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  1. Apr 2024
    1. fully to the present moment instead of allowing ourselves to become preoccupied with the past or future.

      Matthew 6:34 “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”

  2. Feb 2024
    1. What was Buchanan’s relationship with white nationalism?

      Borrowed ideas from the far right, expressed their concerns but without looking for involvement with the group.

    2. How did Buchanan’s primary run influence the Republican Party?

      , the Republican Party adapted its platform to call, for the first time, for “structures” on the border. California activists took note as well, and a year later, they began working on what would become Proposition 187, a harsh measure that would cut undocumented immigrants off from almost every nonemergency government service, including public education

    3. What is the “Buchanan model” according to Hemmer?

      Exploiting divisive subjects and winning elections using populism. , became a central mode of politics, as politicians learned that headline-grabbing outrage could build a base far more easily than shoe-leather politicking could. L

    4. What was Patrick Buchanan’s goal with this 1992 primary campaign, according to Hemmer?

      get the support of right Reagans

    5. Why was 1991 a good time for Buchanan to push is version of conservatism?

      The geopolitical reality that had governed American politics for nearly 50 years, and defined the Cold War conservative movement that Reagan had led, disappeared overnight. Mr. Buchanan grasped that a new conservatism — or rather, an old conservatism renovated for a new age — was possible

    6. Why does Hemmer argue that Buchanan’s politics were both “retro” and modern?

      He harked back to pre-Cold War foreign policy as well. Mr. Buchanan denounced the invasion and Bush’s plans to construct a “new world order.” His presidential campaign even borrowed the slogan “America First” from the anti-interventionist group that had opposed U.S. involvement in World War II, Yet Mr. Buchanan’s retro politics were also thoroughly modern. He built his political reputation not through service but through media, a novel approach for a candidate.

    7. How did Bush respond to primary losses and criticism during his campaign?

      Dirty war against John McCain

    8. Who was Bush’s campaign trying to appeal to in the election?

      Christian right and evangelicals.

    9. What was the message behind the label of “compassionate conservative”?

      Conservative values with some tendency to help people with financial problems.

    10. How did Bush and his advisors try to frame Bush’s candidacy?

      Conservativism with compassion.

    1. The Soviet Union invaded when Islamic fundamentalists threatened to overturn the friendly communist regime then in power.

      Why the Soviet Union was not threatened by Islamic fundamentalists?

    2. Al Qaeda - a terrorist organization determined to destroy the United States.

      Why Al Qaeda had such a goal? ANSWER: At the end of the Gulf War, the ongoing presence of thousands of non-Muslim American troops in Saudi Arabia deeply offended many religious Saudis, including Osama bin Laden (Dailey 363).

    3. Several times in the 1990s Al Qaeda announced a holy war, or jihad, on the United States.

      Why?

    4. How did Bush frame victory in the Gulf War?

      Kuwait is in hands of Kuwaitis and their own destiny. Kuwait was free and sovereign nation.

    5. is the main question that the Gulf War raised for Americans?

      If they would be the policeman for an unstable world after half century being at war.

    6. How long did the war take, and what were the causalities for the United States vs. Iraqis?

      100 Hours. 149 Allied casualties and 85,000 to 150,000 Iraqi casualties.

    7. What was the United States trying to do in the Gulf War?

      Expel Iraq from Kuwait and avoid the invasion of Saudi Arabia. Also remove the military capabilities of Iraq.

    1. What was the relationship between Ayatollah Khomeini and the militants who took the Americans hostage?

      He was surprised by the kidnapping of Americans by the protesters. He used the hostage situation to solidify power.

    2. Why did revolutionaries hate the United States and target the U.S. Embassy?

      Iranians resented the United States for its support of despotism and its disregard of the popular will. Pahlavi, a modernizing autocrat, had been installed by the United States in 1953, after Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh had nationalized Iran’s oil industry and petroleum reserves. The entry of the Shah was a crime against the islamic revolution led by Ayatolla Kumeini. The students wanted to take revenge for the Shah shameful actions.

    3. What issues does Mitchell see with North’s reasoning?

      If the president works in secret how the people who elected him can know about his/her activities in order to reelect him/her? The. U.S can not be inconsistent with its policies, the U.S can not be democratic in public and pursue illegal sell of arms in secret, or push to overthrow foreign govemnents.

