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  1. Why did delegates gather in 1787 for the Constitutional Convention?

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  2. What precipitated the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955?

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  3. Why was the Wilderness such a difficult place to do battle?

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  4. What step did the United States take during World War ll to decrease racial discrimination in America?

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  5. What was the basic purpose of the Emergency Quo Act of 1921, the Immigration Act of 1924 and the National Origlns Act of 1929?

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  6. How many immigrants, roughly, moved from Mexico to the United States during the 1920s?

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  7. What does the 4th Amendment protects people from?

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  8. How was the Three-Fifths Compromise like the Great Compromise?

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  9. Why was crossing the Delaware River and Battle of Trenton so important to the American cause during the Revolution?

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  10. What was the source of the first real impetus for African Black Nationalism?

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  11. Why did African Americans and Mexican Americans have an especially difficult time during the Great Depression?

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  12. What were the issues that divided Republicans during the early Reconstruction Era?

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  13. What was the difference between the Federalist view and the Anti-federalist view of government?

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  14. How were enslaved Africans treated after they reached the colonies in the Americas?

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  15. What are the crimes mention in the U.S. Constitution?

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  16. Which group supported giving freedmen 40 acres and a mule? Why did they support this? Did this happen? What ...

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  17. What caused the development of labor unions and to what degree did labor unions succeed in their goals during the Gilded Age?

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  18. During the effort to desegregate schools in Little Rock, why did Eisenhower place the Arkansas National Guard under Army command?

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  19. Why did England passed the Stamp Act in 1765?

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  20. What was the main idea of Article Two?

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  21. What was a weakness in the Continental Congress?

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  22. Who had become a symbol of the black power movement sweeping the nation by the early 1960s?

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  23. Why do you think Americans were willing to illegally move into the Tejas region without permission?

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  24. What was one important factor that helped pass the 26th Amendment in 1971, which lowered the voting age to 18?

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  25. How did the number of new immigrants around the turn of the twentieth century affect the number of acculturation programs in the United States?

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  26. One of the provisions of the Compromise of 1877 was that government U.S. troops would be removed from the South. What did this action lead to?

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  27. Why did President Roosevelt attempt to "pack" the Supreme Court?

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  28. How was the weather in the southern colonies and the soil?

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  29. Who wrote the first abolitionist newspaper?

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  30. How did the cotton gin lead to a rise in slavery?

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  31. What British actions in 1775 moved the colonists toward independence?

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  32. How did the federal government support employers during times of labor unrest?

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  33. How did the British effort to regain their market for manufactured goods affect America's industries?

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  34. What did General MacArthur do that caused President Truman to fire him?

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  35. Who was Marcus Garvey and what was his historical contribution?

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