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  1. How did the attitudes of many Americans change after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001?

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  2. What impact did The Great Society have on America?

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  3. What idea from the Mayflower Compact influenced the Declaration of Independence?

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  4. When did Congress adopted the first in a series of laws designed to protect civil rights?

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  5. Why was the American Federation of Labor (AFL) called the "bread and butter" union?

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  6. What were some of the major criticisms of the New Deal?

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  7. What were the rights within marriage that women gained in the 1800s?

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  8. Who are some African-American performers in the Country Music Hall of Fame?

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  9. What did Sojourner Truth do that most women of the day were not allowed to do?

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  10. What did Edwin Chadwick see as a positive effect of industrialization on the working people?

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  11. What compromises were reached at the Constitutional Convention?

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  12. Why did the Puritan experiment in the New World last only a few short generations?

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  13. Along which river, besides the Mississippi, were the greatest number of French fur-trading posts located?

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  14. What was one result of the Haymarket Riot?

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  15. What conflicts arose hatween American settlers, American Indians, and Mexican Americans as more settlers moved into the West and the Southwest?

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  16. What was the role Timothy Leary played in the counterculture movement?

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  17. What event resulted in the execution of four anarchists and the decline of the Knights of Labor?

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  18. During the Industrial Revolution, who invented the first steam locomotive?

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  19. What was the first battle of the Texas Revolution?

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  20. How did the Iran-Contra scandal hurt Ronald Reagan's image?

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  21. Why do we say "United States of America" instead of "United States" ?

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  22. What role did Native Americans play in the Revolutionary War?

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  23. What was President Nixon's stance toward the Vietnam War in 1969?

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  24. How did the New Deal support labor organizations?

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  25. What act millions of acres of federal lands to the states, which were to sell them and use those funds to build agricultural and engineering colleges?

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  26. How did "Common Sense" help the Patriots?

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  27. Does the recent incidences of removing offensive statues, indicate that the United States is moving toward ...

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  28. What treaty ceded Florida to the US?

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  29. What did Harriet Beecher Stowe do that increased tensions between the North and the South?

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  30. What was the economic effect of the Great Depression on America's farmers?

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  31. Why was the Morrill Tariff passed?

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  32. Due to their desire for a theocracy what was at the center of New England life?

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  33. Which foreign policy from the early 1900s expanded on the goals of the Monroe Doctrine?

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  34. How did the South's use of raw materials change after the war?

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  35. How did the Anti-Federalists voice their objections to the Federalist Papers?

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