    4. How does North frame presidential power?

      He says that president has the authority to work secretly.

    5. What concerns does the Congressman George Mitchell raise about covert government actions

      How to perform secret and cover up actions in a democratic system following the rule of law and accountability.

    6. What led to the release of the hostages?

      A war with IRAQ AND IRAN NEEDED SUPPLIES. Foreign Middle East governments helped with the release. The U.S. paid an 8 million dollars ransom.

    7. What was the relationship between the United States and Iran before the revolution?

      Iran was our source of oil. Iran was our customer for. military supplies. The U.S supported a tyrant, the Shah. The U.S helped the Shah treat his cancer and. IRAN hated the U.S for helping the Shah.

    8. The hostages were finally released the day that Reagan took office.

      If this is the case the Islamic fundamentalists were sided with Reagan or what happened?

    1. What was the impact of the Great Recession on American society?

      Huge financial losses, people did not spend, banks did not give loans. Millions lost their jobs and houses, business closed. THE GOVERNMENT HAD TO INTERVENE

    2. What triggered the recession?

      Drop in property prices due to low demand. Many people could not pay the mortgage or sell their homes. Since homes had less value the homeowner and also the bank lost money triggering a dominoes effect in the economy, bnaks collapsed.

    3. What are sub-prime mortgages, and why did consumers and banks take them on?

      Loans to low credit rating people and historically banks would not give loans but they did and charged more interest. Since homes were increasing in price it seemed a good business

    4. What was the significance of the Anita Hill controversy?

      The complains about sexual harassment increased by 500%. A record women were elected to the house and the senate.

    5. How was Anita Hill and her testimony treated by the senate and the nation?

      Most people did not believe Anita's story and thought she was a liar.

    6. Why did Congress ultimately hear Anita Hill’s testimony in Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearing?

      Because they were colleagues and the entire media was there.

    7. What was the workplace like for women before the idea of sexual harassment became well-known?

      Women have endured sexual male agressiveness. Men would comment about women body.

    8. How does this compare with your textbook’s discussion of the causes of anti-immigrant sentiment?

      Same story, when a population struggle they fight for the jobs or resources available.

    9. What does the clip suggest about the relationship between economic issues and anti-immigrant sentiment?

      Every time anglosaxons are hurting economically they blame someone, even their own kind like the OAKIES in the great depression.

    10. What was the impact of Prop 187 on the Latino community of California?

      REFUSAL OF SERVICES IN BANKS, RESTAURANTS AND GROCERY STORES, HATE CRIMES. MANY ANGLOSAXONS DEMANDED PROOF OF THE RIGHT TO BE IN THE US.

    1. How did Jones come up with the idea for the quilt

      They told people to write the name of friends in a poster and he thought it looked like a quilt.

    2. What were the hopes and goals Jones had for the quilt?

      To get people to know what the gay community went trough and to remember their lost friends to AIDS.

    3. How was the quilt designed, and what was Jones hoping to convey by displaying the quilt on the National Mall?

      6x3 ft the same size of a grave. How much land would be covered to bury all these AIDS deaths.

    4. why did he think it would be such a powerful symbol?

      To remember people that died from AIDS. Good therapy for grief and AIDS dead were actually people.

    5. What do we learn from Cleve Jones's account about how AIDS spread in his community

      The disease spread quickly and killed 20,000 gay people.

    6. What were Jarvis’s arguments and why were they so popular with Californians?

      The right to have property. Taxes would force people to lose their home.

    7. What did did Proposition 13 do?

      1% property taxes for homeowners and corporations. It cut taxes by 2/3.

    8. What was the “Tax Revolt”?

      Property owners complained about high taxation. Many complained that they could not afford living in their own hones. Revolution against taxes and government.

    9. . One economist Links to an external site.has noted that the levels of wealth concentration we see today were last seen during the 1920s.

      Also: Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Harvard University Press, 2014.

    10. Why was Prop 13 problematic for California?

      Lost revenues that were used for schools and other social programs.

