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41 Cards in this Set
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Cultural Imperialism
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the forceful domination of one society that results in a loss of culture
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Hegemony
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The predominant influence of one culture over another
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Syncretism
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The blending of elements from two cultures that results in something new
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The change in Native American concepts of land tenure is an example of
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Cultural imperialism
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The Ghost Dance is an example of
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Syncretism
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The concept of Ecological Indian assumes...
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Consciously conserved resources and a deep ecological knowledge.
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Date of the Constitutional Convention
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September 17, 1787
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Three clauses that provide the basis for environmental laws
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Property clause, Treaty clause, and Commerce clause
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Thomas Jefferson
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Articulated the origin of the theory of race in America
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Racial Nadir dates
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1890-1920
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Native American land tenure
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usufructary rights and sovereignty
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European land tenure
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Improvement, property rights, and exclusive rights
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Cronon's thesis
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City and country share a common history, Chicago in the second half of the 19th century best illustrates these linkages.
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Shallower history
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optimistic, heroification, triumphalism, feed good Disney history
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Deep History
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facts, varying viewpoints, open-endedness, skepticism,
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Historiography
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the history of history, how and why our history changes through time.
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Turner's Frontier Thesis
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The history of America is the history of colonizing the west. This colonizing of the west shaped the American character and values of individualism, optimism, and democratic values.
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Magnolia Myth
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slaves are happy and that there is harmony and grace between slaves and slave owners.
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Racial nadir
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when racism in the country is deemed to have been worse than in any other period after the American Civil War. 1890-1920
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Laissez faire political economy
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Doctrine of non interference (hands off),
People making their own fortune and people have the right to sell their labor the way they want. No workers comp, no regulation |
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2 Progressive Movements besides Conservation
When was the Progressive Era? |
Federal gove as Post office, land office, military.
Questions arised concerned with welath and power vs. good of the people. Upward shift in control from state to federal. 1890-1920 |
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Munn vs. Illinois
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1877, Munn challenged the warehouse act as unconstitutional. Saying that private property affect with a public interest.
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Landscape of Mutual Advantage
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convergence of economy and ecology, (supply and demand, prairies and forests)
Economic relations and value depend on 1st nature. |
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Key tenets in Progressive Conservation
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1st Environmental Movement in America
- Efficiency (using the resources efficiently in order to keep up with demand), expertise (using expert opinion to utilize resources for the greatest yield), order (control over resources and who delegates what resources) |
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Gifford Pinchot
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created the Forest Service in 1905. major influence on forestry. Forest Gump of the Progressive Era
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Ideologies of the Progressive Conservation Movement
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utilitarian conservation, scientific management, public ownership
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Prior appropriation
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first in time, first in right
Water rights of the West |
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Riparian rights
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when using the water, need to return it in relatively the same amount and quality.
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Geography of Capital
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tracing the flow of capital, Chicago and its financial hinterland
Illustrates the reach of the markets, bankruptcy records as primary source of data. |
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Gateway City
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the city as chief intermediary, asymmetrical, oblong/ elongated hinterlands.
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Buying and Selling Implications and Paradox
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implications: markets reach intro culture, advanced civilization, progress, material well being
paradox: city and country brought closer yet the relationship product and source is more obscure. |
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Suburb
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a place with no labor.
pastoral attributes of the country combined with the luxuires of the city. |
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Factors leading to the Dust Bowl
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Environmental circumstances (climate, elimination of natural vegetation, extreme drought), misguided science (thought anything could bring the rain), social and political drive (manifest destiny; homestead ethic)
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New Deal Conservation
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America's 2nd Conservation movement: soil conservation
private lands, incentives and regulations technical assistance, information, education |
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Hugh Hammond Bennett
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The father of soil conservation
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Constitutional Revolution
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protecting lessea faire, protect fundamental individual rights
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Modern Environmental Movement
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3rd conservation movement
mass movement, broader concerns, more federal legislation, backlash movement " aesthetic conservation movement", national parks, outdoor recreation. |
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Backlash/ Wise Use Property Rights
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1988, blame the environmental movement for trashing the economy to save the planet. advocate protection of private property rights.
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Progress
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the steady improvement as of a society or civilization, advancement toward a higher or better stage.
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Spaceship vs. Frontier mentality.
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Spaceship: finite resources, exhaustible, closed system, sustainability, waste stays
Frontier: infinite resources, inexhaustible, open system, technology for substitutes, each generation will have a better standard of living. |
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Tragedy of the Commons
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the commons- ownership rights are not existent or are ill defined. freedom to act in self interest brings run to all.
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