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  1. What did almost all Native American societies have in common in the 1400s?

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  2. How did the election of 1876 lead to the end of Reconstruction?

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  3. Why did many of the delegates at the Constitutional Convention oppose the ratification of the Constitution?

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  4. What were some goals of the Workingmen's Party?

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  5. Why did the Puritans emigrate to North America in the 1600s?

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  6. What country was the scene of the bombing of the United States Marine barracks?

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  7. How did John D. Rockefeller vertically integrate his monopoly in 1882?

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  8. How were the atomic bomb attacks on Japan during World War Il an example of "total war"?

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  9. Why did King call African Americans' fighting in Vietnam an "irony"?

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  10. Why did slave owners offer a $40,000 reward for the capture of Harriet Tubman?

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  11. Why were farmers the first to suffer economic hard times?

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  12. What was the "Mississippi Scheme"?

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  13. What first caused tensions to rise between the colonists and Britain?

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  14. What was the name of the Union strategy in which the Union wanted to blockade the Confederate coast and take control of the Mississippi River?

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  15. How did Adams's relationship with Congress affect his presidency?

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  16. Why was blockading southern ports and gaining control of the Mississippi important for the North?

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  17. What lead to the downfall of Joseph McCarthy?

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  18. What was the effect of the civil rights movement on the economic status of African Americans by 1975?

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  19. What did investors fear would happen because of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?

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  20. Why did Robert Kennedy believe it no longer made sense for the United States to seek a military victory in Vietnam?

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  21. How did the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo affect Mexico?

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  22. Who was the first president inaugurated in Washington, D.C.?

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  23. What was Tecumseh's goal?

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  24. What role did Sojourner Truth play in both the abolition and women's rights movements?

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  25. How did religion contribute to the growth of representative government in the English colonies?

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  26. How did the "rule of reason," supported by William Howard Taft, differ from Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism?

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  27. What impact did the Institute for Religious Freedom have on government?

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  28. What role did the Office of War Mobilization play during the war?

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  29. What was the state of the Southern economy after the Civil War?

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  30. Why was California more difficult to acquire than New Mexico?

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  31. Why is the battle of Gettysburg considered a turning point in the Civil War?

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  32. Why did Parliament keep the tax on tea even though it repealed the Townshend Acts?

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  33. Why did many members of Congress oppose President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?

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  34. What did the senators and representatives who signed the Southern Manifesto believed?

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  35. What was the goal of the U.S. policy of containment in the years following World War II?

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