Aspects of America

[kandrathe]

I'm a little late to this party but i'm a bit disappointed that what has been mentioned is mostly phrases which are culturaly maleable.

Manifest Destiny is a great term for this idea, it has a specific meaning and carries all sorts of implications for the time period as well as the development America took.

Were you to do this project again I would offer these to add: Carpetbaggers, Uncle Tom, Scopes Monkey Trial, Alien and Sedition Acts, Transcendentalism, Temperance, Jim Crow, Gospel of Wealth, Social Darwinism, Knights of Labor, The Gilded Age, Dollar Diplomacy, Muckrakers, Red Scare, Harlem Renaissance, McCarthyism, New Federalism...

These are just off the top of my head. some are more defining than others.

Yeah, I chose particular quotes that represent various important times in US history. If you research who said it, then it opens to a broader context for discussion. For example, the quote "I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say." was said by Nixon.