    1. What is the goal of Carter’s speech, and what policy changes does he lay out?
      1. Avoid using foreign oil and cut by half foreign oil by the 1980s.
      2. Import quotas to reduce oil dependence.

      3.DEVELOP INTERNAL SOURCES OF FUEL , coal ,or a solar bank 4. Bond emissions to finance the transition. 5. Create an energy mobilization board to cut redtape. 6. Conservation program, gasoline rationong.

    2. Do you think his speech was effective and/or inspiring?

      I believe is inspiring because its says what should be done to get out of the hole.

    3. What do their speeches reveal about this time in American politics and culture?

      Carter seems like manager, Reagan like a motivator.

    4. Who do you think was more effective and why?

      Carter because was specific in what to do and how to address the issues.

    5. How do you compare and contrast the way the talked about the United States and the American people?

      Carter was mor specific

    6. Do you think his speech was effective and/or inspiring?

      Somewhat effective because does not tell people what should they do or what the government expect from them.

    7. How does Reagan propose fixing those problems?

      Solution: Curb size and influence of the federal government, individualism, Cut taxes, reduce government spending, lighting the "punitive tax burden".

    8. What do you think of Reagan as a speaker?

      Reagan is inspiring but the solutions seems simplistic, he does not offer specific steps. The camera crew also helps by pointing the camera to the cemetery Reagan talks about thus creating a synchronization of words and images.

    9. What are the greatest problems facing the nation, according to Reagan?

      Problems: Economic afflictions Sustained Inflation, Idle industries, Human misery, personal indignity, low return for those who work due to "penalizing taxes", Public spending and deficit.

    10. What do you think of Carter as a speaker?

      He was talking common sense.

    11. What is he asking of the American people?

      To make the sacrifices in terms of spending fuel to avoid dependence on other countries.

    1. How did some in the anti-war movement justify using violence to achieve their goals?

      They radicalized sending BOMBS to goverment officials and buildings. IT WAS FRAGMENTED AND CHAOTIC. The goal of these bombings was to “bring the war home,” to force Americans to experience the violence endured on a far greater scale by the Vietnamese.

    2. What was the reaction in the United States to the killing of students at Kent State?

      American culture of free speech was threatened. However 58% Americans thought THE KILLING was justified. Four millions students marched against what happened. The National guard was sent to 16 states. Turmoil. Veterans of the Vietnam war joined the movement

    3. What was the relationship between students and the authorities like at Kent State prior to the National Guard firing on students?

      Unequal, the students were protesting, they state guard ere armed. The guards killed students.

    4. Why did the U.S. send troops to Cambodia, and what was the reaction to this in the United States?

      To attack North VIETNAM BEHIND CAMBODIAS BORDER AND HELP SOUTH VIETNAM GET READY TO FIGHT ON THEIR OWN

    5. How did the anti-war movement change in the early 1970s?

      They radicalized sending BOMBS to goverment officials and buildings. IT WAS FRAGMENTED AND CHAOTIC.

    6. As American military personnel pulled out, what did Americans bring into Vietnam?

      They sent millions of rifles and heavy military equipment.

    7. What was Nixon and Kissinger’s strategy in Vietnam?

      Clean up, secret strategy, surrender without saying so.

    8. How did the Vietnamese and American military officials feel about this shift in American military policy?

      The Vietnamese knew they were going to lose and the American knew it as well. The Americana were happy to leave the conflict.

    9. What prompted Vietnamizatio

      The massive American casualties and the impossibility to win the war.

    10. How did Hamburger Hill help change national conversation about the war?

      Why send people to die if they were not attempting to win the war?

    1. Why did Nixon seek to discredit the press?

      To make them lose credibility and stop them to investigate him.

    2. How did Nixon seek to control press coverage of his administration?

      By intimidating, and bullying the press and protesters.

    1. Why did the ERA end up being so controversial, and what criticism of American society and the feminist movement did it raise?

      Because the ERA according to antifeminist would rob women of their "natural" roles as mothers.

    2. What was the Equal Rights Amendment, and what was its goal?

      Equal rights for men and women

    3. What was the impact of Roe v Wade on the women’s movement?

      The decision may have motivated the EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT

    4. How did discussions about women’s health change in the 1970s?

      The focus was aimed to abortion rights.

