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  1. What effect did mass production have on society?

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  2. What role did John C. Frémont play in establishing an American presence in California?

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  3. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book about the evils of slavery?

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  4. What happened within a year of United States Navy Commodore Matthew Perry's arrival in Tokyo Bay in 1853?

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  5. What has the digitization of books done for out-of-print books?

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  6. In its 1972 Furman v. Georgia ruling, why did the Supreme Court strike down all state laws allowing the death penalty?

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  7. How did President Richard Nixon avoid being impeached?

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  8. How did the Northwest Ordinance provide for the country's expansion?

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  9. Who negotiated to gain Alaska as a United States territory?

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  10. Why would the natives turn on the French when the French had made greater effort to live among the Indians and trade more with them?

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  11. What is the number one cause of death in the United States each year?

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  12. What did Lyndon Johnson say when he addressed Americans after the Selma march?

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  13. What new state was formed during the Civil War?

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  14. What political party did Theodore Roosevelt represent in the 1912 presidential election?

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  15. From about 1830 until the 1850s, what two parties dominated the American politics?

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  16. What happened to the U.3. incarceration rate between 1975 and today?

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  17. What were the last two states to join the Union?

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  18. Whom did Thomas Jefferson defeat in the 1800 presidential election?

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  19. What happened to Roosevelt's "court-packing" plan?

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  20. In what year was the Albany Plan for Union proposed?

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  21. Would Socratic be a good place to ask a question about US law?

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  22. Why did Franklin think it was surprising when the Constitution was as good as it was?

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  23. Why did more job opportunities become available to African Americans in 1915?

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  24. Why have troops stayed in Afghanistan?

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  25. The Anti-federalists demanded a series of amendments to the Constitution to protect individual liberties. They were adopted in 1791 and are known as what?

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  26. When the international slave trade ended, how did the slave trade continue?

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  27. What did the Supreme Court order U.S. schools to do in 1954?

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  28. What was the significance of the Confederate surrender at Vicksburg?

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  29. How did American immigration policy change at the end of the 19th century into the 20th century?

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  30. Why did settlers need to be able to use the Mississippi River?

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  31. Why did Cassius Clay change his name to Muhammad Ali?

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  32. How do you describe the relationship between colonists and American Indians in the early days of the Georgia colony?

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  33. How did General U. S. Grant become famous during the winter of 1861-1862?

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  34. Why were the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention kept a secret?

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  35. What was the primary reason for holding the Constitutional Convention of 1787?

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