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Midterm Flashcards

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What are the 10 Cs of leadership

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Curiosity
Creativity
Communication 
Character
Courage
Conviction
Charisma
Competence
Common sense
Crisis forges leadership
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What are the 6 truisms of leadership

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Leadership involves the power of persuasion

Status does not gaur tee you are a leader

Having authority does not guarantee you are a leader

Managers are not necessarily good leaders

Do leaders make history or does history make leaders

The verdict of history can determine who was a leader

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What is the carry conceal reciprocity act

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The NRA legislation that want people to be able to carry and conceal licensed weapons across state lines

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What did trump say the state of the Union was

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The state of the Union is strong because the people are strong

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What were trumps four pillars of immigration in the state of the Union address

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  1. ) pathway to citizenship
  2. ) end chain migration
  3. ) end the visa lottery system
  4. ) build the wall
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Name some key elements of trumps state of the Union address

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1.5 trillion infrastructure plan
Clean coal
Americans are dreamers to
Tax bill is good
Bringing jobs back to the U.S.
Fight drug epidemic
New immigration policies
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What is analysis paralysis

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When somebody has an information overload and cannot speak well in debates or speech

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What are instincts

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enacted feelings or behaviors that are not learned or notified by experience

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What is the rule of political instincts

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Know your audience

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What is the fault, with the carry conceal reciprocity act

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It would make the loosest gun laws the national laws and contradicts state laws

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What is the hypocrisy in the carry conceal reciprocity act

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The republicans want a national carry conceal legislation and they are usually anti federal government and want to choices on regulation to be given to the states

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Name the 5 relationships between power and leadership

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  1. ) just because you have power does not mean you are a leader
  2. ) some people acquire power by virtue of position
  3. ) some people have power by virtue of their leadership attributes
  4. ) power can be used to intimidate followers
  5. ) the non-use of power can result in accomplishing goals
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Name the 8 sources of power

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  1. ) being in proximity to someone who has power
  2. ) brute strength
  3. ) organizational positions can give you power
  4. ) belief systems
  5. ) public opinion
  6. ) symbols of power
  7. ) information
  8. ) money
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What is the most common source of power today

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Organizational positions

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Why were instincts more important before the Information Age

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Leaders had to have instincts to gauge audiences. The Information Age came because people thought the best leaders had the best calculations and strategies

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What is the false premise of instincts

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Successful leaders owe their success to calculations and strategy -conventional wisdom

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How old was mlk when he was asked to lead the civil rights movement

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What was MLKs policy on protests

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They need to be nonviolent

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True or fals MLK knew he would die before he was 40

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True, he always had premonitions

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What did Hoover have on MLK and why did he not like him

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Hoover believed in segregation and had videos of mlk having affairs
-eventually sent them to corettA

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What did mlk devote his time to after the civil rights bills were passed

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He protested against the Vietnam war and then poverty

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Where was mlk shot and what speech did he give before it

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Promised land speech
Shot in Memphis
Sent cities into riots

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Who helped mlk get the civil rights bills passed

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Robert Kennedy

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What did king use to his advantage at the Birmingham protests

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Used the press and the news- power of television

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What happened when MLK was arrested in Birmingham

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Wrote the letter from a Birmingham jail and spired the nation

26
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When and what was the march on Washington

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August 28 1963
200 thousand people assemble in the largest peaceful assembly in history
MLK give his I have a dream speech

27
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What bill did LBJ pass

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Civil rights act of 1964 outlawing segregation and

Civil rights act 1965 voting rights act

28
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Who killed mlk

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James earl Ray

Found. In London- conspiracy

29
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How did LBJ become president and was his transition like

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Jfk died and he was Vice President

Fought transition because he was an instant president and had to immediately consolidate his power

30
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What u did LBJ presidency

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Pursuit of the Vietnam war

31
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What was LBJ called in the senate

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The lion of the senate

32
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What did LBJ use to intimidate people and why is he treated with distant

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His height

The kennedys didn’t really want him there. He was just their ticket to the other half of the DNC

33
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What was lbs relationship with power

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Knew how to look find and use power

34
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What was the best address to the nation and who gave it

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Challenger disaster

Given by Ronald Reagan after the challenger exploded mid flight

35
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What did Ronald Reagan do before his presidency

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Radio to TV and movie actor to president of screen actors guild movement runs for California governor does well and then the presidency

36
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How did Reagan die

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Alzheimer’s

37
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What was reagents greatest enemy

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Communism

38
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What was Reagan greatest accomplishment

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Signing the INF treaty

39
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Who did Reagan work with on the inf treaty

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Gorbachev

40
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What happens that changed reagents outlook

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Got shot, but survived

41
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What was reagents scandal

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U.S. Sent weapons to iranand the only went to rebels in Nicaragua

42
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What was reagents nickname

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The great communicator

43
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What did Reagan do for American conservatism

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Injected social issues into conservative movement creating today’s Republican Party

44
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What was bobby Kennedy raised to do

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Help his brother’s become president

45
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What was bobby Kennedy before and urging JFKs presidency

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Lawyer before and attorney general during

46
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What was Bobbi’s first great enemy

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Communism

47
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What was Bonny’s presidential campaign based on

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Fighting poverty and inequality

48
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What crisis did he fix for JFKs

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Bay of pugs and the Cuban missile crisis

49
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How was bobby seen by others

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Rude arrogant angry who would do anything to help JFK win

50
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How was bobby really

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A strong moralist who was very religious

51
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What war did bobby declare

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War on crime -battles mob bosses

52
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What was bob by in charge of when it came to Cuba

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Getting rid of Castro without implicated a Kennedy

53
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Who hated bobby and why

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LBJ hated him because he was to moralistic and bobby hated the politics that LBJ loved

54
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What social movement did bobby help reluctantly at first and the full force

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The civil rights movement

-had to convince JFK to take up the movement and have legislation for equality

55
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Why was bobby afraid of Hoover

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Didn’t want him to black mail jfk about affairs

56
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What happens to bobby when Jack was killed

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Physically hurt and saddened for a long time
Unsure of what to do with his life now that he doesn’t have his brother to help
Struggled to define himself and what he stood for

57
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What made bobby decide to run for the presidency and why was he hesitant

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Did not want to run against his brothers judgement by running against LBJ
Vietnam launched major attack and LBJ leaves race
Thinks he can beat McCarthy and was

58
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How did bobby plan to win the presidency

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Through the people

Saving the soul of the country

59
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What does bobby do after mlk dies

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Gives speech at planned campaign and keeps Indian from rioting with talks of understanding beyond difficult times and feels of grief

60
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What happens in California

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Finally shakes jfks shadow and gets assassinated

Long grief train with irish wake

61
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What was bobby know for quoting

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Escapes and great classics and poets

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