Foundations
This Puritan sermon described Massachusetts Bay as a “city upon a hill.”
What is "A Modell of Christian Charity"?
This amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This late 1800s era was marked by rapid industrial growth alongside extreme inequality.
What is the Gilded Age?
This setting in the novel The Great Gatsby represents the consequences of industrialization and inequality in the 1920s.
What is the Valley of Ashes?
This economic crisis began in 1929 and led to widespread unemployment.
What is the Great Depression?
This Cold War term refers to the fear-driven campaign to root out suspected communists in the United States.
What is McCarthyism?
This compromise at the Constitutional Convention (1787) created a bicameral legislature balancing large and small states.
What is the Great Compromise? (Connecticut Compromise also acceptable.)
This document defended nonviolent protest against injustice after a group of white ministers told its author that he and his organization should stop causing problems and wait patiently for change.
What is “Letter from Birmingham Jail”?
This development transformed daily life by moving Americans from farms to cities.
What is industrialization?
This book is the one Montag brings with him to Faber's house in the novel Fahrenheit 451.
What is the Bible?
During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln freed slaves in the Confederacy via this document.
This post–World War II program provided economic aid to rebuild Western Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This conflict in Virginia from 1676-77 revealed deep tensions over political power between elites and ordinary colonists.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This forced migration relocated Cherokee people west of the Mississippi River.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This law aimed to break up monopolies and limit corporate power.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
In the novel Fahrenheit 451, this character’s lack of curiosity reflects a society shaped by media distraction and conformity.
Who is Mildred Montag?
Martin Luther King Jr. called for equality in his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at this event in 1963.
What is the March on Washington?
This Cold War plan offered U.S. aid to countries resisting communism, especially in Greece and Turkey.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This debate shaped how power would be divided between national and state governments in the Constitution.
What is federalism? (Federalist vs Anti-Federalist or Federalist Debates are also acceptable.)
This influential autobiography exposed the brutality of slavery and led to more widespread support of abolition.
What is Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?
This president promoted the “Square Deal” and increased government involvement in the economy.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
These two words complete the following quotation from The Great Gatsby: "They were _______ ________, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money..."
What is "careless people"?
This is the name for a group of writers and artists who celebrated Black culture and identity during the 1920s and 1930s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This addition to the Monroe Doctrine justified U.S. intervention in Latin America during the early 1900s.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This founding concern focused on preventing rule by a powerful majority faction and was most clearly articulated in Federalist 10.
What is tyranny of the majority?
This threshold concept refers to that which benefits society as a whole rather than individuals.
What is the common good?
This New Deal program created jobs through public works projects.
What is the WPA (Works Progress Administration)?
This is the name of the toothpaste being advertised on the train when Montag is on his way to Faber's and his thoughts keep getting interrupted.
What is Denham's Dentifrice?
This portion of the Bill of Rights was violated during World War II when Japanese Americans were forced into internment camps.
What is the Fifth Amendment (due process)? (Fourth also acceptable - unreasonable search and seizure.)
This Supreme Court case established judicial review, giving courts the power to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is Marbury v. Madison?