Question
Explain the Melting Pot/Salad Bowl metaphor.

37. 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

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

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

40. Question
What are Ellis Island and Angel Island? Why are they important?

41. 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.

42. Question
Why are standardized tests controversial in the U.S.?

43. 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.

44. Question
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?

45. 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.

46. Question
Is Thanksgiving a religious holiday?

47. Answer 5 – 10 No

48. Question
Name two activities one might participate in at a Halloween party.

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

50. Question
When and how do people start celebrating Christmas? What is the actual date of Christmas?

51. 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

52. Question
Which two federal holidays are on either end of summer?

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

54. Question
What is the name and the day of the holiday where an animal determines the weather for the coming 6 weeks?

55. Answer 5 – 50
Groundhog’s Day, February 2