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Civilization
Major Notions
The British Isles
History
British Institutions
Religion
Hadrian's wall
1066
The Domesday Book
The Magna Carta
The Black Death
The War of the Roses
The Gunpowder Plot
The Glorious Revolution
The Bill of Rights (1689)
Rotten Boroughs
Reform Acts
Poor Laws and Workhouses
The Order of the Garter
The Lion and the Unicorn
Whigs and Tories
First-Past-the-Post
Brexit
UKIP
Accountability
House of Lords and House of
Commons
Front and Back Benchers
Number 10
The Cabinet / The Shadow Cabinet
The King's or Queen's speech
The Establishment
The TUC
The Third Sector
Tabloids/ Broadsheets/the Fourth
Estate
Ofcom
Cockney
NHS/ A GP
MI5/ MI6
Liberal (in British politics)
The Book of Common Prayer
The Authorized Version
Anglicanism and High Church
The Archbishop of Canterbury
Dissenters and Non-Conformists
United Kingdom and Empire Traditions
Education
The rose/leek/ thistle/ shamrock
The Kirk
Hogmanay
Auld Lang Syne
The Commonwealth
Sinn Féin
The IRA
Bloody Sunday
Acts of Union
Devolution
The Three Rs
GCSE/ A-Levels
Comprehensive schools
Grammar Schools
Public Schools
LEA
College
Oxbridge
Town and Gown
Alumni
A BA/ a PhD
A Graduate/ A Post-Graduate
PGCE
CAE
ESOL
SATS tests
Ofsted
Guy Fawkes Day
Poppy Day
The Gentlemen's clubs.
The United States of America
History
Institutions
Minorities
The Pilgrim Fathers
The Mayflower
The Founding Fathers
The Bill of Rights (1791)
Civil War
Prohibition
The Gilded Age
The New Deal
McCarthyism
Watergate
The New Economy
Checks and Balances
Star-Spangled Banner
The Pledge of Allegiance
« In God we trust »
Thanksgiving
Flag Day
Congress/ the Capitol/ the Hill
The White House
The Pentagon
The Secretary of State
The State of the Union Address
The GOP, Elephant and Donkey
The Tea Party
Lame Duck
The Fourth Estate
A Green card
A pink slip
The Big Three
« Three strikes and you're out. »
FBI/ CIA
NASA
Liberal ( American Politics)
Little Big Horn/ Wounded Knee
The Trail of Tears
The Jim Crow Laws
NAACP
« 40 acres and a mule »
The Civil Rights Act
Affirmative Action
Bussing
Lobbying
Glass Ceiling
Mommy Track
Pink-collar jobs
Space and ideology
Education
Entertainment
The Mason-Dixon Line
Yankee
The Frontier
Manifest Destiny
The Monroe Doctrine
« Rags to Riches »
WASP
Protestant Work Ethic
Bible Belt
Corn Belt
Rust Belt
Sun Belt
The Ivy League
Alma Mater
MIT
A Think Tank
Magnet schools
TOEFL/TOEIC
ACT/SAT
Freshman
Sophomore
Junior
Senior
Fraternity
Commencement Day
Broadway
Off-Broadway
Off-Off-Broadway