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  1. What were U.S. relations with Cuba like under President Jimmy Carter?

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  2. What was Rhode Island the first colony to do in the USA?

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  3. What was the movement that drove more than 15,000 Puritans to Massachusetts?

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  4. What was the main idea/purpose/overall meaning of Henry Steele Commager's **How the Lost Cause was Lost**? In the end, how was it actually lost?

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  5. Why did Irish immigrants support the Democratic Party?

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  6. What did leaders of the Confederacy think their nation was entitled to?

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  7. Who headed the committee that wrote the Articles Confederation?

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  8. What were the first industries to develop in the North?

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  9. Why did increasing numbers of women enter the workforce in the 1920s?

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  10. Why did settlers begin to kill off the buffalo?

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  11. How did the Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans differ in their opinion of how the Constitution should be interpreted?

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  12. How did the open-range system of cattle ranching work?

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  13. How was the 20th Maine Regiment so instrumental in winning the Battle of Gettysburg?

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  14. What did almost all Native American societies have in common in the 1400s?

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  15. How did the election of 1876 lead to the end of Reconstruction?

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  16. Why did many of the delegates at the Constitutional Convention oppose the ratification of the Constitution?

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  17. What were some goals of the Workingmen's Party?

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  18. Why did the Puritans emigrate to North America in the 1600s?

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  19. What country was the scene of the bombing of the United States Marine barracks?

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  20. How did John D. Rockefeller vertically integrate his monopoly in 1882?

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  21. How were the atomic bomb attacks on Japan during World War Il an example of "total war"?

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  22. Why did King call African Americans' fighting in Vietnam an "irony"?

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  23. Why did slave owners offer a $40,000 reward for the capture of Harriet Tubman?

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  24. What first caused tensions to rise between the colonists and Britain?

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  25. What was the name of the Union strategy in which the Union wanted to blockade the Confederate coast and take control of the Mississippi River?

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  26. How did Adams's relationship with Congress affect his presidency?

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  27. Why was blockading southern ports and gaining control of the Mississippi important for the North?

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  28. What was the effect of the civil rights movement on the economic status of African Americans by 1975?

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  29. What did investors fear would happen because of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?

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  30. Why did Robert Kennedy believe it no longer made sense for the United States to seek a military victory in Vietnam?

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  31. What role did Sojourner Truth play in both the abolition and women's rights movements?

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  32. How did religion contribute to the growth of representative government in the English colonies?

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  33. How did the "rule of reason," supported by William Howard Taft, differ from Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism?

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  34. What impact did the Institute for Religious Freedom have on government?

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  35. What role did the Office of War Mobilization play during the war?

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