1. How does the size of government change in relation to its involvement (or uninvolvement)?

2. Place the uninvolved state in a historical period. What was the center of government

activities?

3. What does "fostering the well-being of the emergent business class" mean? Explain it in your own words

4. What were the three preconditions for this well-being? Explain each in your own words.

5. What legal document mandates the protection of private property? After the civil war, what business group became dominant? What was this group's main activity?

6. Why military intervention? Where?

7. What kind of infrastructure support did the government extend to the business class?

8. What factors contributed to the emergence of the Progressive movement? What group was behind it? What was the Sherman Anti-Trust Ad? And how is all this related to the

government's goal of "fostering the well-being of the emergent business class7

9. Who were the Wobblies? What were some of the consequences of their actions on labor legislation? Thanks God, workers had the courts on their side, right?

10. Define and compare sympathy strikes and closed shops.

11. Define poor relief. Who benefited from it? How was it distributed?

12. Who was Huey Long?

13. What major literary work was written depicting the social conditions during the great

depression? Who was the author? What is the New Deal? What programs did it include?

14. How are "citizen wage" and the New Deal programs related? Is citizen wage the same as living wage?

15. What is the central distinction between social insurance programs and public assistance programs?

16. What was the impact of social security on the poor? What social security also very successful improving the lot of unmarried or divorced women?

17. AFDC is the largest welfare expenditure, right?

18. How do wars stimulate economic activity? Explain in detail.

19. Who was Joseph McCarthy? Why is he known? What year are we talking about?

20. Why is military spending attractive to business and government?

21. What kind of woman symbolized the welfare system? What was the real threat and why?

22. President R. Reagan's policies attacked the middle-class, right?

23. What conservative group lead the family values movement? Who was the target of this movement's attack?

24. Locate the distracted state in a historical period.

25. What are the two main obstacles to military intervention nowadays?

26. Why did Ruben say that the global economy makes it difficult to stabilize a given nation's wages or unemployment? In this context, what is GATT?

27. Define and explain the Fiscal Crisis.

28. TV's extraordinary influence in the world teaches the value of democracy to less developed societies, right?

29. What is identity politics and how is it different from party alignment? Why is this important?

30. What is the main technological tool used by new socia