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  1. Why did Populists want the United States to move from a currency backed by gold to one backed by both gold and silver?

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  2. What was the United States' goal in the space race?

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  3. What was the Back to Africa movement?

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  4. Why were gay Americans afraid to "come out of the closet" in the 1950s and early 1960s?

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  5. What did the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 do?

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  6. In what ways has the government grown since the Great Depression?

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  7. Why was the U.S. Navy budget drastically cut after the Civil War, leaving only minimal forces?

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  8. What did African American women hope to gain from suffrage?

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  9. How did the Social Security Act of 1935 reinforce women's inequality as wage workers?

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  10. What problems in the North led to reform movements of the early 1800s?

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  11. How did geography spur industrialization in the Northeast?

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  12. How did the internment of Japanese Americans affect young Japanese women?

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  13. What were the results of the Siege of Savannah?

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  14. Why did some congressmen oppose admitting women to the military?

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  15. What did Union General George Meade do that enabled his forces to win at Gettysburg on the third day of battle?

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  16. How wiykd you describe Reagan's foreign policies toward the Cold War?

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  17. What caused the Cold War to re-escalate following the SALT I Treaty?

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  18. What was a cause of the limited diversity in the suburbs?

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  19. How did the system of sharecropping affect landowners and laborers in the South?

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  20. Why did A. Philip Randolph plan a march on Washington in 1941?

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  21. Under the mandate system, did colonies receive independence for five years?

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  22. What was the general response to integration in the Deep South?

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  23. When Americans moved to the Sunbelt, where did they move from?

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  24. Which group opposed the spread of slavery during the 1860 presidential election?

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  25. Where is the site of a 1970 tragedy in which four students were killed by national guard troops?

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  26. Who succeeded Abraham Lincoln in office?

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  27. Over what issue did Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas disagree during their debates?

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  28. How would you describe public opinion in America about overseas expansion between 1893-1898?

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  29. How did the transcontinental railroad affect U.S. trade?

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  30. How did Wilson arrive at the decision that women deserved the right to vote?

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  31. How has Booker T. Washington thrown light on dignity of labour and value education in the novel "Up from Slavery"?

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  32. What was the purpose of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?

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  33. What were some major changes brought about by Henry Ford's Model T automobile?

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  34. Where in Virginia was John Brown captured while attacking a federal fort?

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  35. What did the Fourth of July represent to Frederick Douglass?

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