LBST 2101 Test 2 Study Guide

1. Ideology Definition Dominant ideology what does this mean, and what are the features of a dominant ideology?

2. Five key American political ideologies Economic conservative Economic liberal Radical Social conservative Social liberal

3. George Lakoff political ideology is often learned in context of family upbringing Strict father model and the corresponding view of government Nurturing parent model and the corresponding view of government

4. Lawrence Kolhbergs stages of moral development Pre-conventional Conventional Post-conventional

5. Howard Zinn text and class lecture questions What was Thomas Jeffersons preferred policy toward Native Americans before he became President and how did it change after he became President? How can we describe Andrew Jackson? What was his agenda?

What was the Trail of Tears? If you were a black slave seeking to run away, would it have been a good idea to run to the Seminole Indians? How would you have been treated by them? How can we describe James Polk? What was his agenda? What was his version of manifest destiny? Did the Federal government enforce its 1808 law banning the importation of slaves? If not, why not? What differences existed between the South and the North that led to the Civil War? Why did Lincoln wait so long to issue the Emancipation Proclamation? What did it say? How did Northerners in places like New York City and Philadelphia react to Lincolns escalation of the draft in 1863? What does this say about racism in the north? What did the 13th Amendment do? Why was the 14th Amendment necessary after the Civil War? What did the 14th Amendment do? What did the Radical Republicans stand for in the 1860s? When was the era of Reconstruction, roughly, and what policies did Reconstruction bring to the South? Who were the KKK, and what values did they stand for? What did the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision say? What was the Jim Crow system? What events occurred during the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot? To what extent was American business during the 1800s interested in expanding human and labor rights? To what extent was American labor during the 1800s satisfied that their human and labor rights were being promoted by business owners? How does the capitalism of Adam Smith differ from the so-called capitalism of the modern large corporation? According to the assigned article called Meet the Corporation how were private corporations viewed in colonial times? What rights and privileges did they enjoy back then? What is corporate personhood? When did corporations achieve this status, and how did they achieve it? How did this issue relate to the re-interpretation of the 14th Amendment by a conservative Supreme Court in the late 1880s? What was a Robber Baron and why were they called that?

What does the ideology of Social Darwinism say? Why did the Robber Barons like this ideology? What is the role of government advocated by Social Darwinists? What was the Populist Party platform? What became of the Populist Party?

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