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  1. What factor contributed to the creation of the Farmers' Alliance?

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  2. Why did U.S. policymakers support a non-communist South Korea?

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  3. What did Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corporation do?

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  4. Why were colonies created?

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  5. How did Southerners respond to the abolitionist movement?

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  6. What were the southern arguments for secession?

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  7. What were some of the effects of Reaganomics?

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  8. Which English colony was a haven for Catholics in North America?

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  9. What was the effect of the stock market crash on businesses, workers, and consumers during the Great Depression?

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  10. Why did Nixon engage in the SALT talks?

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  11. What were the the difficulties with government enforcement of Prohibition and the Volstead Act?

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  12. What did African Americans control first after the Civil War?

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  13. What was the controversy in the 1876 election? How did this election end Reconstruction in the South after the Civil War?

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  14. What was the main concern of the environmental movement during the Progressive Era?

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  15. Why is the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 important to lobbyists?

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  16. In what way did British leaders misunderstand the Revolutionary War?

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  17. Why were Confederate soldiers called "Rebels"?

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  18. Why was Texas so important to the Confederacy?

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  19. Why did the United States want to gain control of Cuba?

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  20. What was the meaning of "The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over" by William Graham Sumner? What was his overall purpose to readers?

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  21. In what way did the colonies offer settlers greater political rights than they would have had in England?

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  22. How did the South protest against discrimination in the 1960s?

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  23. How do you think the 19th-century reform movements in schools, prisons, and asylums might have influenced reform movements today?

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  24. Why do cash crops benefit landowners but do not help local people?

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  25. How did the scalawags change government in the South?

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  26. Most Americans agreed on what changes to the Articles of Confederation?

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  27. When and where did the first ice cream parlor open in America?

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  28. How did FDR trigger a NEW economic downturn in 1937?

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  29. Why did a group called Separatists come to America in 1600?

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  30. Which president and his advisers were found to be responsible for misleading Americans when the Pentagon Papers were released?

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  31. What were some ways that colonists protested British taxes?

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  32. Which Native American group led the protest at Wounded Knee?

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  33. What was NIxon's reaction to questions about his involvement in the Watergate Scandal?

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  34. What was a position of the "New Nixon" of 1968?

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  35. In May 1864 what did the Army of the Potomac do after losing the Battle of the Wilderness?

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