    5. What did Title IX do and why was it significant?

      Colleges Should offer the same opportunities to women as the one offered to men or they would not receive federal grants.

    6. What was consciousness raising, and why was it successful?

      A man said shut up to a women leader in a civil rights meeting, other women noticed and raised awareness.

    7. How did other protest moments of the 1960s inspire radical feminism?

      The protests: THE ANTIWAR AND CIVIL RIGHT MOVEMENT, both men and women protested, yet usually women when to the kitchen to "continue working" for men.

    8. What were the central issues of Lorena Weeks’s court case, and why was it an important moment for NOW?

      She needed to work in a better position at the company that paid better than her current job but those roles were reserved for men. She needed to move heavy equipment.

    9. How did the National Organization for Women (NOW) form, and what was its primary goal?

      Aileen Hernandez joined women lawyers watching the EEOC unaction regarding discrimination based on age.

    10. What restrictions did airlines place on women working as stewardesses, and why did they ultimately file a claim with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission?

      Normal weight, 5,2 and 5,6 feet tall, and between 21 and 28 years old. Once aged 32 the woman would get fired.

    11. What fears did whites have the prompted them to move?

      The lose of value of their property and they also did not want to associate with black people.

    12. How did real estate brokers play into white flight?

      They sent flyers inciting people to sell before the house lose value.

    13. How did Laurelton change over time?

      Changed from 100% white to 90% black

    14. Why did African Americans move to the suburbs?

      Because offered a good quality of life, good schools, safer neighborhoods than in the city.

    15. What were the major differences between white and black schools in Boston?

      The quality of infrastructure and professor was better in white schools.

    16. Did busing remain a popular approach for helping to equality black and white education?

      No.

    17. What was the relationship between white and black students at South Boston High School?

      They would fight.

    18. Why did the residents of South Boston oppose busing?

      They were racist, they thought blacks were trouble makers

    19. Why did African Americans want to desegregate white schools?

      Because resources followed white students

    1. Anti-War protests

      the antiwar movement exploded the minute white college graduates began to be drafted. (Dailey 281)

    1. major laws

      Fair Labor Standards Act.?

    2. Great Society succeeded.

      What was this Great Society? One, the president explained, that “rests on abundance and liberty for all. It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice, to which we are totally committed in our time. . . .

    1. What was COINTELPRO, and what was its goal?

      Counterintelligence program. The goal was to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit or otherwise neutralize the activities of black nationalists. Neutralize meant , make someone and informant, jail someone or kill someone. Hoover wanted to destroy the BPP.

    2. How would you describe the Black Panther Party’s cultural impact?

      They changed the bad image of black people at that time to what they really are, beautiful humans beings.

    3. What were some of the community programs the Panthers promoted?

      Free breakfast at school for children.

    4. What were the Panthers about and who did they try to recruit?

      They would recruit anyone who showed up.

    5. What was included in the 10-point platform?

      Social policies like housing , full employment, end to discrimination, etc.

    6. state was not particularly invested in gun control until the Black Panthers insisted on arming themselves.

      Yet "From 2000 to 2021, there were 276 casualties (108 killed and 168 wounded)"("Violent Deaths at School and Away From School, School Shootings, and Active Shooter Incidents," 2024). And no stricter gun laws at the federal level as to 2024.

    7. California began passing stricter gun laws

      Curiously , when white people shoot at schools there are no stricter gun laws as a result. Therefore, the question seems to be about race.

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      Black

    9. Why was this a significant moment in California and United States history?

      People defended their constitutional rights to create positive change.

    10. How did the protest unfold?

      The dean tried to cite the students in the tables but gave up. They were being replaced quickly.

    11. How did students put pressure on the university administration?

      They sit in the campus to avoid the arrest of a student. As many as 6000 people participated.

    12. What were students at Berkeley protesting, and how did the university unwittingly unite these protestors?

      discriminatory Hiring practices of Bay Area business. They were trying to get jobs for blacks. The university banned the tables, the political activity.

  3. Jan 2024
    1. Why did it take a while for the My Lai Massacre to become public knowledge?

      Lack of leadership at every level of the command chain and and murderers among those commanders.

