1800s
This change caused people to leave rural areas and move into cities for work.
urbanization/industrialization
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South after Reconstruction.
Jim Crow Laws
This protest lasted over a year and targeted segregation on city buses.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This senator led investigations into suspected communists.
Joseph McCarthy
This text centers its critique on utilitarianism
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
This movement pushed back against industrialization by emphasizing emotion and the natural world.
Romanticism
This system replaced slavery but maintained economic dependence through exploitative agreements.
Sharecropping
This law ended literacy tests and poll taxes
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
This strategy aimed to stop the spread of a communism without direct war.
Containment
The fear of losing humanity as a result of progress was a central fear in this Poe text.
The Man Who was Used Up
The Homestead Act incentivized settlers to move west by giving them this.
Free land to cultivate
These laws were enacted to restrict the employment and mobility of Black Americans.
Bonus: Which constitutional amendment outlawed them?
Black Codes
BONUS: 14th amendment
This strategy allowed global influence without direct conflict between superpowers.
Proxy wars
This economic theory suggested benefits given to the wealthy would eventually help everyone.
Trickle Down
This film critiques consumer culture by revealing that hidden messages in advertising
They Live
This forced migration moved the Cherokee and other Native nations to present-day Oklahoma.
Trail of Tears
This policy attempted to replace Native communal land ownership with individual property ownership.
Dawes Act
This Civil Rights leader believed in Black Nationalism and separatism
Malcolm X
The four pillars of Reaganomics are tax cuts, tax cuts, reduced government spending, controlling the money supply to reduce inflation, and this.
Deregulation
This element in Night of the Living Dead reflects real-world racial tensions beyond the surface plot.
Death of the main character at the hands of the police
This agreement added a massive amount of land to the United States in 1803.
Louisiana Purchase
This Supreme Court decision ruled that “separate but equal” facilities were constitutional.
Plessy v Ferguson
This post–WWII U.S. program gave aid to rebuild Europe and stop the spread of communism.
Marshall Plan
This movement targeted LGBTQ+ individuals under the assumption they were security risks.
Lavender Scare
In Invasion of the Body Snatchers and They Live this anxiety about society is revealed.
fear of control and loss of individuality