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  1. How did the Clayton Antitrust Act benefit labor?

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  2. What were the various classes into which colonial society was divided?

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  3. Why might Cubans have resented the Platt Amendment?

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  4. What are examples of Union demands?

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  5. How did famers' alliances change the way small farmers operated?

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  6. What similarities did the New Deal have to Progressive Era policies?

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  7. What was President Lincoln's first response to the situation at Fort Sumter?

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  8. What kind of state labor laws resulted from progressives lobbying to protect workers?

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  9. How did railroads influence the growth of western territories?

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  10. What did Silas Deane mean when he said. "United we stand, divided we fall?

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  11. How did Hamilton get Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to agree to his plan?

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  12. How did the Homestead Act created conflicts between settlers and native americans?

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  13. Why was the Battle at Normandy a turning point in World War II?

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  14. What were areas in a city called where most of the poor working class lived in crowded conditions?

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  15. What did President Obama ask dictators in the Middle East to do about the protests?

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  16. How did the views of settlement house workers differ from nativists over immigration?

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  17. Congressional Reconstruction refers to the period when?

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  18. Which state ratified the Constitution in April of 1788?

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  19. How did Anglo-Saxonism fit with the idea of Manifest Destiny?

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  20. What areas of the United States attract the largest number of musicians?

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  21. In the mid-1800s, most of America's industry was located where?

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  22. What was the major focus of the progressive group known as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?

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  23. What effect did Reaganomics have on the rich? The poor and middle class?

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  24. Which political group became a sizable majority in Congress due to the support of the New Deal coalition?

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  25. The 13th (abolished slavery), 14th (granted citizenship and equal protection under law), and 15th (right to vote) Amendments together are known as?

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  26. What roles did members of the Black Cabinet play in the Roosevelt administration?

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  27. Why did Longstreet urge Lee not to continue the Battle of Gettysburg?

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  28. What conflicts did American settlers, Native Americans, and Mexican Americans in the Mexican Cession experience?

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  29. Why were Americans so supportive of the Monroe Doctrine?

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  30. What current scandal is testing the popularity of baseball as "America's pastime"?

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  31. How did industrial technology impact cities at the turn of the twentieth century?

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  32. What was the importance of the court case Worcester v. Georgia?

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  33. How did President Bush respond to the acts of terrorism committed on September 11, 2001?

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  34. What happened in the tenements because landlords charged high rent?

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  35. Was Abraham Lincoln racist? Why or why not?

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