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  1. What did W.E.B. DuBois organize in Fort Erie, Canada, in 1905?

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  2. What happened to the Populist Party following Bryan's defeat in 1896?

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  3. What were the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut and who wrote them?

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  4. How did New Deal policies help Franklin D. Roosevelt increase the power of the presidency over the federal government?

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  5. What can you infer about Reagan's relationship with Congress from the lran-Contra Affair?

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  6. Until about 1660, what was Carolina's most valuable commodity?

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  7. What industry is Carnegie associated with?

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  8. How did the launch of Sputnik affect the policies of President Eisenhower?

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  9. What did the Bush administration do to coordinate domestic security matters among a number of federal, state, and local agencies?

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  10. What event was known as the "shot heard around the world?"

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  11. Why was the Fugitive Slave Act so important to southern slave holders?

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  12. What group of people were the Great Society programs benefiting?

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  13. What challenges did women encounter in the workplace at the end of the twentieth century?

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  14. What types of discrimination are prohibited by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

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  15. What was the result of the XYZ Affair?

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  16. Why did African Americans migrate to Newark at the beginning the 20th century?

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  17. What was the outcome of McClellan's offensive?

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  18. Jefferson tried to speak for all colonists in the Declaration of Independence. Do you think he succeeded in doing this?

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  19. What new opportunities were available to Africa American after Civil War?

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  20. What was President Eisenhower's "dynamic conservatism" approach?

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  21. What was the impact of the steam engine on the production of British goods?

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  22. According to "How the Other Half Lives," where did residents of buildings in the slums get their water?

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  23. What did President Hoover expand more than any previous president?

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  24. What allowed the United States to claim American Samoa?

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  25. Why did the Spanish set up the encomienda system and what were the results of that system?

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  26. After the Kansas-Nebraska Act, what party did antislavery Democrats form?

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  27. What did the Federal Reserve Act, signed into law in 1913 by President Wilson, accomplish?

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  28. What impact did the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom have on the U.S. government?

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  29. Why did the southern cotton industry have a hard time recovering after the Civil War?

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  30. What factor led to the formation of the Ku Klux Klan and similar groups?

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  31. Why was John Deans testimony in the Watergate investigation significant?

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  32. When Senator Joseph McCarthy decided to run for a second term, what issue became the focus of his reelection campaign?

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  33. Which party in the 1860 election hopes to heal the political split between the north and the south?

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  34. What was the most controversial aspect of the Social Security Act?

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  35. Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring led Congress to enact restrictions on what source of pollution?

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