Date Due |
Pages |
Key Concepts |
12/17 |
575-583 |
- The major ways that the federal government promotes business activity
in the United States
- Steps taken by the government to regulate businesses, especially
trusts and monopolies
- The steps the government takes to protect the American consumer
- The role of the government in regulating and working with labor unions
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12/19 |
590-595 |
- The ways that a welfare state has emerged in the United States in the
20th Century, especially since the New Deal
- The nature and roles of the essential Public Assistance Programs that
are run by the federal government
- The ways that the federal government promotes public health
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1/7 |
607-613 |
- The major factors that drive United States' foreign policy
- How American foreign policy has changed over the years (esp.
isolationism vs. internationalism)
- The ways that the 20th century have made the United States into a
world power
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1/9 |
Current Event #7 Due (last one of the semester) |
1/10 |
689-694 |
- the origins of modern democracy as a political system
- The wide variety of parliamentary democracies in practice around the
world
- The challenges facing consolidated democracies
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1/14 |
696-701 |
- the characteristics that define a state as an "emerging democracy"
- the importance of the solidarity movement in Poland and the challenges
faced there
- the emergence of democracy in South Africa out of the system of
Apartheid
- the challenges Mexico has faced throughout the century in achieving
true democracy
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1/17 |
702-707 |
- the major ways that life in an authoritarian state differs from a
democracy. Pay special attention to the examples provided by China,
Cuba, Iran and Iraq
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