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  1. Why was the Winter of 1609 called the "Starving Time?

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  2. Why did the colonists choose to throw British tea in Boston Harbor?

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  3. What were some effects of the Erie Canal?

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  4. What are the inventions created from 1870 until 1910?

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  5. What attitudes did most Progressives hold about minorities and immigrant groups?

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  6. In order to receive 160 acres free of charge through the Homestead Act, what did you have to do in order to keep it?

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  7. What groups of people made up the Progressive movement?

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  8. Who ran and won in the 1908 presidential election?

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  9. Why was Jackson especially eager to win the election of 1828?

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  10. How did the Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg change the course of the Civil War?

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  11. Which did the British do during the buildup to the American Revolution?

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  12. Why would Great Britain care about the Confederacy?

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  13. Why doesn't the government get to punish anyone it suspects of a crime in any way it wants? Why does it generally have to prove guilt?

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  14. What was the decisive factor in the North's success in the final years of the war?

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  15. What resulted from President John F. Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women?

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  16. What did Hull House expose?

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  17. I was born to freed slaves during the Civil War. I became a schoolteacher and worked for economic success and...

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  18. Which city in Georgia was set aflame by Sherman's army?

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  19. Why was the Delaware Valley called "the best poor man's country"?

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  20. What did the Battle of Shiloh show about the future course of the Civil War?

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  21. What kind of films and radio programs became popular during the Great Depression?

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  22. How did Great Britain react to the proclamation of American neutrality in in 1793?

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  23. What argument used to justify slavery appealed to people's religious beliefs?

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  24. Why were southerners outraged about the outcome of the election of 1860?

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  25. The ability of the east coast of the United States to communicate with the west coast was FIRST made possible by what?

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  26. How did Hoover's core beliefs contrast with what many Americans wanted?

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  27. What happened to the United States in the long- and short-term due to FDR's actions to combat the Great Depression?

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  28. How did religious leaders contribute to the growth of representative governments in the 13 colonies?

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  29. How did Breckinridge's stance on the expansion of slavery in the territories differ from Lincoln's?

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  30. Why were the Coercive Acts passed?

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  31. What were the biggest crops in the Southern Colonies?

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  32. Which difficulty led to development of the Annapolis Convention?

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  33. What act gave British officials the power to combat smuggling by issuing writs of assistance during colonial times?

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  34. Where did many Puritans settled within which of the British colonies in North America?

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  35. Who had political power in the colony? Did the Puritans believe in the separation of church and state?

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