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  1. What did the Proclamation of 1763 called for?

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  2. Who was the General in command of American forces during World War 1?

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  3. Why did President Truman ask Congress to give financial aid to Greece and Turkey?

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  4. What was the first colonial industry in America?

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  5. Why did Du Bois believe that black people should be taught history, literature, and philosophy?

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  6. Theodore Roosevelt had the Square Deal, Woodrow Wilson had the New Freedoms, and Franklin Roosevelt had the New Deal as their plans for the future of the United States. What did John F. Kennedy have?

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  7. How would you explain the results of the growing popularity of the automobile in the U.S. during the 1920s?

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  8. What was the purpose of issuing the Emancipation Proclamation when the U.S. government was not able to enforce it?

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  9. How did voting rights expand after the Revolutionary War?

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  10. What is the difference between the Connecticut Compromise and the 3/5 Compromise?

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  11. What type of currency was not used in the United States during its early years?

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  12. How was the treaty of Paris important to the American Revolutionary?

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  13. When he runs away from Boston, to whom is Franklin apprenticed?

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  14. Who was the Supreme Court Chief Justice in the Dred Scott decision?

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  15. Washington's Farewell Address excerpt clarification?

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  16. Which states chose to take part in the Constitutional Convention?

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  17. What could happen to people who refused to answer the questions of the House Un-American Activities Committee?

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  18. How did South Carolina respond after the election of Abraham Lincoln as president?

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  19. What did the indentured servants agree to do?

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  20. Who wrote the majority of the essays in The Federalist?

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  21. What led to the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani?

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  22. How did American colonists view the Revolutionary war?

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  23. Which legislation protects and compensates railroad workers who are injured on the job?

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  24. Besides those who paid their own way to the colonies, what are other circumstances in which an individual might find his way to the Americas?

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  25. How did Americans view slavery in Antebellum America?

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  26. How was the Continental Army able to drive British forces out of Boston?

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  27. Who was an engineer who lobbied Congress to pass the Transcontinental Railroad Act but died before the railroad was finished?

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  28. Why did companies want to crush labor unions?

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  29. Where were many indentured servants from?

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  30. Why was it difficult for American gun makers to produce muskets quickly enough to satisfy the government's demand?

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  31. What political party emerged from the struggling factions of the Democratic-Republicans?

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  32. How did the Freedom Rides differ from the Freedom Summer?

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  33. What effect did interstate highways have on suburban growth?

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  34. What was the War on Poverty?

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  35. What did the HUAC hearings and the McCarran-Walter Act show about American attitudes?

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