In [BLANK-1], Robert and Helen Lynd’s 1929 sociological study of Muncie, Indiana, the husband-and-wife team concluded that new leisure activities, forms of entertainment, and America’s increased emphases on consumption had taken its toll on America’s democracy. These authors determined that the American public was largely uninformed and uninterested in political matters, preferring entertainment and consumer comforts to politics as a public focus. Democracy (requiring an informed public to succeed) was being undermined by American apathy and stupidity.

Repeating a litany of lies and distortions by the sitting President of the United States, Donald Trump, on January 6, 2021 thousands of right-wing protestors stormed the U.S. Capitol Building in an attempt to [BLANK-1] and prevent the certification of the 2020 election which had seen Joseph Biden defeat the incumbent Trump. Without any evidence, Trump had claimed widespread election fraud and earlier that morning had urged his followers to “fight like hell. If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.” His supporters then invaded the Capitol Building (the first invasion of the building since the British had sacked Washington D.C. during the War of 1812 more than 200 years before), attacked the Capitol Police and D.C. Metropolitan Police, and called for the execution of Vice-President Mike Pence (who had agreed to authenticate the results of the free-and-fair election and refused to abide by a fake electors conspiracy put forward by Trump). 150 police officers were injured, one officer was killed by repeated beatings with a fire extinguisher, another suffered a heart attack from being shocked by his own stun gun, and one Capitol invader was shot and killed by police while attempting to break into the House chamber. Donald Trump would be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors against the United States around a month later, but fell short of being removed from office by the Senate.

[BLANK-1] was the United States’ top-secret, expensive, and ambitious attempt to develop an atomic bomb before the Germans during WWII. Secret labs in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Los Alamos, New Mexico, and other locations succeeded in refining uranium and plutonium. An atomic bomb (Trinity) was successfully detonated in July of 1945 under the supervision of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Two additional bombs would be used against Japan to hasten the end of the war.

Key Terms:The 1952 Republican Primary Election​​The Battle of Okinawa​Brown v. Board of Education​The Comic Code Authority​Casablanca​Dennis v. United States​The Dulles Brothers​The Elections of 1960​The Manhattan Project​The Marshall Plan​The Mont Pelerin Society​The New Look​NSC-68​Operation Barbarossa​Operation Overlord​Operation Wetback​The Southern Manifesto​The Stimson Doctrine​The Truman Doctrine​The UN Security Council

Involved in the Teapot Dome Bribery Scandal and other forms of malfeasance, [BLANK-1] was an example of the incredible political corruption of Warren G. Harding’s presidential administration.

During the nineteenth century, Hawaii was ruled by an oligarchy of American-owned sugar companies known as [BLANK-1]. Christian missionaries worked alongside the business interest of these white American elites with their missionary work in Hawaii. This group ultimately led a revolution against Queen Liliuokalani in 1893 and appealed to President Benjamin Harrison for annexation. Hawaii was officially annexed by the United States in 1898.

A Scottish immigrant to America and steel magnate, [BLANK-1] was one of America’s wealthiest men and exemplified the complexities of America’s Gilded-Age millionaires (were they robber barons or captains of industry?). The man gained a fortune through owning a monopoly of steel firms and by employing vertical integration tactics. On the one hand, he was a great philanthropist. He wrote The Gospel of Wealth and donated much of his vast fortune to charity. On the other hand, he was a brutal employer who worked his employees 364 days a year and used Pinkerton Agents to break up unions and bust strikes.

In the agrarian south during Reconstruction, [BLANK-1] replaced slavery as one of the dominant forms of labor. African Americans initially favored this form of labor, as it awarded them some degree of autonomy from white overseers; however, over time, the system could lead to spiraling debt and frequently turned out to be a repressive form of labor.

Your instructor’s name for this course is Mrs. Dorman 

The nurse is caring for a patient with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) who is receiving mechanical ventilation. The nurse monitors for which complication? Select all that apply. One, some, or all responses may be correct.