2. The last great gold rush. 1896-1899 also called the Yukon gold rush or the Alaskan gold rush.
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Who makes decisions to manage or regulate conflict in our society?
Answer: The federal government, the state government, the United States Congress with its two chambers(the House of Representatives and the Senate), and the judicial branch with all of its courts.
How are those "decision-makers" selected and by whom
Answer: United States citizens have the right to select the President of the United States and their representatives at the federal and state levels. That is why they vote.
The leader of the United States is the President, who also is the chief of the executive branch and its cabinet. He is the most important decision-maker. At the state level, it is the governor. However, the US Congress and the state's congress also play a key roll in creating legislation.
Hey, that's a great essay prompt. It often happens that when threatened by some threat to our way of life in a democracy, we respond in very undemocratic ways. During the McCarthy years, people's privacy was invaded as accusations about communists and communist sympathizers were aimed at all sorts of people. Many people in the Hollywood film industry were targeted during that time, for instance. But defenders of freedom (including film and television people) fought back against that. We must always adhere to our primary aims as a society -- the rights and liberties of each individual. We don't want to get into "witch hunts" where we suspect our neighbors of evil for no good reason.
Speaking of "witch hunts," the playwright Arthur Miller wrote a really powerful play in 1953, during the Cold War, which focused on the Salem witch trials. He was making the point that what was happening in the McCarthy era (hunting for communists) was another manifestation of the witch-burning craze that had happened at a previous time in history.
