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| According to Streitmatter, what is the least admirable characteristic of the news organizations that have shaped American history? |
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| Their acceptance to the limitations of news media. |
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| According to Streitmatter, Sam Adams used which of the following to spur colonial dissent? |
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Through the “Journal of Occurrences,” he and his radical associates artfully
mobilized colonial public opinion against the British troops stationed in Boston,
and therefore against the crown. |
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| According to Streitmatter, Sam Adams was known best for which of the following? |
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Best known of the early writers was Sam Adams, the cousin of John Adams and
the man who would, in 1773, organize the Boston Tea Party. |
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| According to Streitmatter, northern progressives thought abolition was critical to which of the following? |
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| According to Streitmatter, William Lloyd Garrison was which of the following? |
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| The top abolitionist editor |
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| According to Streitmatter, the two most important events of thr 28th and 19th centuries were which of the following? |
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| Armed Conflicts (Revolutionay and Civil War) |
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| According to Streitmatter, who was the most mportant revolutionary writer of the colonial era? |
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| According to Streitmatter, what publication "played a single role" in making revolutionaries? |
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| According to Streitmatter, the Founding Fathers left women out because of which of the following reasons? |
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| Traditional Western though - women serves the man. |
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| According to Streitmatter, what was the resolution that created the most controversy at Seneca Falls? |
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| Declaration of Sentiments |
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According to Streitmatter, how did mainstream newspapers portray men in the women's movement?
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“Aunt Nancys,” suggesting, by innuendo, that men who supported women’s
rights were either homosexual or totally dominated by their wives |
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| According to Streitmatter, what other movement helped propel women's rights in the early 20th century? |
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| According to Streitmatter, Thomas Nast's cartoons in what publication helped expose the corruption of the Tweed Ring? |
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| According to Streitmatter, Boss Tweed said New York Times stories on him didn't matter because of which of the following? |
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| His costituent's could not read. |
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| According to Streitmatter, U.S. Grant and Abe Lincoln credited Thomas Nast with which of the following? |
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| Saving the country, presrving the union, and bringing the way to an end. |
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| According to Streitmatter, Boss Tweed controlled newspapers by doing which of the following? |
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| Buying ads and paying off reporters. |
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| According to Streitmatter, which newspapers joined Nast in his campaign against Tammany Hall? |
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| According to Streitmatter, what lesson did the Tweed scandal teach about journalism? |
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| A free press makes a difference |
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| Culture as process means which of the following: |
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| Delivers the values of a society through products of other meaning making forms |
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| How does media create culture? |
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| Process called "negotiation" - the interaction of the symbols and ideas in the media you consume with the symbols and ideas already in your head |
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| How does change come to culture history? |
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-Individuals alter culture
- social movements alter culture
- technology alters culture |
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| Which of the following was Guttenberg's big development ? |
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| First to link moveable type and press. |
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| What too did King Henry VIII use to control information? |
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| What was the importance of the book Aeropagitica? |
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| Contributing to lapse in licensing in 1695. |
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| Which of the following were the only Americans here when colonists arrived? |
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| Which of the following pairs represents the reaons the colonies existed? |
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| To provide raw materials for England (extraction) and to provide a market for goods made in England (absorption). |
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| Most news in the colonies came from which of the following? |
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| How did the king control the postal system in the colonies? |
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| Which of the following controlled the printers in the colonies? |
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| What has to happen in order for change to happen in America? |
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| Interests build in democracy, fewer controls, printers gain influence, and literacy rate increasing. |
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| The ferderalists supported: |
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What two questions were dealt with at the Constitutional Convention?
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How much power, state vs. feds?
How will individual rights be protected? |
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| Who was the President responsible for the Alien and Sedition Acts? |
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| According to Streitmatter, newspaper coverage of what incident beame the trigger for the Spanish American War? |
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| According to Streitmatter, what was the msot significant factor in the resistance to the Ku Klux Klan? |
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| According to Streitmatter, the battle between Hearst and Pulitzer resulted in what kind of journalism? |
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| According to Streitmatter, who was nicknamed the "Terror of the Trusts? |
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| According to Streitmatter, what muckraker examined the enormous power of labor unions? |
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| According to Streitmatter, which of the follwoing papers DID NOT win a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the KKK? |
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| Papers that did: New York World, Memphis Commercial Appeal |
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| According to Streitmatter, the press forced President McKinley to change his position on which of the following? |
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| According to Streitmatter, some historians say the U.S.S. Maine may have been blown up by which of the following? |
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| According to Streitmatter, who coined the phrase "muckracker?" |
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| President Theodore Roosevelt |
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| According to Streitmatter, one of the enduring results of muckraking was which of the following? |
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| More professionalized government |
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| According to Streitmatter, who was the first muckraker? |
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| According to Streitmatter, which of these played an important role in resistance to the Ku Klux Klan? |
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| According to Streitmatter, which of the following groups was NOT a target of the KKK? |
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| According to Streitmatter, how did most American newspapers react to the KKK? |
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| With support and they paid little attention. |
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| According to Streitmatter, the KKK was known by nickname? |
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| According to Streitmatter, the New York World asked NYC politicians to go on record on what issue? |
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| Their feelings about the clan. |
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| According to Streitmatter, how did Tennessee lawmakers respond to the Klan expose in the Montgomery Advertiser? |
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| According to Streitmatter, the Klan grew primarily in which region? |
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| According to Streitmatter, where does the term "Rosie the Riveter" come from? |
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| A Norman Rockwell cover illustration on the Saturday Evening Post |
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| According to Streitmatter, what medium was most successful in recruiting women workers in the defense contracting hub of Seattle? |
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| According to Streitmatter, how did the media convince women to work, overcoming what had been the "stigma of enconomic necessity?" |
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| They pictured work to be glamorous |
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According to Streitmatter, what newspaper published a profile of working mother "Alma" to reassure mothers about taking on industrial jobs?
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| According to Streitmatter, African-American women experienced which of the following duing WWii? |
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| They were free again (2nd emancipation) |
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| According to Streitmatter, the Radio Priest was forced off the air for his radical stands on which of the following? |
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| According to Streitmatter, which of the following was NOT one of the Radio Preist's likely audiences? |
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| According to Streitmatter, who pioneered broadcasting in religion? |
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| Which is NOT true about Benjamin Franklin? |
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| He was not a man of the people looking out for the interest of the common man. |
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What do we call the interaction of the symbols and ideas in the media you consume with
the symbols and ideas already in your head? |
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