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  1. What were the last two states to join the Union?

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  2. Whom did Thomas Jefferson defeat in the 1800 presidential election?

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  3. What happened to Roosevelt's "court-packing" plan?

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  4. In what year was the Albany Plan for Union proposed?

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  5. Would Socratic be a good place to ask a question about US law?

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  6. Why did Franklin think it was surprising when the Constitution was as good as it was?

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  7. Why did more job opportunities become available to African Americans in 1915?

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  8. Why have troops stayed in Afghanistan?

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  9. The Anti-federalists demanded a series of amendments to the Constitution to protect individual liberties. They were adopted in 1791 and are known as what?

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  10. When the international slave trade ended, how did the slave trade continue?

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  11. What did the Supreme Court order U.S. schools to do in 1954?

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  12. What was the significance of the Confederate surrender at Vicksburg?

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  13. How did American immigration policy change at the end of the 19th century into the 20th century?

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  14. Why did settlers need to be able to use the Mississippi River?

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  15. Why did Cassius Clay change his name to Muhammad Ali?

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  16. How do you describe the relationship between colonists and American Indians in the early days of the Georgia colony?

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  17. How did General U. S. Grant become famous during the winter of 1861-1862?

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  18. Why were the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention kept a secret?

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  19. What was the primary reason for holding the Constitutional Convention of 1787?

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  20. Why did John Wilkes Booth assassinate Abraham Lincoln?

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  21. How did the reception of Vietnam veterans by the American public differ from that of World War I and II veterans?

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  22. If Roosevelt's judicial reform had been passed, how would new judges have been appointed?

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  23. When was the law that created the Social Security system enacted?

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  24. Why did union membership rise in the 1930s?

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  25. What was the main debate in setting up colleges and universities for African Americans?

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  26. Why might black musicians have been commercially less successful than white musicians in the 1950s?

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  27. What political party was FDR?

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  28. How did Terence V. Powderly change the Knights of Labor?

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  29. What happened to the 1916 Keating-Owen Act?

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  30. What effect did the Soviet Union's sending a man into space in 1961 have on President Kennedy?

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  31. How did the United States respond to communist threats in Greece and Turkey?

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  32. Why did Presidents want to expand presidential power?

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  33. For what purpose did Congress begin granting federal land in 1850?

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  34. What is the greatest challenge facing the United States?

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  35. Was Columbus' treatment of the people of Santo Domingo (native and Spanish) horrible or necessary?

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