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(2 words) an employee (indenturee) within a system of unfree labor who is bound by a contract (an ___ ____) to work for a particular employer for a fixed period of time. Upon completion of the contract, they were granted freedom or occasionally plots of land.
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(2 words) (page 8) Religion is the second major American culture and has its roots in ancient ____ __________ belief structures and in the many other faiths brought to the US.
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(2 words) Military action against militant leaders and organizations in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.
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Referring to the USA – Its unique mission in the world, idealism, high aspitrayions and sense of destiny.
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(p17) Informality of American life founded on _______, egalitarianism and a historical rejection of European habits = A social theory favouring freedom of action on a personal scale over collective or state control.
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(page 15-16) The European _________ , the Age of ____________ or the Age of Reason influenced the framers of the Declaration of Independence and the US constitution. AN intellectual movement which dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century.
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The US ________ was drawn up in 1787, after the 1776 Declaration of Independence.
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(2 words) it describes activities that run from "huge transactions" to the more general "doing big things". United States corporations that fall into this category in 2015 include ExxonMobil, Wal-Mart, Google, Microsoft, Apple, General Electric, General Motors, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase.
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(2 words or 1) ___(-)____ movements and organizations utilize collective action from the local level to effect change at the local, regional, national, or international level. (see p5)
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(three words) Approximately from 1945to 1989 or 1991. A state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).
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(2 words) (see p5) The Protestant ___ ___ was “working hard in this life to be rewarded here and in the next) from British arrivals to USA.
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A general agreement (p9) The political system undergoes checks and balances at various levels and allow ________ policies.
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In the context of the United States, this primarly refers to the withdrawal of one or more States from the Union that constitutes the United States; but may loosely refer to leaving a State or territory to form a separate territory or new State, or to the severing of an area from a city or county within a State. The most serious attempt at it was advanced in the years 1860 and 1861 as eleven southern States each declared it from the United States, and joined together to form the Confederate States of America. This movement collapsed in 1865 with the defeat of Confederate forces by Union armies in the American Civil War.
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support for the concerns of ordinary people.
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(2words) The __ ___ to end slavery and southern-state secession from the Union (1861-5)
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This is the political position of supporting a favored status for the native majority of a nation while targeting and threatening newcomers or immigrants.
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(noun) Wealthy Virginia and Maryland planters began to buy XXX in preference to ********* ********* during the 1660s and 1670s, and poorer planters followed suit by c.1700. The first British colonists in Carolina introduced African XXX into the colony in 1670, the year the colony was founded, and Charleston ultimately became the busiest of the ports in North America.
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______________ and Asian ethnic groups revived ethnic differences in the 90s and noughties which had seemed to lose urgency since the 1950s.
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Restlessness, escape from restraints, change, action, mobility, quests for new experiences, self-improvement and a belief in potential are examples of these. (p16)
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(p17) More people now identify themselves and their _____/ancestral background as simply “American” or “US” without the need for a qualifier such as “Irish American”.
