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  1. Which group used the legal system to challenge racial discrimination?

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  2. Why was the Great Migration such an important part of the Progressive Era?

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  3. What institution most helped African American society after the Civil War?

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  4. What event caused Congress to pass the Brady Bill?

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  5. Why were the experiences of the earliest settlers at Jamestown and at Massachusetts Bay so different?

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  6. Why did President Kennedy say that Alabama's Bull Connor had helped the Civil Rights movement as much as Lincoln?

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  7. Why were colonial boycotts effective?

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  8. What agreement did President John F. Kennedy reach with state authorities to protect freedom riders in Mississippi?

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  9. What was Benjamin Franklin's role in the Revolutionary War?

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  10. What goals did President Roosevelt set for financial markets?

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  11. How did Alaska and Hawaii become United States territories?

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  12. What were some of the problems with the kind of government set up by the Articles of Confederation?

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  13. How many slaves escaped along the underground railroad between 1810-1850?

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  14. When the War began in 1861, both sides believed that the would win quickly and with few causalities. What was the actual situation four years later?

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  15. How did the British Parliament respond to the Boston Tea Party?

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  16. The Alien and Sedition Acts showed how different which two political parties were?

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  17. What were some of challenges pioneers typically face on the Santa Fe Trail in the mid-1800s?

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  18. How did the role of women change from the Rosie the Riveter of WWII to the baby boom of the postwar years?

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  19. Why do you think African Americans were worried about a civil rights bill in 1961 and 1962?

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  20. Why do you think Lincoln urged generous terms for a Confederate surrender?

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  21. What was the role of the Office of War Information?

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  22. How did Tecumseh attempt to deal with white settlers on Native American land?

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  23. How did Johnson's Great Society legislation affect education?

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  24. How did mercantilism affect the economies of Great Britain and the American colonies?

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  25. What might explain the formation of ethnic neighbor Historical hoods in the late 1800s? What did such neighborhoods provide to new immigrants?

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  26. How come President Truman was not expected to win the 1948 election?

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  27. Why do you think Lincoln chose not to gloat over the Union victory in his speech?

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  28. Was President George Washington sympathetic the freedom cause?

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  29. Why did many Americans want to settle in the Oregon Territory?

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  30. Who commanded the Confederates at Gettysburg?

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  31. What trends in the 1700 northern colonies still affect the United States today?

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  32. Uring a housing crisis in the early 1940s, what was used by some local governments to prevent inflation?

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  33. Who was involved with Thomas Paine relating to his book common sense?

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  34. What was the goal of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)?

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  35. Why was there an American Revolution?

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