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  1. What was the state of the Southern economy after the Civil War?

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  2. Why was California more difficult to acquire than New Mexico?

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  3. Why is the battle of Gettysburg considered a turning point in the Civil War?

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  4. Why did Parliament keep the tax on tea even though it repealed the Townshend Acts?

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  5. Why did many members of Congress oppose President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?

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  6. What did the senators and representatives who signed the Southern Manifesto believed?

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  7. What was the goal of the U.S. policy of containment in the years following World War II?

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  8. Which political agreement in the Constitutional Convention temporarily reduced conflict between the North and the South?

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  9. What was the impact of the Great Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise on the final form of the U.S. Constitution?

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  10. How had urban flight changed both cities and suburbs?

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  11. What was the name of the Jamestown legislative assembly (lawmaking body)?

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  12. How did European allies affect the Revolutionary War?

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  13. What was Frederick Douglass' role in the abolitionist movement.?

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  14. How did the civil rights movement affect Washington's Indian tribes in 1989?

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  15. The National Origins Act did not apply to immigrants from which country?

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  16. How did the Union take New Orleans, and why was it an important victory?

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  17. The civil rights movement sought to integrate American society. What does that mean?

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  18. What aspect of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points was of most interest to colonial regions of Africa?

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  19. What were the goals of the US In the Middle East during the Cold War (1950-1990) and how did these goals affect the perception of the US among Arab nationalists?

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  20. Why was the United States motivated to launch the Marshall Plan immediately following World War II?

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  21. How was America able to produce war supplies?

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  22. Where did factory labor come from? How were workers treated?

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  23. How did manufacturing change after the Civil War? How did these changes affect city life?

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  24. Which African American enrolled at, and later graduated from, the all-white of Mississippi?

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  25. Why would G. Washington state the United States would be "friendly and impartial" in regard to foreign conflict?

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  26. What convinced many Americans that the United States needed to prepare to enter World War II?

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  27. Which amendment prohibited alcohol? Which amendment repealed its prohibition?

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  28. What were the immediate and long-term effects of the agricultural revolution that occurred in the 1700's?

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  29. How did Americans react to Prohibition?

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  30. How did the economic role of women change during the Civil War?

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  31. What method of manufacturing, introduced in the early 1800s, made mass production possible?

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  32. Where did the name Indians come from in in reference to Native Americans?

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  33. What U.S. actions led Fidel Castro to believe he was in danger of being invaded?

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  34. Where were the Five Civilized Tribes forced to move because of the Indian Removal Act?

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  35. What was one effect of Shays' Rebellion?

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