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  1. What term means to leave the union?

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  2. What were Nixon's policies toward China and the Soviet Union? Why were they so surprising at the time?

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  3. In what way did President Dwight Eisenhower disagree with Harry Truman on foreign policy?

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  4. How would one best characterize Roosevelt's positions on conservation and the environment ?

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  5. Why did Jackson veto the bill to renew the Second Bank of the United States?

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  6. What was the primary motivation behind the Non-Aligned Movement during the Cold War?

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  7. How did the United States try to prevent a Communist revolution in China?

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  8. What Cold War institution continued into the 1990s and beyond because of close ties between the government and business?

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  9. How did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 reflect Thomas Jefferson's ideas?

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  10. How did President Johnson's approach to Reconstruction differ from that of Radical Republicans?

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  11. What did African Americans seek to escape when they moved to the North in the 1920's?

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  12. What did the Harlem Renaissance allow African Americans to do that they could not do before?

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  13. George Washington was the commander and leader of which side of the American Revolution?

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  14. What European nation aided the Continental Army?

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  15. During the 1840s, many more Americans than British settled in the Oregon Country. How do you think this influenced negotiations over the territory?

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  16. What decided how slaves would counted when determining a state's population?

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  17. Is Kumbh Mela commercializing spirituality? There are billboards, posters and stalls put up by gurus and sadhus, do they serve any purpose?

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  18. What is the history and significance of Kumbh/Maha Kumbh melas among Hindus? How did it start? What is its cultural and social significance?

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  19. Why did Americans show little interest in expanding the nation's territory and increasing international influence in the years immediately following the Civil War?

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  20. Why was the Reagan administration's sale of weapons to lran damaging for Ronald Reagan's image?

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  21. Why did Nixon authorize telephone wiretaps?

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  22. What items did John White find missing at Roanoke?

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  23. How did the United States' government help facilitate the building of the first transcontinental railroad?

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  24. Government should leave business to the business people and forces on governance?

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  25. What were Maya Angelou's experiences with racism?

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  26. Who was the top Confederate general?

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  27. What do the colonists gain from the Revolutionary War?

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  28. How did Native Americans and Europeans views on land ownership differ?

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  29. What happened as a result of the so-called Intolerable Acts?

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  30. What percentage of the colonists were patriots? Tories? Indifferent?

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  31. How did the Northwest Territory get settled?

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  32. What did the No Child Left Behind Act do?

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  33. Why did so many Indians die as result of colonization and contact?

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  34. What was the significance of the use of Federal marshals to protect African-American students in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957?

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  35. What information does Roosevelt submit to the American people in "Fireside Chat #19" to help prove the Axis's intent for war?

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