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  1. Describe President Wilson's response when Germany sank three American merchant ships on March 8, 1917?

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  2. Why was President Wilson disappointed in the Versailles treaty?

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  3. What did the Union government tax in order to help meet the cost of the war?

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  4. How did the Cherokee Indians become civilized?

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  5. Why were Americans so delighted by movies in the 1920s?

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  6. How did the Whiskey Rebellion reveal George Washington's concern with national security?

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  7. Who wrote several compromises to keep peace between the North and South?

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  8. What political, economic, and social effects did World War I have on the United States?

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  9. How does the Dawes Act still affect native americans today?

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  10. According to Douglass, what was happening in the North in 1863?

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  11. What objection did Jefferson have to the new federal Constitution?

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  12. What effect did the "Acts" (Intolerable, Stamp, Tea, etc.) have on the colonies?

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  13. How are Emma Lazarus and the American Dream related?

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  14. Why did MLK write "Letter from Birmingham Jail"?

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  15. Identify two problems resulting from urban sprawl in the western region of the United States. If these problems are not solved, what will the outcome likely be?

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  16. Was the trial of tears a federal policy? If yes or no, why?

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  17. Why did minority groups receive limited benefits from Progressivism?

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  18. What is glasnost?

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  19. Would the Civil War have happened if the US had not expanded, by the Louisiana Purchase?

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  20. How are federal workers generally hired and fired? Is this process more or less fair when compared to the past? What was the spoils system?

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  21. How does Malcolm X defend the Nation of Islam from the criticism that they preach black supremacy and violence?

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  22. What was the impact of Henry Ford's automobile on the United States?

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  23. How did the Gag Rule affect U.S. Congress?

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  24. How did ww1 contribute to the african american great migration?

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  25. What were the similarities and differences between the Virginia and New Jersey Plans?

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  26. Why was Thomas Jefferson chosen to write the Declaration of Independence?

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  27. Why did sharecropping begin?

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  28. How did African American performers and musicians popularize black culture?

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  29. Why did many Americans see Manifest Destiny as the nation's right?

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  30. What was the Trail of Tears?

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  31. In 1848, who discovered gold?

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  32. Describe and explain the importance of Appomattox Court House?

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  33. When did support for Senator McCarthy start to fade?

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  34. Why was Atlanta significant to the Union and whose leadership led to its seizure by the Union? What was the effect of his march to Savannah?

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  35. What did American Indians in the West often traded in exchange for manufactured goods?

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