Understanding America's Founding and Social Movements

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Course Outline

  1. Founding ideals and national symbols
  2. Early America and independence
  3. Federalism and culture wars
  4. Immigration history and laws
  5. Border enforcement and immigration debate
  6. Slavery and the Constitution
  7. Civil rights to Black Lives Matter
  8. Republican motherhood and suffrage
  9. Second-wave feminism and abortion rights
  10. #MeToo and feminist backlash

1. Founding ideals and national symbols

Key Concepts & Definitions

  • Declaration of Independence: A 1776 founding document that asserts equality and freedom through unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
  • Unalienable rights: In the Declaration, rights that are treated as inherent and not legitimately taken away.
  • United States flag symbolism: A design that uses 13 stripes and 50 stars to represent the original colonies and current states.
  • E Pluribus Unum: A motto meaning “out of many, one,” used to describe unity created from diversity.

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1. What was the legal status of the Equal Rights Amendment in the United States?

2. What does the term "crimmigration" refer to?

3. Which constitutional clause counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for representation purposes?

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Declaration of Independence — core ideals?

Equality, liberty, unalienable rights

Unalienable rights — definition?

Inherent rights that cannot be taken away

U.S. flag symbolism — stripes and stars?

13 stripes for colonies, 50 stars for states

E Pluribus Unum — meaning?

Out of many, one

Early migration — route?

Beringia land bridge

Native cultures — examples?

Hohokam, Adena, Hopewell, Anasazi

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