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  1. How did the Union army gain control of the Mississippi River?

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  2. During World War I, how did the lives of African Americans in the military reflect the lives of African Americans at home?

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  3. In the early 1800s, what were the main goals of conservatives?

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  4. In the 1830s, where was the cotton manufacturing center of the world?

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  5. Who was the engineer who asked Congress to pass the Transcontinental Railroad Act but died before the railroad was finished?

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  6. How did the Columbian Exchange—the mutual transfer of material goods, commodities, animals, and diseases...

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  7. How did the identities of colonizing and indigenous American societies change as a result of contact in the Americas?

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  8. Who did Congress think should be in charge of Reconstruction?

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  9. How did European attempts to dominate the Americas shape relations between Native Americans, Europeans...

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  10. What helped the Cherokee survive on the Trail of Tears?

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  11. How did Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring contribute to the environmental movement?

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  12. What were the goals of President Polk? How did he achieve his goals?

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  13. What did Margaret Fuller believe?

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  14. Why were the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments passed?

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  15. What were the benefits of the transcontinental railroad?

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  16. What was the Lend-Lease Act?

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  17. Why did members of the women's rights movement believe that suffrage was the key to improving the position of women in society?

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  18. Why were colonists outraged by the taxes and who did they believe had the right to levy taxes?

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  19. What happened as agriculture became entrenched in the South?

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  20. What did Benedict Arnold offer to the British General Clinton in New York in exchange for money in 1779?

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  21. Why did some Americans want the United States to help Cuban revolutionaries fight against Spain in the late 1890s?

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  22. What purpose did politicians have in the industrial revolution in the US?

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  23. What two treaties helped settle American land claims east of the Mississippi River?

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  24. When Washington became commander-in-chief, how much was he paid?

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  25. Why have so many Kansas farmers had to turn to increasing irrigation in the past two years?

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  26. How did the Supreme Court rule in cases affecting the rights of Chinese immigrants?

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  27. How did Alexander Hamilton plan to handle the national debt?

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  28. What legislation would help African Americans in the Roaring Twenties?

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  29. When the First Continental Congress met, which one of the original thirteen colonies was not represented?

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  30. Why did the United States sign a treaty with Spain?

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  31. What was the impact of the Philippine insurrection on the United States?

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  32. How did the North win the battle of shiloh?

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  33. If you lived in Philadelphia in the late 1780s, what is the fewest number of miles you would have to travel to enter an area that opposed ratifying the Constitution?

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  34. What was the connection between President Wilson's Fourteen Points and Germany's surrender?

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  35. How did President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction treat southern states?

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