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45 Cards in this Set
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Push Factor
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A problem or event that causes someone to migrate from one region to another
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Pull Factor
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An attraction that pulls migrants from another place
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Assimilation
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The absorption of people into the dominant culture.
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Acculturation
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The process of accepting, borrowing, and exchanging ideas and traits among cultures.
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Nativism
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The policy of favoring the interests of native-born Americans over the interests of immigrants.
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Race
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A method of dividing humans according to the color of their skin and other physical features
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Ethnicity
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A social group that has a common national or cultural tradition:
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Quota
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a fixed minimum or maximum number of a particular group of people allowed to do something
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Naturalization
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The process of becoming a citizen.
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Amnesty
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An official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses.
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Political Asylum
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the protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a result of violence or persecution.
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Refugee
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a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster
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Civil Liberties
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Protections from government interference and guarantees of individual freedoms
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Civil Rights
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A right that is guaranteed to all citizens by the government
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Domestic Policy
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Decisions, laws, and programs made by the government that are directly related to the issues in the US.
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Foreign Policy
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Decisions, laws, and programs made by the government that are related to the country’s relationship with other countries.
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Radical
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a person who advocates extreme or complete political and/or social changes;
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Liberal
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A person who advocates social and political reform but not revolution.
Evolutionary change rather than revolutionary change. |
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Conservative
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Holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in relation to politics or religion.
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Reactionary
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Wants change also, but wants to retreat into the past and restore the order of things the way they used to be.
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Consumer Culture
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A culture that views the consumption of large quantities of goods as beneficial to the economy and a source of personal happiness
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Mass Media
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Newspapers, magazines, and other methods of communicating to a mass audience
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Popular Culture
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The culture of ordinary people, including music, art, literature, and entertainment, that is shaped by the mass media
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Prohibition
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Formally forbid (something) by law,
The ban on the production and sale of alcohol |
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Cold War
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A state of political tension and military rivalry between nations that stops short of full-scale war, especially that which existed between the United States and Soviet Union following World War II.
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Containment
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The action of keeping something harmful from spreading.
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Deterrence
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discouraging other people or countries from committing wrongs and injuries for fear of the consequences
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Mutually Assured Destruction. (MAD)
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a doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of weapons of mass destruction would effectively result in the complete destruction of both the attacker and the defender
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The Iron Curtain
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Europe’s division into mostly democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe
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Brinksmanship
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The art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, typically in politics.
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United Nations
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An international organization of countries set up in 1945, in succession to the League of Nations, to promote international peace, security, and cooperation
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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A postwar alliance which integrated the armed forces of a number of Western nations in both Europe and North America for the purposes of collective security
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Truman Doctrine
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The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist revolution.
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Segregation
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When people of different races, sexes, or religions are kept apart so that they live, work, or study separately.
De Facto: By Custom De Jure: By Law |
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integration
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the process of getting people of different races to live and work together instead of separately.
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Discrimination
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the practice of treating one person or group differently from another in an unfair way.
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Affirmative action
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Policy or program designed to redress historic injustices committed against racial minorities and other specified groups by making special efforts to provide members of these groups with access to educational and employment opportunities.
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Prejudice
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A dislike and distrust of people who are different from you in some way, especially because of their race, sex, religion etc.
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Minorities
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A dislike and distrust of people who are different from you in some way, especially because of their race, sex, religion etc.
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Conformity
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Behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions or standards
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Counterculture
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A way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing societal customs
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Suburb
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a residential district located on the outskirts of a city
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McCarthyism
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• The practice of publicly accusing people of subversive activities without evidence to back up the charges; named for Senator Joseph McCarthy (1950s)
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Great Society
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• A set of domestic programs proposed or enacted by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Two main goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice
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Welfare State
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• A social system in which the government takes responsibility for the economic well being of its citizens by providing programs and direct financial assistance
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