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  1. What was the most controversial aspect of the Social Security Act?

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  2. Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring led Congress to enact restrictions on what source of pollution?

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  3. How is the migration pattern for African- Americans different than that of whites?

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  4. Why didn't the Supreme Court give Dred Scott his freedom?

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  5. What economic and sociai factors changed the West after the Civil War?

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  6. What were the efforts by the Truman administration and Congress to stop Communist influence?

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  7. What name was given to African Americans who moved to the Great Plains?

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  8. What were the effects of the Middle Passage?

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  9. How did Americans feel about world involvement during the 1930s?

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  10. Which leader joined the Nation of Islam while in jail and then brought many African Americans into the movement?

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  11. The Sharpeville demonstration of 1960 resulted in what?

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  12. What main demand of Native American advocacy groups did the passage of the Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975 meet?

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  13. What does the term "urban sprawl" mean?

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  14. How did the mass production of cars affect the American economy?

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  15. How did Washington's policy on matters at home differ from his foreign policy?

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  16. Why did President Truman agree to help France regain control over Vietnam?

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  17. What did the Compromise of 1877 required federal troops to do?

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  18. What provision did the Compromise of 1850 include?

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  19. Who was elected president of the Second Continental Congress and was also the first to sign the Declaration of Independence?

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  20. How did the Dred Scott decision affect the election in 1860?

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  21. Was the battle of Gettysburg a victory or draw from the Northern standpoint?

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  22. How did Thomas Jefferson double the size of the United States?

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  23. By the end of Reconstruction, what means were used to disenfranchise African Americans?

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  24. Why did Andrew Jackson split from the Democratic-Republican Party?

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  25. By 1932, approximately how many Americans were unemployed?

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  26. What are ways farming changed as a result of the industrial revolution?

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  27. Who were the Copperheads?

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  28. What was the result of the battle at Shiloh?

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  29. In which year was the Nineteenth Amendment passed?

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  30. What was the United States' motive in entering the Korean conflict?

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  31. Why dld the U.S. banking system need to be reformed in the early 1900s?

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  32. How did the Homestead Act affect U.S. expansion?

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  33. How did the winter at Valley Forge help the Continental Army?

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  34. What was LBJ's plan to win the "War on Poverty"?

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  35. What was the most significant factor in preventing African Americans from advancing economically during the 1950s?

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