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  1. What was the purpose of the Treaty of Fort Laramie?

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  2. What Cold War institution continued into the 1990s and beyond because of close ties between the government and business?

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  3. How did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 reflect Thomas Jefferson's ideas?

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  4. What was Roe vs. Wade?

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  5. Who is Phyllis Schlafly? What was the New Right?

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  6. How did President Johnson's approach to Reconstruction differ from that of Radical Republicans?

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  7. What did African Americans seek to escape when they moved to the North in the 1920's?

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  8. How did the War of 1812 affect the industrial development of the United States?

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  9. How did the Supreme Court rulings in 1883 work against the Civil Rights Act of 1875?

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  10. What did the Harlem Renaissance allow African Americans to do that they could not do before?

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  11. George Washington was the commander and leader of which side of the American Revolution?

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  12. What European nation aided the Continental Army?

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  13. What were the main target of both the Palmer Raids (1919-1920) and the McCarthy Hearing of 1950s?

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  14. Where did the Continental Army spend the winter of 1777?

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  15. During the 1840s, many more Americans than British settled in the Oregon Country. How do you think this influenced negotiations over the territory?

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  16. What decided how slaves would counted when determining a state's population?

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  17. How far did the Arab Empire spread under the Umayyads?

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  18. Is Kumbh Mela commercializing spirituality? There are billboards, posters and stalls put up by gurus and sadhus, do they serve any purpose?

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  19. What is the history and significance of Kumbh/Maha Kumbh melas among Hindus? How did it start? What is its cultural and social significance?

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  20. Why did Americans show little interest in expanding the nation's territory and increasing international influence in the years immediately following the Civil War?

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  21. Why was the Reagan administration's sale of weapons to lran damaging for Ronald Reagan's image?

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  22. Why did Nixon authorize telephone wiretaps?

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  23. What items did John White find missing at Roanoke?

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  24. What empowered black leaders in the United States to organize the Double V campaign after World War II began?

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  25. How did the United States' government help facilitate the building of the first transcontinental railroad?

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  26. Government should leave business to the business people and forces on governance?

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  27. What were Maya Angelou's experiences with racism?

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  28. Who was the top Confederate general?

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  29. What do the colonists gain from the Revolutionary War?

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  30. How did Native Americans and Europeans views on land ownership differ?

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  31. What happened as a result of the so-called Intolerable Acts?

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  32. What percentage of the colonists were patriots? Tories? Indifferent?

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  33. How did the Hawley Smoot Tariff damage the U.S. economy?

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  34. What was the goal of the No Child Left Behind Act?

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  35. How did privateers help the American war effort?

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