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  1. What was Woodrow Wilson's policy toward Mexico?

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  2. Why did President Hoover oppose direct federal relief to the unemployed?

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  3. What event led to the fall of the confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia?

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  4. Under the Articles of Confederation, how many states are needed to pass a law?

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  5. Why did the North have more capital than the South?

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  6. How did the governmentss up in the American colonies reflect Montesquieu's ideas?

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  7. Who was the German drill master under Washington?

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  8. What opponent of the New Deal believed that the program did not do enough to help poor Americans, and what program did he propose?

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  9. How did Anti-Federalists feel about a strong central government?

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  10. What role did Carrie Chapman Catt play in the late 19th century?

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  11. What groups tended to oppose women's suffrage and why?

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  12. According to the Declaration of Independence, why did the colonists want independence from England?

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  13. What are two reasons that Lincoln decides to attack the issue of slavery?

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  14. What region of the United States has the highest clustering of people in poverty?

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  15. Which amendment provides that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law?

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  16. Who extended the mission concept by opening settlement houses in poor areas of Atlanta?

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  17. According to John Locke, why do people form government?

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  18. What was the purpose of the Brady Bill passed during the presidency of William Clinton?

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  19. What government agency set up schools and helped formerly enslaved African Americans in the South?

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  20. Why was Brown v. Board of Education important to people of color?

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  21. What did the Supreme Court rule in the case Near v Minnesota?

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  22. How did the U.S. government change its response to the Great Depression after the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as president?

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  23. What battle would end the Revolutionary War?

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  24. What was America's economic situation at the end of the war in 1919?

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  25. Why did people stay in the tenements?

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  26. How did the Europeans perceive Benjamin Franklin in the eighteenth century?

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  27. How did midterm elections of 1946 have an unfavorable impact on organized labor?

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  28. What was the impact of Matthew Perry's journey to Japan in 1853?

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  29. What were the causes and effects of European arrival in the Americas?

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  30. What effects did the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" have on people in both the North and South?

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  31. What caused the U.S. Army to take over atomic research in the early 1940s?

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  32. Which industry grew most rapidly during the 1950s?

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  33. Do you think there was much opposition to slavery in the South? Why or why not?

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  34. The first Africans to be brought to British North America landed in which colony in the early 1600s?

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  35. What plan called for a two house legislature with representation based on population?

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