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  1. During his second term, what problem did George W. Bush attempt to address by calling for the privatization of Social Security?

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  2. Why did the Industrial Revolution occur in the U.S.?

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  3. What did the Eastern Woodland tribes use to make clothing?

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  4. What are some reasons why immigrants immigrate to the U.S?

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  5. What did Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs do to help freedmen?

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  6. How did television affect Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s?

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  7. How were unemployment and homelessness connected to laughter and entertainment in the 1930s?

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  8. What did passage of the Immigration Act of 1965 accomplish?

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  9. Why was the mayflower compact created?

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  10. What did the Proclamation of 1763 called for?

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  11. Who was the General in command of American forces during World War 1?

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  12. Why did President Truman ask Congress to give financial aid to Greece and Turkey?

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  13. What was the first colonial industry in America?

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  14. Who was the Supreme Court Chief Justice in the Dred Scott decision?

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  15. Who wrote the majority of the essays in The Federalist?

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  16. What led to the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani?

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  17. How did Americans view slavery in Antebellum America?

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  18. Who was an engineer who lobbied Congress to pass the Transcontinental Railroad Act but died before the railroad was finished?

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  19. What did hippies do to show their disapproval of mainstream values?

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  20. How did automation change the nature of work and affect unions?

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  21. What changes occurred in Cuba after the Spanish-American War?

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  22. What type of event led to the growth of the International Ladies' Garment 'Workers' Union?

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

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  24. How did Prohibition affect popular culture and American society?

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  25. How did newspapers contribute to America's declaration of war against Spanish in 1898?

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  26. What movement attempted to prohibit alcohol consumption?

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  27. What was true about the Whig, Free-Soil, and Know-Nothing parties?

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  28. What was the Indians' and the Pilgrims' pact ?

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  29. What part of the Declaration of Independence was deleted before it was published? Why was it deleted?

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  30. How did the Spanish-American War help create support for building the Panama Canal?

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  31. What were the goals of the Nation of Islam in the 1960s?

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  32. What was Walter Rauschenbusch's ideas about Social Gospel and the Progressive Movement?

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  33. Why were the American colonies able to defeat England in The Revolutionary War?

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  34. What was the impact of Gifford Pinchot's ideas about the environment?

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  35. What did farmers and homeowners have in common during the Great Depression?

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