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CH 203 Final UNR
Term | Definition |
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Cliff Dwellers was painted by | George Bellows |
Sumner says that laissez faire translates into plain English as | Mind your own business |
Middle Class liberal Protestants” describes those Americans called | Progressives |
Social Darwinists tried to use evolutionary theory to justify | economic and social inequities |
Riis says that the boundary of the Other Half runs through | The tenements |
As the 20th century began, most Americans believed that their country’s greatest days were | ahead |
The “stuff and essence of nationality,” Kallen says, is | the array of forces for and that like mindedness |
The photographs that illustrate How The Other Half Lives were taken by | Jacob Riis |
Addams opens Hull House in order, she says, to live in a | really living world and refusing to content with a shadowy intellectual or aesthetic reflection of it |
The ideology of America as an Anglo-Saxon country began to develop at the same time that saw the arrival of | new immigration |
Because distances could be covered in less time, the Transportation Revolution in effect made the world | Grow smaller |
Henry Adams said that the “new American” was the “servant of the | Power house |
The painter who felt that landscapes ought to reveal a “heroic national identity” was | Thomas Cole |
The Woman in White” was painted by | James A.M Whistler |
At the start of the twentieth century, many Americans felt themselves “instruments of | Advancement |
he “lowest common denominator of artistic taste” is | Appreciation of realism |
“Industrialized, urbanized, and commercialized” is an apt description of American at the turn of the | 20th |
A form of African expression incorporated into jazz was “call and | call and -response |
“In The Loge/At The Opera” was painted by | Marry Cassatt |
Some of Duke Ellington’s compositions left no space for | improvisations |
Jazz, the poet Langston Hughes says, is to him | The inherent expressions of negros in America |
The musician largely responsible for jazz’s emphasis on improvisation was | Louis Armstrong |
The mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North is called | the great migration |
Palmer Hayden, Archibarld Motely, Jr., and Jacob Lawrence were all | Painters |
“Blues” is a painting of people in a nightclub in the city of | Paris |
The New Negro” is a phrase associated with the writer | Alain Locke |
DuBois claims that the only true American music is | the wild sweet melodies of the negro slave |
The flowering of intellectual and artistic talent among African Americans in the 1920s is called | the Harlem Renaissance |
Washington says that “in all things social” whites and blacks can be as separate as | Fingers |
Marcus Garvey founded the organization called | Universal Negro Improvement Association |
The Day of the Locust ends with a riot at a | Kahns Persian Palace Theater |
Hollywood experienced the “Golden Age” of movies in the decade of | The great Depression |
Few things are sadder,” the narrator tells us, “than the | Truly monstrous |
Tod thinks that the collection of old movie sets and props on the back lot is a “history of civilization” in the form of a | -Marine junkyard |
In 1933, the American unemployment figure stood at | 25% |
throughout the novel Tod Hackett is working on a painting he calls | Los Angeles on Fire |
Nathanael West observed that in his novel there is “no one to | root for |
Faye Greener’s age is | 17 |
Bedraggled Harlequin” is a newspaper headline for a review of a performance by | Harry Greener |
The only song Homer Simpson knows is | Star Spangled Banner |
Tootle” taught American children to | Stay on the rails |
Nevada supported 1950s atomic testing for reasons both patriotic and | for federal money |
The only country with a word for those between thirteen and nineteen is | The U.S. |
n America in the 1950s, to be different was to be | Suspect |
Immigration of homosexuals was restricted by legislation introduced by | Patrick McCarren |
Rock and Roll began when white singers sang black songs for | White audiences |
Twentieth-century America was characterized by, among other things, “an enormous expansion of | an enormous expansion of-Suburbia |
In the 1950s, American foreign policy insisted that communism be | Contained |
Senator Joseph McCarthy gave several different figures when insisting that the State Department was filled with | Communist |
he “atomic hairdo” was the creation of a Las Vegas stylist named | GeeGee |
The “separate but equal” theory of education was deemed unconstitutional in the lawsuit named | Brown Vs Board |
Ella Baker suggests that leaders of the CRM were “made” by | The media |
