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  1. Who succeeded Abraham Lincoln in office?

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  2. Over what issue did Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas disagree during their debates?

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  3. How would you describe public opinion in America about overseas expansion between 1893-1898?

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  4. How did the transcontinental railroad affect U.S. trade?

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  5. How did Wilson arrive at the decision that women deserved the right to vote?

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  6. How has Booker T. Washington thrown light on dignity of labour and value education in the novel "Up from Slavery"?

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  7. What was the purpose of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?

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  8. What were some major changes brought about by Henry Ford's Model T automobile?

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  9. Where in Virginia was John Brown captured while attacking a federal fort?

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  10. What did the Fourth of July represent to Frederick Douglass?

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  11. Which Congressmen was responsible for attacking a Senator with his cane in 1856?

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  12. What did the GI Bill of Rights guarantee?

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  13. What failed U.S. invasion prompted the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962?

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  14. Why did the wars and revolutions in China and eastern Europe lead to increased immigration to the United States?

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  15. What was the focus of the Freedom Summer?

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  16. How were slaves treated in the Constitution?

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  17. Why did Richard Nixon want to improve relations with China?

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  18. What types of injustices did Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, and Native Americans experience?

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  19. What were the immediate consequences of the stock market crash in 1929?

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  20. How did President George H. W. Bush help Bill Clinton win the presidency in 1992?

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  21. Why did the US fight Iraq a 2nd time?

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  22. How did the education of Alaska Natives during Alaskan's territorial year reflect earlier historical attitudes toward Native Americans in the lower 48?

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  23. What happened to Washington's army after Trenton?

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  24. How did the expansion of foreign trade affect U.S. industry?

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  25. Whose 8,000-word telegram defined the U.S. policy of containment?

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  26. When was the Constitution ratified, or approved?

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  27. What effect did mass production have on society?

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  28. What role did John C. Frémont play in establishing an American presence in California?

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  29. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book about the evils of slavery?

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  30. What happened within a year of United States Navy Commodore Matthew Perry's arrival in Tokyo Bay in 1853?

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  31. What has the digitization of books done for out-of-print books?

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  32. In its 1972 Furman v. Georgia ruling, why did the Supreme Court strike down all state laws allowing the death penalty?

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  33. How did President Richard Nixon avoid being impeached?

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  34. How did the Northwest Ordinance provide for the country's expansion?

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  35. Who negotiated to gain Alaska as a United States territory?

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