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  1. What is the word for a company that controls an entire industry?

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  2. How did manifest destiny contribute to the annexation of the texas and the creation of oregon?

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  3. How did President Carter worked to ease tensions with China ?

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  4. What economic incentives were given to draw settlers to the West?

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  5. What is the Transcontinental Railroad?

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  6. Before the Civil War, who believed that banks should be decentralized and that the states should establish and regulate all banks within their boundaries?

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  7. The Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988 added which protected class to the Fair Housing Act?

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  8. Between progressive, classical, and new deal liberalism, which would you say was most effective in responding to changes in the US in the late 19th and early 20th century?

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  9. What effect did the revolutions in latin america have on u.s. foreign policy?

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  10. Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?

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  11. How was James Pinckney Henderson able to get Great Britain to sign a trade agreement with the Republic of Texas?

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  12. What did the Iran hostage crisis do to American opinion?

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  13. What was the Whiskey Ring scandal?

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  14. How did Filipinos react at the end of the Spanish-American War?

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  15. What do you think the Sacco and Vanzetti case shows about America in the 1920s?

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  16. Who said "Give me liberty or give me death!"?

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  17. What was the “St. Louis Affair"?

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  18. Which statement about the differences between the House of Representatives and the senate is true?

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  19. Why did elites like John Adams and urban workers both support the revolution?

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  20. Why did the Apache nomads of the Great Plains flee to New Mexico where they raided Spanish settlements?

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  21. How does America's pre-World War II isolationism relate to a discussion of the Marshall Plan, the Berlin airlift, and NATO?

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  22. What were Comwallis's mistakes in battle strategy?

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  23. Why did Martin Luther King believe the Vietnam War was morally wrong?

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  24. How did wars in China and eastern Europe lead to increased immigration to the United States?

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  25. What famous event in American history took place mostly in the Southeast region beginning in 1861?

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  26. What did America do when negations stalled over the planned canal through Central America?

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  27. Why did the actions of Arkansas governor Orval Faubus regarding school integration gain national attention?

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  28. Why did President Roosevelt want support for the Great White Fleet?

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  29. How do you see Locke's ideas represented in Jefferson's writing? What are some similarities between the pieces of writing?

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  30. How did manifest destiny help shape the U.S. government's policies of land acquisition?

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  31. What form of discrimination most directly affected Mexican Americans?

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  32. Why was the United Stayes willing to accept only a limited number of of Jewish refugees?

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  33. After the establishment of the Jamestown colony in 1607, the British established other colonies in the Southeast primarily for which purpose?

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  34. What did Loyalists believe about Patriots?

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  35. Why was the Supreme Court's decision in Wesberry v. Sanders important?

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