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  1. Why did the Dawes act convert native Americans to white culture?

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  2. What are three truths that are "self-evident"?

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  3. How do you compare the impact of nativism to the impact of slavery on the American political system from 1848-1860?

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  4. Do you think the louisiana purchase promoted the development of democracy?

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  5. Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor chronicled the injustices inflicted upon which group of people?

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  6. What did Roosevelt do to allow the U.S. to build a canal in Panama?

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  7. Why did the Great Depressi_on make some people want a change in government?

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  8. Who led a military coup against the Mexican government in 1834?

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  9. What action did the Native Americans take after the war?

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  10. U.S. bank failures reached around 600 per year in the early 1930s because?

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  11. What were said to be the provisions of the Compromise of 1877?

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  12. How did the Bessemer process make suspension bridges possible?

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  13. Why did Lord North decided to repeal the Townshend Acts in 1770?

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  14. Who was Samuel Tilden?

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  15. Why was Eleanor Roosevelt important?

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  16. How did the influx of new immigrants from Germany and Ireland affect circumstances in the American workplace?

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  17. How does the declaration of independance's ratfication impact the troops during the revolutionary war?

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  18. Compare the different ways land was acquired by the u.s in the period of Manifest Destiny from 1844-1853?

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  19. What was the purpose of the Chicano movement?

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  20. What new American subculture helped define the 1950s?

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  21. Was Shay's Rebellion harmful or beneficial to the United States? Why?

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  22. 'Although McCarthy's methods were questionable, Americans were right to be scared in the 1950s' How far do you agree with this statement?

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  23. How does Jefferson explain the reason for a formal declaration of independence? Why do you think it was necessary for Jefferson to state the “causes which impel them to the separation"?

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  24. What was the status of Area 2 immediately prior to statehood? Independent Republic Spanish colony United States territory Part of Mexico

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  25. When Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, he believed what?

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  26. In the early 1800s, what were the main goals of nationalists?

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  27. Why might we be more willing today to carry a deficit than in Hamiltons time?

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  28. During the 1920s, women's fashion changed to shorter hemlines and less constrictive silhouettes. Which movement brought about this change?

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  29. Did the Union victory divide the Confederacy along the Mississippi River in the bombardment of Fort Sumter?

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  30. How did Samuel Morse's best-known innovation contribute to U.S. growth and development?

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  31. What was the Underground Railroad?

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  32. How did the Peggy Eaton affair affect politics in Washington, DC?

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  33. Monopolies that developed in the late 1800s from business owners like Andrew Carnegie in steel and John D. Rockefeller in oil allowed them to?

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  34. Monopolies that developed in the late 1800s from business owners like Andrew Carnegie in steel and John D. Rockefeller in oil allowed them to?

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  35. What prompted the U.S. formally to state its Open Door policy in 1899 and 1900?

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