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By the People Brief 6e Supplemental Resources
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- Chapter 01 - Ideas that Shape American Politics
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- Chapter 05 - The Struggle for Civil Rights
- Chapter 06 - Public Opinion and Political Participation
- Chapter 07 - Media, Technology, and Government
- Chapter 08 - Campaigns and Elections
- Chapter 09 - Interest Groups and Political Parties
- Chapter 10 - Congress
- Chapter 11 - The Presidency
- Chapter 12 - Bureaucracy
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See For Yourself Video Quiz: Students challenge Florida Senator Marco Rubio
Please Note: This resource is supplemental to the primary course materials.
Students from Florida question one of their Senators, Marco Rubio, at a Town Hall regarding gun control, campaign donations, and monetary influence in politics.
See For Yourself Video: Tom Lehrer's song about Miller v. California
Please Note: This resource is supplemental to the primary course materials.
Tom Lehrer protests Miller v. California, in which obscene speech was defined to include speech that arouses prurient interest without redeeming cultural value.
See For Yourself Video Quiz: How the nation responded to the events in Charlottesville
Please Note: This resource is supplemental to the primary course materials.
A short video recapping the white nationalist protests in Charlottesville (and the criticism of it), as well as the counter-protest in response.
See For Yourself Video Quiz: Excerpts from Roosevelt's fiery 1936 campaign speech, "Let Me Warn You"
Please Note: This resource is supplemental to the primary course materials.
President Roosevelt “warns” the American public who claims to believe in his social welfare agenda without truly supporting them in policy.
See For Yourself Video: James Surowiecki on the power and danger of crowds, including online 'mobs'
Please Note: This resource is supplemental to the primary course materials.
The speaker questions the ability of blogs, and the internet more generally, to both provide information, but cautions against the underlying “dark side” of online participation to mobilize anger and dissatisfaction with little moderation.
Hear For Yourself: "Medicare Will Bring a Socialist Dictatorship" - Ronald Reagan
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A 1961 LP of Ronald Regan arguing how government intervention in medicine (through a program like Medicare) might lead to a broader socialist movement across more realms of social policy.
See For Yourself Video Quiz: President Trump chats with Fox & Friends hosts in 2018
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President Trump uses a 2018 interview with a friendly cable news channel, Fox News, to note the bias he perceives around news coverage of how his presidential administration has created policy.
See For Yourself Video Quiz: The controversial "Daisy" ad from 1964
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In one of the most controversial political ads of all time, the Johnson campaign uses a cute child counting to implicitly frighten voters into support with the threat of nuclear war.
See for Yourself Video Quiz: Excerpts from the 1960 Nixon/Kennedy debate
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Essentially a full 1960 presidential debate between Nixon and Kennedy is shown, illustrating the power of radio (which favored Nixon) and television (which favored Kennedy).
See For Yourself Video: Trump supporters shout "Build a Wall" on the Mexican border
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Trump supporters at a Trump rally begin to shout “Build a Wall” as the then-candidate Trump discussed immigration policy at a campaign rally.
See For Yourself Video: Senator George Allen's "Macaca Moment"
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Senator George Allen holds a small campaign rally event in 2006 in Virginia, derisively referring to an opponent’s staffer by an ethnic slang in front of his supporters.
See For Yourself Video: President Trump criticizing Amazon in 2018, helping spur the e-commerce giant to double its lobbying force
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President Trump criticizes the postal rates that Amazon gets through the United States Postal Service.
See For Yourself Video Quiz: President Eisenhower's warning against the military-industrial complex Copy
Please Note: This resource is supplemental to the primary course materials.
President Eisenhower justifies the need for the defense industry in an uncertain global world, but warns of the potential political influence such an industry could wield.
See For Yourself Video Quiz: A fictional filibuster: Senator Smith's noble moment, in the movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
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A fictional filibuster from the movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is shown, indicating a dramatized and unlikely back-and-forth debate as filibuster.
See For Yourself Video: President George W. Bush's Dramatic Bullhorn Speech at Ground Zero
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President George W. Bush gives a speech at Ground Zero after the attacks on September 11, 2001, showing his role in foreign policy and in leading American public opinion.
See For Yourself Video Quiz: The History and Operation of the Federal Register
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A panel of developers in San Francisco describe their application which trawls the Federal Register, a comprehensive log of the activities of the United States federal government.
See For Yourself Video Quiz: Discussion of the Plessy case
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The lineage of the infamous case Plessy v. Ferguson is described, specifically laying out how the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment had been twisted to permit “equality” by justifying “separate but equal” institutions.
See For Yourself Video: Ronald Reagan's Speech in Berlin: "Tear down this wall"
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President Reagan delivers remarks in Berlin, suggesting the leader of the Soviet Union to tear down the Berlin Wall as a symbol of increasing openness to the democracies of Western Europe and the United States.