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  1. How did John Brown effect the abolitionist cause?

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  2. What events led to the Great Depression?

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  3. In what ways were the rock 'n' roll musicians and the beat poets of the 1950s similar and different?

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  4. What domestic and foreign issues concerned voters during the 1952 presidential election?

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  5. What reformer outlined the Social Gospel in a book entitled Christianity and the Social Crisis?

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  6. What roles did women fill during the Civil War?

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  7. What kinds of animals did the American Indians hunt and eat?

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  8. If you were back in time, would you and why would you support it?

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  9. How did Washington's policy toward African American soldiers change? What was the reason for this change?

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  10. What territory did the U.S. acquire in the 1890s?

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  11. What was a result of the Hollywood Ten trial?

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  12. What was the U.S. government's Office of Indian Affairs responsible for doing?

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  13. Why was President Andrew Johnson not removed from office when he was impeached in 1867?

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  14. How was the common person impacted by the Great Depression?

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  15. What five basic freedoms are included into the first amendment?

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  16. What event helped ensure Lincoln's reelection in 1864?

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  17. During the first three decades of the twentieth century, what was the main reason many African Americans left the South?

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  18. What are the first 10 Amendments are called?

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  19. Why was the Federal Communications Commission created in 1956?

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  20. How many "Southern forts remained in Union hands" at the time of Abraham Lincoln's inauguration?

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  21. What strategy does the United States pursue to deal with the threat of the Soviet Union?

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  22. Who was Andrew Jackson's secretary of state and one of his strongest supporters?

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  23. Though the Fair Housing Äct of 1968 banned residential segregation, many U.S. residential areas still divided ...

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  24. What was thought to be the fundamental goal of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal?

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  25. After World War II what happened to the population in the cities and suburbs?

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  26. Why did the Confederate army falter and eventually lose the battle at Petersburg, Virginia?

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  27. How did the ideas of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois challenge traditional ideas of African American identity?

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  28. Who said, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country"?

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  29. What did Washington Gladden, a leader in the social gospel movement, defend?

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  30. Who was the commander of the American army during the Revolutionary War?

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  31. How did some colonists get around the Navigation Acts?

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  32. How did Irish and German immigrants tend to differ?

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  33. Before the Civil War, why did most people on both sides believe it would be a very quick war?

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  34. How do you think electricity, the telephone, and the typewriter improved the nation's business output in the late 1800s?

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  35. Why did Congress tend to hold the most control during the Gilded Era?

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