Thurgood Marshall was a lawyer who worked for the civil rights group | NACPP |
Malcolm X insisted that there was no such thing as a non-violent | Revolution |
he Birmingham police chief who ordered dogs be set on, and fire hoses aimed at, peaceful marchers was named | Bull Conner |
The labor leader who forced FRD to integrate government and defense industries was | A. Phillip Randolph |
Malcolm X—El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz—was assassinated, it is believed, by | Nation of Islam Leadership |
According to Dr. King, the word “wait,” insofar as it concerned African Americans, actually meant | Never |
Brinkley observes that perhaps the most important result of the Black Power Movement was | A social and psychological one |
Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement were expert in the use of the relatively new medium of | Television |
The name of the helicopter pilot who stopped the killing at My Lai was | Army Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jr. |
Most hippies came from families that were “white, affluent, and | white, affluent, and-middle class |
The average age of Americans fighting in Vietnam was | 19 |
Marilyn Young reported that more Vietnam veterans “have committed suicide since the war than | Died in it |
According to Betty Freidan, the “silent question” asked by middle class American women was | Is that all? |
The term that expressed doubt about the truthfulness of military and government statements and figures was | the Credibility Gap |
“The Times They Are A-Changin’” was written and sung by | Speaking of the court he led for sixteen years, Earl Warren said: “All we did was to |
In the 50s and 60s, America told a woman that if she was unhappy then “something must be wrong with | Her marriage or herself |
The only American convicted for the incident at the village of My Lai was | William Calley Jr. |
Betty Friedan | The Feminine Mystique women are expected to be perfectly happy as a housewife; they aren't!!! |
The two themes that dominated the half-century after the Civil War were consolidation and | expanding ethnic diversity |
Cahan several times suggests that to him America at first seemed not | genuine, real, or human |
According to Bok, the most priceless gift that any nation can offer is | opportunity |
Ross proposes that moral advancement can best be measured by the position | of women |
According to Kallen, “‘Americanization’ signifies the disappearance of | the external differences upon which so much race-prejudice often feeds.” |
Addams opens Hull House in order, she says, to live in a | “really living world and refusing to be content with a shadowy intellectual or aesthetic reflection of it.” |
Because distances could be covered in less time, the Transportation Revolution in effect made the world | smaller |
For the kind of fiction he wanted to write, Henry James felt American society was | too thin |
The sciences that Tennyson called “The Terrible Muses” were | Geology and Astronomy |
Henry Adams said that the “new American” was the “servant of the | powerhouse |
The painter who felt that landscapes ought to reveal a “heroic national identity” was | Thomas Cole |
George Bellows, George Luks, and John Sloan were members of what art historians call the | historians call the contemporary form of realism |
“An old bitch gone in the teeth” is a description of Western culture by | Ezra Pound |
“The New Negro” is a phrase associated with the writer | Alain Locke |
Alain Locke says that the Great Migration was a movement not just from rural to urban but from medieval to | modern |
Motley’s Blues is a painting of people in a nightclub in | Jockey Club |
The so-called Second Industrial Revolution created products for | Business and the home |
Earl Shoop is said to have a “resemblance to | a mechanical drawing |
To Faye Greener’s “egg-like self-sufficiency” Tod Hackett responds with fantasies of | crushing her |
The bar at which the floor show features female impersonators is called | Cinderella Bar |
In America in the 1950s, to be different was to be | suspect |
Historian Kenneth Jackson called the suburbs the | crabgrass frontier |
Immigration of homosexuals was restricted by legislation introduced by | Nevada’s Patrick McCarran |
During spring training Jackie Robinson stayed not in a hotel but in | in the home of a prominent Negro family. |
In “Tootle” the most important lesson taught is | to conform |
In the 1950s, Hughes says, American Exceptionalism was fueled by | paranoia to keep it at boiling point |
The assistant Attorney General who came to national prominence during the Red Scare of the 1920s was | J. Edgar Hoover |
“I’m sorry too, Dimitri. I’m very sorry. All right! You’re sorrier than I am! But I am sorry as well. Speaker: | President Muffley |
Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here. This is the War Room!” Speaker | President Muffley |
You’re going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company.” Speaker: | Guano |
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the International Communist Conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.” Speaker | Ripper |
“Well boys, I reckon this is it. Nuclear combat, toe to toe with the Russkies.” Speaker: | Kong |
“Mr. President, we must not allow…a mine shaft gap.” Speaker | Turgidson |
“We were afraid of a doomsday gap.” Speaker: | Ambassador de Sadesky |
“Mr. President, I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed. But I do say…no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.” Speaker: | Turgidson |
“I mean after all, well let’s face it, we…we don’t want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, do we?” Speaker: | Mandrake |
“But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious…service along these lines” Speaker: | Dr. Strangelove |
Malcolm X—El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz—was assassinated, it is believed, by | Nation of Islam gunmen. |
Carmichael argues that “psychological equality” for black people will be achieved by emphasizing the political achievements of | The black consciousness. |
Baker says that the only protection people have against violence or injustice, in the long run, | are themselves |
The first black student to attend the University of Mississippi was | James Meredith |
Davis says that the black community must honor Malcolm X because “he was our | manhood, our living, black manhood |
Television first covered the civil rights struggle when it broadcast events from | Little Rock on the “Huntley-Brinkley Report” |
Harrington observed that “the poor are politically | invisible |
Among the 681 demonstrators arrested at the March on the Pentagon was the writer whose book about it would earn a Pulitzer Prize, | Norman Mailer |
As government expands,” President Reagan says, | liberty contracts |
Attitudes toward the war often revealed “a powerful sense of | class grievance |
President Reagan proposes that the American Revolution reversed the course of government with the words | We the people |
Either you are with us,” President Bush says, “or | you are with the terrorists |
The dissent in the Larry Hiibel Nevada Supreme Court case was written by | Justice Deborah Agosti |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964) |
Dubois - “from The Souls of Black Folks,” pp. 237–241 | political aspirations, not economic striving; liberal arts will create a new black society |
Addams - “from Twenty Years At Hull House, pp. 242–246 | Hull House was supposed to break the boundary between the rich and poor |
Jacob Riis - “from How The Other Half Lives,” pp. 192–194 | tenements are crowded and no longer healthy and wonderful; top half don't ask questions cause they don't want to know; |
Rosie the Riveter | Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies. |
Jane Addams | a pioneer settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace. She helped turn the US to issues of concern to mothers, such as the needs of children, public health, and world peace. |
Faye Greener | A seventeen-year-old aspiring actress. Faye was raised by her father Harry, Faye has grown up in the world of acting and entertainment and has always wanted to be an actress. Though she is only seventeen, she can carry herself like a worldly, sexual woman |
Harlem Renaissance | A cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. The Movement also included the new African-American cultural expressions across the urban areas in the Northe |
Malcolm X | He was a Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans; detractors accused him of preaching |
Social Darwinism | Social Darwinism is Darwinism, the concept of survival of the fittest, to everyday social circumstances. These can range from wealth debates to political debates, with the general principle being that the strong should see their wealth and power increase |
Sen. Joseph McCarthy | He was an most visible public face of a period in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread Communist subversion. He was noted for making claims that there were large numbers of Communists inside the government. |
the New Immigrants | The "new immigrants" came during the period of intense industrial development known as the gilded age as well as the reaction to this growth during the progressive era. This period immediately following the Civil War and extending up until the 1920's. |
Dr. Strangelove | Dr. Strangelove is an ex-Nazi scientist,He serves as President Muffley's scientific adviser in the War Room. |
My Lai |