Unit XXIV Contemporary America and Its Challenges (Chapter 42)

Unit XXIV – Contemporary America and Its Challenges (Chapter 42)

Objectives:

· Describe the changing shape of the American economy and work force and the new social and ethical challenges facing the United States in a global economy dominated by high technology and scientific innovation

· Analyze the changing structure and character of American families, and explain the social consequences of the aging of America

· Describe the impact of the great wave of immigration from Asia and Latin America since the 1970s and the challenge it posed to the traditional ideals of the melting pot

· Describe the difficulties and challenges facing American cities, including the increasing split between central cities and outer suburbs

1. Cesar Chavez

2. Condoleezza Rice

3. Barack Obama

4. Toni Morrison

5. Frank McCourt

6. Jackson Pollock

7. David Mamet

8. Frank Lloyd Wright

9. Dot-com businesses

10. Outsourcing

11. Stem cell research

12. Research universities

13. Gender gap

14. Mainstream media

15. Blogosphere

16. Information Age

17. Multiculturalism

18. Abstract expressionism

19. Pop art

20. Postmodernism

21. Microsoft Corporation

22. Human Genome Project

23. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

24. Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986

25. United Farm Workers Organizing Committee

26. National Endowment for the arts