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Exam Review
2.The American Presidency, Political Parties, and Leadership
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accomplishments of George Washington's Presidency | Established cabinet, believed that congress should have their power apart from president, picked the site of the White House and the Capital. |
| Definition of Civic Virtue | is a morality or a standard of righteous behavior to citizen's involvement in society; exhibited by voting, volunteering, organizing a group |
| Definition of Republic | form of government in which power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote |
| Spoils System | Friends and Relatives of the President (or other legislative position) are given jobs in the government regardless of their education. |
| Reform-minded Presidents of the Progressive Era | Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson |
| Components of the "Wisconsin Idea" | Initiative, Referendum, Recall, and Secret Ballot |
| Hardings "Normalcy" | Harding wanted the US to go back to the way that it was before the war. |
| Coolidge's Laissez-Faire approach | Dawes Plan and Kellogg-Briand pact |
| National Defense Education Act | Response to Sputnik, encourage the improvement in teaching science and math in schools. |
| 1960 Presidential Debates | Between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy, was on obvious win for JFK because he was much more comfortable on TV, was the first televised debate. |
| Components of Kennedy's New Frontier | Space Race, Fight Poverty and Communism |
| Trend which began to emerge in the Democratic and Republican Parties in the 60's | Moderate and Conservative/Liberal fractions emerged in opposition to each other. |
| 1968 Democratic National Convention | In Chicago thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets the result was the democratic party falling apart over internal disagreements regarding Vietnam. |
| Nixon and the Silent Majority | It was a speech that Nixon gave to the people, referring to the people who don't speak up until they vote. |
| Causes of Watergate | Nixon's paranoia of political enemies, Nixon surrounded himself with loyalists, his insecurities of losing elections, the Vietnam War, |
| Lessons/Significance of Watergate | Freedom of press worked, two-party system worked, checks and balances worked, the rule of the law was upheld, a reform era for government began. |
| Gerald Ford's memorable action | Pardoning his predecessor, Nixon of the watergate scandal. |
| New Right | was created to get the economy bad in track and included unemployment insurance, created federal work projects to get unemployed a job. |
| Democratic Leadership Council | Was founded to keep the democratic party alive but when it was first founded it was meant to shift away the leftward turn it took. |
| Political Geography | North and East are more politically liberal and the South and West are more politically conservative. |
| Republican's during the 1960's | New Right: Shrinking the fed. gov't, cut social programs, and restore christian value. Contract with American |
| Democrats during the 1960's | 1968 Democratic convention, Democratic Leadership Council |
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