02-The USA Flashcards by Louis Fidel

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le Mouvement pour les Droits Civiques

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the Civil Rights Movement

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un conseiller

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an advisor

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le creuset des peuples

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the melting-pot

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esclavage

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slavery

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un réfugié

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a refugee

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un parlementaire

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a Congressman

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la Chambre des représentants

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the House of Representatives

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les primaires

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primaries

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un électeur

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a voter

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un grand électeur

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an elector

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les ultraconservateurs

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ultraconservatives

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les téléprédicateurs

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televangelists

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un groupe de pression

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a lobby

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la Frontière ≠ une frontière

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the Frontier ≠ a border

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les Indiens Peau Rouge

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Red Indians

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le Far West

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the Wild West

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une terre où chacun a sa chance

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a land of opportunity

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un immigrant clandestin (2)

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an illegal immigrant, a wetback

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trier

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to sort (out)

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le transport scolaire (en bus)

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busing

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la discrimination positive

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affirmative action

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un colon (2)

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a colonist, a settler

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un pionnier

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a pioneer

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coloniser

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to settle

un ministre ≠ un ministère

a secretary ≠ a department

le ministre des Affaires étrangères (2)

The Secretary of State, State Secretary

le ministre de la Justice

the Attorney General

un avocat

an attorney

la ministère de la Défense/des Finances

the Department of Defense/the Treasury

la Cour Suprême

the Supreme Court

démissionner

to resign

mettre en accusation

to impeach

la Bannière Etoilée

the Star-Spangled Banner

abroger une loi

to repeal a law

prendre le train en marche

to jump on the bandwagon

pompom girls

des majorettes

les Amérindiens

American Indians

les Appalaches

the Appalachians

les montagnes Rocheuses (2)

the Rocky Mountains, the Rockies

le Sud Profond

the Deep South

le Plaine Herbeuse

the Prairie

la zone de culture du blé/maïs

the Wheat/Corn Belt

le lac Erié

Lake Erie

les Père Pélerins

the Pilgrim Fathers

La Chasse aux Sorcières

the Witch Hunt

the Thirteen Colonies

les Treize Colonies

le Déplacement des Indiens

the Indian Removal Act

la Ruée vers l'Or

the Gold Rush

la guerre de Sécession

the Civil War

faire sécession

secede

un Sudiste

a Confederate

un Nordiste

a Unionist, a Yankee

la Baie des Cochons

the Bay of Pigd

the Civil Rights Movement

le Mouvement pour les Droits Civiques

la Guerre du Vietnam

the Vietnam War