Using what you learned in this reading, do you believe it was increased aggression (more conflict and increasing weapons) or diplomacy (talking and communicating with each other) that eventually led to the end of the Cold War? Choose either Increased Aggression or Diplomacy to answer your question. In order to get full credit you must:
1. Choose either Aggression or Diplomacy
2. Explain why you believe it was the main reason the Cold War ended.
3. Provide at least one piece of evidence that supports your answer from the reading.

the intolerable acts were punitive laws passed by the british parliament in 1774 after the boston tea party. in great britain, these laws were referred to as the coercive acts.

booker t. washington was an educator who established the tuskegee institute. washington argued that african americans should learn trades that would offer them the opportunity to be progressive citizens. instead of fighting against discrimination, washington argued that african americans should use their education and knowledge to become self-sufficient in american society and not in competition with white americans.

w.e.b du bois was the founder of the niagara movement and later the naacp, du bois disagreed with washington. he argued that african americans should consistently fight for racial equality.

ida b. wells was a journalist who wrote about the horrors of lynching in the south. wells work could be considered muckraking as it led to the development of the anti-lynching campaign.