Making Connections: Complexity and Synthesis

City Upon a Hill

John Winthrop / Ronald Reagan

Religious Dissenters

Anne Hutchinson / Second Great Awakening

Boycotts

Stamp Act Boycott / Martin Luther King Jr.

The Impact of Best-Selling Books

Thomas Paine: Common Sense / Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Women's Rights

Abigail Adams: "Remember the ladies" / Seneca Falls Convention

Isolationism

Washington's Farewell Address / Refusal to support League of Nations / Neutrality Acts

Nullification

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions / John C. Calhoun

The Impact of Hard Times

Martin Van Buren / Herbert Hoover

Nativism

"No Irish Need Apply" signs / Know Nothing Party / Immigrant Restriction League

Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau: "Civil Disobedience" / Martin Luther King Jr.: "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

National Transportation Networks

Transcontinental railroads / Interstate highway system

Official Indian Policy

Dawes Act / Indian Reorganization Act

African Americans and the Democratic Party

New Deal / endorsed civil rights

Woman and the Workforce

WWII / "The Feminine Mystique"

Fear of Radicalism

Know Nothing Party / Second Great Scare

Outspoken Critics of American Wars

Abraham Lincoln and Henry David Thoreau - Mexican-American War, Jane Addams and Mark Twain - annexation of Philippines, Senators Wayne Morse and Ernest Tonkin Gulf Resolution / West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd - invasion of Afghanistan