Answer:
Simultaneously
Explanation:
Simultaneously means something is occurring at the same time. In the context of this excerpt, the state and federal governments are working at the same time to create the best possible lives for its citizens.
The significance of this quote is Montag's realization of what his job is actually about and what it implies. He became a fireman because he was meant to. However, he is now haunted by this new feeling and does not know anymore what is right and what is wrong.
America passed the intolerable acts after the Boston Tea Party, where colonists dressed as indians and threw tea overboard England's ships, because we were sick of the taxation. The intolerable Acts were a set of laws limiting what Britain could do.