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The Burning was a tragedy, but perhaps the greater tragedy was that the event was largely forgotten by both the white and black communities. Why did people forget about the Burning? What effect does forgetting have on the way we present history? Make sure you use specific examples from the text in your answer. (20 points)

In Loving v. Virginia (1967), the Supreme Court

______ compels state governments to obey costly federal regulations but does not reimburse those costs.

Most of the provisions related to the rights of the criminally accused were incorporated during the

________ defended the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre.

The doctrine of nullification asserted that

The first test for determining when the government may intervene to suppress political speech was called the ______ test.

If a government led by a dictator was replaced with a government where a large number of citizens exercised influence over decision-making, this change would best be characterized as a shift from a(n)

The principle of ______ gives the federal government the power to override any state or local law in one particular area of policy.

When the speaker of John Donne’s “The Flea” writes that “This flea is you and I, and this / Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is,” he is making an implied comparison between the flea and the relationship he has with the woman in the poem. Such an implied comparison is called