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  1. Which country did Roosevelt want to impress when he sent the Great White Fleet around the world in the early 1900s?

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  2. What former slave asked in a speech, "What to the American slave is your 4 of July?"

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  3. What invention had the biggest impact on South Carolina during the Antebellum period?

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  4. Why did Americans initially go to Hawaii and what happened there in 1887?

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  5. What fundamental gain did labor make in the 1930s?

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  6. What was the goal of the National Origins Act of 1924?

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  7. What was the Great White Fleet, and what did it do?

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  8. What motivated the Bonus Army to march on Washington, D.C. in 1932?

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  9. When, where and who was at the Constitutional Convention?

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  10. What did Herbert Hoover initially believe about the federal government's role in the Great Depression?

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  11. What was the slave trade compromise?

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  12. What was Thomas Edison's first job? How old was he when began working?

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  13. What was a key reason for the post-war cash crunch in America?

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  14. What big concerns did critics of business have regarding trusts?

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  15. How were the poor described in socialist Michael Harrington's book "The Other America"?

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  16. By the 1850s, what did the North feel about slavery?

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  17. How did England try to control trade with its American colonies?

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  18. How did the role of agriculture worsen the bank failures of the Great Depression?

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  19. Which of the Populist Party's policies undermined its attempts to appeal to urban Workers?

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  20. Why do you think European nations supported the colonists rather than Great Britain?

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  21. How did Andrew Carnegie express his belief in the Gospel of Wealth?

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  22. Where was Theodore Roosevelt's famous victory in the Spanish-American?

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  23. What was a goal of President Kennedy's Peace Corps?

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  24. Why did the Pilgrims leave Europe?

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  25. What type of foreign policy did the Eisenhower administration support, in which all forms of weaponry, no matter how destructive, could and should be used if needed?

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  26. What did Alfred Kinsey write about during the 1950s?

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  27. Why did South Carolina secede from the Union?

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  28. What role did earthworks play in Mandan society?

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  29. How can the Constitution be amended?

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  30. What government action first allowed American businessmen to come to China in large numbers?

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  31. Why did the Supreme Court free the slaves who led an insurrection on the Spanish slave ship the Amistad?

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  32. According to the Constitution when do The People have the right to change the government?

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  33. Why did the U.S. government institute rationing as an economic policy?

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  34. How did George Washington's ideas about how the president's house should look reflect his ideas about the presidency?

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  35. How did the United States help the Allies before getting into World War ll?

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