    2. What do we learn from the interview with the soldier who took part in the massacre?

      Lieutenant Callan ordered to Paul Meadlo doing it. He felt he was doing the right thing. He felt hatred because he lost a friend

    3. Why was My Lai so shocking for the American people?

      An official was about to order to shoot American troops if they do not stop killing civilians.

    4. What happened in My Lai?

      Americans divisions killed 567 south Vietnamese civilians DURING A SWEEP IN MARCH 1968

    5. What was the battle like in Saigon?

      Brutal.

    6. The following clip from Ken Burns’ documentary looks at the Tet Offensive

      Knowing who was the Viet Cong would have help understand the video better than not knowing what the Viet Cong was.

    7. Where did the Viet Cong attack?

      In 36 cities across South Vietnam.

    8. Why were the United States and its allies not expecting this attack?

      Because the Vietnamese were celebrating a holiday.

    9. What two different perspectives of patriotism were highlighted in the clip?

      One in which they wanted to impose democracy with guns because democracy is right, and the other in which they wanted to the country act rightly and not wrongly.

    10. How did the government respond to the movement's growing influence?

      They thought it was a Soviet plot to promote communism. The FBI and CIA began infiltrating the movement and inciting violence to undercut their appeal.

    11. How had the Anti-War movement by 1967?

      Evolved to create theNational Mobilization to end the war in Vietnam. The movement was increasing in numbers and militancy. The movement decided to stop it.

    12. Who were some prominent leaders now supporting the Anti-War movement?

      Dr. Benjamin Spock, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    1. What reasons were given for why businesses were burned?

      Business were burned because they treated bad black customers and did not employed them .

    2. What sparked the riot vs. what were the deeper causes of the violence?

      The riots sparked as black communities were tired of police harassment. The deeper causes were poverty, inequality, and racism.

    3. What was the relationship between Detroit’s police and the black community like?

      A relationship in which the police harassed and assumed that blacks were criminals.

    4. What primary goals and values can be observed from examining these laws?

      The goal of prosperity for all. The value that the American dream should reach everybody in some way.

    5. nfluence of the New Deal?

      In tIn he Social Security Acts, the Food stamp Act, the Housing and urban Development Act, The Higher Education Act and the Economic Opportunity Act. These programs seems to attack poverty by providing more opportunities from employment, housing , and education.

    1. What did Friedan discover when she interviewed her college classmates?

      They were not satisfied.

    2. Why were many women of the era unhappy?

      They felt they did not have choices and there were no avenues for their talents.

    1. What does MLK say in his speech, and why do you think this speech is so revered even today?

      He talked about the ideal country in which race and religion has no place to divide humans.

    2. Why was there controversy surrounding John Lewis’ speech?

      Criticized JFK administration for lack of Civil rights actions. Lewis had strong and confrontational rhetoric, and his speech was considered more radical and provocative than the overall tone of the march.

    3. What was the goal of the March on Washington, and did it succeed?

      A Civil rights program. Many people, black and white, famous and unknown traveled to Washington. It was a success because 200,000 people attended.

    4. Did all the figures interviewed think MLK’s decision to come to the city was a good idea?

      Attorney David Vann seems to disagree with MLJ decision to protest.

    5. How does the footage of dogs and water hoses turned on protestors enhance your understanding of both the mentality of Birmingham police and the rest of America viewing these images?

      The police felt contempt for blacks but America witnessed what happened trough public media.

    6. Why do you think this trial in particular helped increase civil rights agitation?

      Because Emmet Till was left unrecognizable. The trial showed to the entire world the actions of racist in the U.S.

    7. What do we learn about the atmosphere of the trial?

      The trial was biased. Additionally, White southerners could not believed that a black person was a congressman.

    8. What did you find most powerful and informative from the clip?

      The shock and dismay of blacks when they saw the body of Emmet Till. Also the sign that says: "SUMNER -> "A GOOD PLACE TO RAISE A BOY". Sheriff H.C Strider of Tallahatche County says they intend to give. an impartial trial and seconds later blurts "We never have any trouble until some of our southern niggers go up north and the N.A.AC.P talks to them and they come back home"

    9. Why did Mamie Till insist on an open-casket funeral?

      "So all the world can see what they did to my boy"

    1. What does Nixon say in response?

      Nixon says that the TV will improve communication between the two countries and masterfully avoid confrontation.

