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  1. What role did Stonewall Jackson play at the Second Battle of Bull Run?

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  2. Memorial Day was initially called Decoration Day. Why?

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  3. What was the importance of the Siege of Vicksburg?

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  4. Why was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act created?

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  5. What changes occurred in Cuba after the Spanish-American War?

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  6. Why do you think Bacon's Rebellion might have been a sign of things to come in colonial America?

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  7. About what percent of today's population is Native American?

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  8. What role did J. Edgar Hoover play in the Palmer Raids?

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  9. How did the Great Society programs affect housing in the United States?

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  10. What are the two houses of the legislature for the federal government?

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  11. How did the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 impact political participation?

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  12. How did the framers of the Constitution avoid the ratification dilemma faced by the confederation government?

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  13. Why was the Department of Homeland Security formed?

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  14. How was it possible for Blanche K, Bruce and Hiram Rhodes Revels to become U.S. senators from Mississippi?

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  15. What was the primary purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

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  16. What issues did President George W. Bush face as president?

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  17. What was the effect of the influenza virus that developed in the United States in 1918?

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  18. How did the indirect system of voting for president through electors inadvertently help women gain partial suffrage in several states?

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  19. How did Ellis Island differ from Angel Island?

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  20. What type of event led to the growth of the International Ladies' Garment 'Workers' Union?

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  21. Why were the tenement apartments crowded?

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  22. How does the use of automation increase productivity?

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  23. Which compromise created a bicameral legislature?

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  24. What did Roosevelt call his progressive reforms?

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  25. What did President Johnson believed the Reconstruction Acts would do?

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  26. What did the actions of Native Americans in Pontiac's Rebellion suggest about further colonial expansion ?

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  27. What inspired Key to write "and the flag was still there"?

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  28. In the 1850s, why did many runaway slaves go to Canada?

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  29. Why did the Pilgrims have a difficult first winter in Plymouth?

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  30. Why did Samuel Adams label the violence in Boston as a massacre?

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  31. Who were the Hollywood Ten, and what was their significance in the late 1940s?

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  32. What did the Confederation Congress do to strengthen the United States?

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  33. What were the challenges the Continental Army faced?

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  34. Who did the colonists regard as the hero who struck the first blow against the French?

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  35. If a Native American lived on their allotted Land for 25 years, what would he/she have to do to get their U.S. citizenship?

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