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  1. Why did suffragists want a constitutional amendment?

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  2. Why did the border states- Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri- where slavery was legal, not join other southern states in seceding in the months before Abraham Lincoln took office?

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  3. Why did U.S. officials support an Indian removal policy?

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  4. How did northern voters respond to the passage of the Kansas Nebraska Act?

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  5. Why were many colonists of the Up Country Loyalists?

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  6. If you think that a lower court has made an error, what can you do?

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  7. How did the Nixon White House use wiretaps?

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  8. How did Abraham Lincoln think the Annexation of Texas would affect slavery in Texas?

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  9. What was the name for African Americans who moved West to escape prejudice in the South?

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  10. Why did the Kansas-Nebraska Act anger many members of the Free-Soil Party?

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  11. What is the greatest power that the Congress has to check the president?

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  12. How were class tensions affected by the Industrial Revolution?

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  13. How did President George H W Bush's appointment of a "drug czar" change drug crime in the United States?

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  14. What were arguments used by South Carolina in support of the idea that secession was fair?

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  15. How did the United States government began acquiring overseas territories in 1898?

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  16. How did Northerners respond to the Emancipation Proclamation?

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  17. How did the acquisition of Guam in the Spanish-American War affect US trade?

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  18. How did the Supreme Court respond to the Civil Rights Act of 1875?

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  19. Slaves were originally brought to British North America for the purpose of?

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  20. What role did Catharine Beecher believe women should play in reform movements?

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  21. What were the circumstances surrounding the Dred Scott case?

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  22. Why might the anti-Federalists think the Constitution would reduce the power of the states?

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  23. What Inspired Americans to have a bi-carmel (two house) legislative branch?

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  24. Which New Deal legislation allowed the President to regulate business in the U.S. in order to raise price?

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  25. What might have reduced the effects of the Dust Bowl?

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  26. What are the pros and cons of the 14th amendment?

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  27. What is the main concept of the Fifth Amendment?

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  28. How did Joseph McCarthy gained public attention?

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  29. What did Jim Crow laws mandate?

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  30. What did Hiram Rhodes Revels argue for in the Senate?

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  31. How many governments have ruled over Texas through its history?

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  32. How was the Rush-Bagot Agreement important in keeping peaceful relations between the United States and Great Britain?

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  33. What were tenement apartments at the turn of the turn of the twentieth century?

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  34. Why did FDR get elected in 1932?

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  35. How did Roosevelt solve the 1902 coal strike?

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