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Answer the following questions as you view each of the presentations of the Core Content and read the notes from Module 15! Click below each question to type your response. Please have all of your answers in either blue or red color. This portion of Module 15 is worth 60 points!

VUS.15a; The Role of the Supreme Court

1. Why does the Supreme Court need to answer so many questions regarding people’s right to privacy?

2. What is the significance of the appointments of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Clarence Thomas and Sandra Day O’Connor?

3. What is the difference between judicial activism and judicial restraint?

4. Since the Brown decision, what has been the trend of the Supreme Court decisions?

5. What groups of minorities have benefitted from civil rights court cases since the Brown case?

6. Why is the 9th Amendment so important as part of American liberties?

7. What issues are related to Americans’ right to privacy?

8. Why would the contemporary court use judicial review?

VUS.14b; Changing Patterns of Immigration

1. What is the difference between an immigrant and an alien?

2. What are the three great phases of immigration to the United States?

3. What is meant by the term “melting pot”?

4. From where are these modern immigrants coming in larger numbers?

5. What are “illegal aliens”?

6. Why are many of these people coming to the United States?

7. How are these modern immigrants affecting the United States?

8. What are some of the positive contributions these people are making to the U.S.?

9. What are some legitimate criticisms when it comes to immigration today?

10. Why do many continue to face prejudice and discrimination?

VUS.15c; Science and Technology

1. What is technology?

2. How has technology affected communication and access to information?

3. What was the “Space Race”? Why does the U.S. believe it won?

4. Which president pledged a strong effort to send a man to the moon?

5. Who was the first American in space? Who was the first man to land on the moon?

6. Reference the quote: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

7. Who was America’s first woman in space?

8. What is the most pervasive effect of the rapid growth of technology in America?

9. Identify examples of technological advancements in communications and access to information:

10. What is telecommuting and distance learning?

11. Why is Dr. Jonas Salk so important?

12. What is outsourcing and off-shoring?

13. Why is outsourcing and off-shoring considered a “down side” to technology?

14. How has technology caused our planet to “shrink”?

VUS.15d; The Reagan Revolution

1. What was “Reaganomics”?

2. What role did Reagan believe the national government should play when it came to federalism?

3. What did Reagan demand happen to the size of the national government?

4. Reagan was considered a conservative. What does that mean?

5. Identify the FIVE key points to Reagan’s ideas:

6. Explain how supply side economics is supposed to work:

7. Why would this type of economy also be considered “trickle-down”?

8. What evidence shows that the “Reagan Revolution” extended well beyond his years in office?

VUS.15e; The Government and the Economy

1. What is “the economy”?

2. What evaluations are analyzed to help the government determine the state of the economy?

3. How does the Federal Reserve work to help regulate the economy?

4. Why would the economy need to be “sped up”?

What is the danger of an economy that is going too fast?

5. Why would the economy need to be slowed?

6. How can Congress and the President work to influence the economy?

7. Why can’t the government completely regulate and control the economy?

VUS.15f; The U.S. and Terrorism

1. What event caused a much increased focus on international terrorism by the people and government of the United States?

2. Why is fighting global terrorism such a “tricky” issue?

3. What is the difference between domestic and international policy?

4. What departments work with the President to help determine policies used to fight international terrorism?

5. In what ways have we seen heightened security in the United States?

6. What is the Patriot Act?

Why do some Americans strongly oppose the Patriot Act?

7. How does the U.S. use diplomacy to fight global terrorism?

8. How does the U.S. use military policy to fight global terrorism?

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