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  1. In early 17th century Massachusetts, who was granted freeman status?

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  2. What invention or innovation helped to make cities, factories, and railroads spring up in the North?

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  3. In 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded, killing the entire crew. What was the impact of this tragedy?

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  4. Who were the main beneficiaries of the idea of Manifest Destiny?

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  5. What established the procedure by which the United States would expand westward across North America by ...

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  6. What features of colonial politics contributed to the development of popular democracy, and what kept political life from being more truly democratic?

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  7. According to his Four Freedoms speech, what does Roosevelt suggest will allow world to have "freedom from tear"?

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  8. How did poor farmers feel about incoming American settlers?

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  9. Why did the United States insist on the Platt Amendment?

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  10. Who was Hamilton primary political rival while serving in Washington's cabinet?

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  11. What effect did the Emancipation Proclamation have on the North?

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  12. What are some of the differences between Puritans and Pilgrims?

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  13. What governing body made laws that colonists had to abide by (pre-revolution)?

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  14. What was the main provision of the Wade-Davis Bill of 1864 that led Lincoln to "pocket veto"?

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  15. What was the importance of the April 6, 1862 battle of Shiloh?

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  16. What invention lead to a boom to the recording business in the 1920s?

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  17. What was the importance of the Battle of the Thames?

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  18. What does "We the People," emphasize?

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  19. Why did many state leaders like the lack of centralized authority in the confederation government in the late 1770s?

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  20. What U.S. supreme court cases deal with the 14th Amendment?

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  21. What did Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs do to help freedmen?

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  22. Why is the Spanish American War a pivotal moment in U.S. history?

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  23. What was the major issue that led to the forming of the Republican Party and the e|ection of Abraham Lincoln?

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  24. What was the First Battle of Bull Run's importance in the Civil War?

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  25. How did television affect Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s?

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  26. What were the reasons for the clashes between the U.S. government and the Sioux?

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  27. How were unemployment and homelessness connected to laughter and entertainment in the 1930s?

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  28. What were the conflicts between the New Jersey colonists and the Native Americans?

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  29. What was the outcome of the French and Indian War?

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  30. What happened to the British ships with tea in all the colonial ports except Boston?

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  31. What did the Populist Party believe in? And what did the Populist Party NOT support?

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  32. What did passage of the Immigration Act of 1965 accomplish?

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  33. How was the Puritans' colonial experience different from that of Jamestown settlers?

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  34. Why was the mayflower compact created?

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  35. Why did southern whites feel threatened by the Missouri Compromise?

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