King used a financial metaphor to refer to the lack of compliance with the civil rights that the Declaration of Independence and the Reconstruction Amendments to the US Constitution (14th and 15th) included for all US citizens, without discrimination in terms of race.
King aimed to express that the US still owed, to its black citizens, the defaulted "promissory note" that Martin Luther King Jr. had mentioned and demanded in his remarkable "I have a Dream" speech, delivered in 1963. Instead of guaranteeing the promised rights of life, of freedom, and of the pursuit of happiness, black people had received a black check, one with no funds on it and were still waiting for the payment of such debt.
Chronological thinking is the foundation of historical reasoning—the ability to examine relationships among historical events and to explain historical causality
the professional class
The Puritans were English Reformed Protestants who sought to "purify" the Church of England by ridding it of Catholic influences. They emerged as a major political force in England and came to power as a result of the First English Civil War
<span>The way President Wilson differed from other
world leaders at the Paris Peace Conference, he wanted lasting peace and
fairness, the other three members wanted </span><span>the central powers to pay.</span>
