American culture

American culture

Art, music, literature, people, sports, technology, business, politics, religion and more in the United States. American culture is primarily Western, but is influenced by African, Asian, and Latin American and Native American cultures.

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restrictive covenants

Culture; American culture

Privately negotiated written agreements, which are binding on succeeding property owners, imposing limitations on the use and ownership of real property. Pre-dating governmental zoning and land-use ...

lawyers

Culture; American culture

Professionals educated in graduate programs and licensed by state bar associations to prepare and plead cases in lower courts and appeals courts, as well as to provide legal counsel to clients. The ...

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

Culture; American culture

Proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that was designed to do away with all sexually discriminatory laws and practices. Approved by Congress in 1972, it was never ratified by the ...

Peace Corps

Culture; American culture

Proposed by John Kennedy on the campaign trail in 1960. The idea of American volunteers scattering around the world to promote democracy and development came to epitomize the sometimes contradictory ...

television and minorities

Culture; American culture

Protests by NAACP, La Raza and other activists in 1999 highlighted the absence of minority characters on new network shows, leading NBC, ABC, FOX and CBS to scramble to retrofit, offering and forcing ...

marijuana

Culture; American culture

Psychoactive drug derived from cannabis sativa that has become a symbol of freedom or decay depending on audience, regulators and use. Federal surveys of the 1990s noted that 69 million Americans ...