Exam Distribution. 82% and above is the A range 74% to 81% is the B range 63% to 73% is the C range 62% and down is D range and below

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1 Monday, March 26 th Review Room is opened again to review the second exam through Friday, March 30 th in the American Heritage review room 173 A SWKT Don t forget to work on your Citizenship projects. They are due in labs next week!

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3 Exam Distribution 82% and above is the A range 74% to 81% is the B range 63% to 73% is the C range 62% and down is D range and below

4 American Exceptionalism Does America have a unique mission in the world?

5 American Exceptionalism There never was a Generation that did so perfectly shake off the dust of Babylon, both as to Ecclesiastical and civil Constitution, as the first Generation of Christians that came unto this land for the Gospel s sake, where was there ever a place so like unto New Jerusalem as New-England hath been? It was once Dr. Twiss his opinion that when new-jerusalem should come down from Heaven America would be the Seat of it. Truly that such a Type and emblem of new-jerusalem, should be erected in so dark a corner of the world, is matter of deep meditation and admiration. Increase Mather, May 1677

6 iclicker quiz: America is exceptional, or different in a positive way, from other national because of its: A) Religiosity B) Optimism C) Willingness to take risks D) Openness E) America is not essentially different from other countries

7 Contradictory strains: Isolationism and Moral Leadership

8 George Washington on America s role in the World Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice? George Washington, Farewell Address

9 Thomas Jefferson on America s role in the world The last hope of human liberty rests on us. Thomas Jefferson

10 Manifest Destiny: Settlement and Displacement

11 European Imperialism

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13 American Imperialism The Monroe Doctrine, 1823 Western hemisphere closed to European colonization The Spanish American War, 1898 Theodore Roosevelt s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may... require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly... to the exercise of an international police power.

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16 Rejecting Imperialism Woodrow Wilson: Making the world safe for democracy Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Four Freedoms

17 The American Role in the World Making the World Safe for Democracy

18 World War II Isolationism or moral leadership?

19 Charles A. Lindbergh

20 FDR, State of the Union address, Jan. 6, 1941: The Four Freedoms In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

21 Freedom of Speech The first is freedom of speech and expression -- everywhere in the world.

22 Freedom to Worship The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way-- everywhere in the world.

23 Freedom from Want The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants-- everywhere in the world.

24 Freedom from Fear The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a worldwide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor-- anywhere in the world.

25 Fighting for an Ideal, not for Empire That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the socalled "new order" of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb. To that new order we oppose the greater conception--the moral order. A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear. Since the beginning of our American history we have been engaged in change, in a perpetual, peaceful revolution, a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly, adjusting itself to changing conditions without the concentration camp or the quicklime in the ditch. The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society. This nation has placed its destiny in the hands, heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women, and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere FDR, Four Freedoms, 1941

26 The Berlin Airlift, : Candy Bomber Gail S. Halvorsen of Provo, UT

27 Gordon B. Hinckley on America s role in the world Out of all the terrible sacrifices of the First World War and the Second World War, and subsequent wars, this nation has not reached out for territory to hold, but has been magnanimous in assisting those who have been impoverished by the costs of conflict. What other nation on the face of the earth has done what the American people did under the Marshall plan for the rehabilitation of Europe? We have reached out and paid a terrible price to help those of other nations. The world is so much the better, I firmly believe, for the presence of the United States of America.

28 America in the World Today The challenge of Iraq

29 Moral leadership?

30 McCain on Torture What I do mourn is what we lose when by official policy or official neglect we allow, confuse or encourage our soldiers to forget that best sense of ourselves, that which is our greatest strength--that we are different and better than our enemies, that we fight for an idea, not a tribe, not a land, not a king, not a twisted interpretation of an ancient religion, but for an idea that all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights. Senator John McCain, Newsweek, Nov. 21, 2005

31 Self-interest or Virtue?

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33 The necessity of a virtuous citizenry We have to keep winning the peace in every generation by emphasizing over and over the fundamental need for virtue in the human heart. Jeffrey R. Holland, Except the Lord Build The House, 1996

34 Free Market vs Government Intervention Innovation Competition Security Protection

35 The problem with markets Amoral: The market rewards productivity and nothing else The example of Walmart

36 To what extent should we stand aside,... and do all we can to squeeze out yet more inefficiencies, and to what extent should we lean against the current for the sake of values that global markets can t supply? Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat, p. 204