    2. What were the points made by Nikita Khrushchev, and what does this reveal about the Soviet perspective of the United States?

      Nikita says that they are ahead of the U.S and will wave at them and see them behind the Soviet Union, that Communism is better than Capitalism and that Americans will never understand that.

    1. Brown v. Board of Education

      Brown v. Board of Education refers to a landmark case in the United States Supreme Court that played a pivotal role in the struggle against racial segregation in American public schools. The case was named after Oliver Brown, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

      In the early 1950s, racial segregation was still widespread in many aspects of American life, including public schools. The case originated from a class-action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas in 1951. Thirteen African American parents, including Oliver Brown, challenged the constitutionality of racial segregation in public schools. They argued that the segregation of students into separate schools based on race violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, and on May 17, 1954, the Court issued a unanimous decision in favor of the plaintiffs.

    1. Germany

      The cause of a probable WWIII comes from this : "but they (the Russians), made clear the price the Allies would pay for having left the Red Army to fight the Nazis alone for nearly three years: neither Britain nor America would interfere with Soviet control over eastern Europe and the Baltic states." Dailey(188).

    2. which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants -

      FDR is clear here: Freedom from want. To want whatever the human soul desires. Likely wealth in most cases.

    3. without drawing the United States immediately in to the conflict.

      Like in the Israel-Hamas war and the Ukraine-Russia war?.

    1. imprisonment of Japanese immigrants and Japanese American citizens during World War II.

      Considering the deceptive actions of the Japanese Empire and the suicidal behavior to defend it by many Japanese, it seems reasonable to question people of Japanese background. Some Anglo-Saxons might have reasoned, 'What if all of them decide to attack Whites?' However, Americans of Japanese ancestry had the same rights as any other Americans under the Constitution. Additionally, "The attorney general’s calm was eroded at the end of January 1942 by a report suggesting that Hawai’i-based espionage agents had assisted the Japanese at Pearl Harbor" (Dailey 185).

    2. the more common version we see today Links to an external site. – which includes a more feminine portrayal of Rosie.

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    3. As you watch

      The video plays some sort of Japanese music while the American woman of Japanese ancestry speaks (Executive Order and Internment From Title: Part 1: A Necessary War, 6:29). Considering the context, it seems inadequate and disrespectful toward this American woman.

    1. beneath her a copy of Hitler’s manifesto,

      There is no copy of such manifesto clearly visible in the image.

    1. It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago.

      Similar to Russian forces grouping next to the Ukrainian border a year ago. When Russians were questioned about such forces they said that were usual or normal military exercises.

    1. This was a victory for reform legislation at the time, but it also reinforced the idea that men and women could and should be treated differently

      There are realms in which women should be treated differently than men for their own good. For instance, soccer rules are better fit to men. The ball is too big for them and the field to large, resulting in more injuries. Therefore there are situations in which women must be treated differently for their own well being. Reference: "Should Women's Football Have Different Rules from Men's?" The Economist, August 16, 2023. https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/08/16/should-womens-football-have-different-rules-from-mens.

    2. Women argued that their naturally more pious and moral nature, and role as mothers, made them better equipped to handle certain social welfare issues than men.

      I believed both sides are needed to shape policies.

    3. literacy tests,

      Although the idea seems good also creates discrimination , marginalization, and inequality. Many republics have lost their democracy for massive votes of people that do not understand the consequences of the policies proposed. A more informed and cultured voter would help and the only way seems to improve access to high quality education to all.

    4. the progressives

      The progressives were middle-class reformers with sense of superiority.

    5. Most middle-class Americans therefore believed that their values should be everyone’s values

      In my view, no one should believe that their values should be everyones values.

    1. urther endangering the nation and its culture

      They should have clarified in the constitution that US Culture was being Anglo-Saxon.

    2. William McKinley assassination,

      What a coincidence that every tima a president is killed there is a war.

    3. What might this image suggest about the era in which Roosevelt was president?

      The image suggest that world affairs were relevant.

    4. What impression of Roosevelt do you get from this image?

      He looks like a state-man, a global intellectual.