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  1. How did the Boston Massacre stir up rebellion in Massachusetts?

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  2. How would you summarize the key historical events in the struggle of African Americans to secure voting rights?

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  3. How did the Supreme Court justify the restrictions of the Sedition Act?

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  4. Who were César Chavez and Dolores Huerta?

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  5. How did the outcomes of the elections of 1854 and 1856 affect the Republican Party?

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  6. What did George Washington do at the 1st Continental Congress?

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  7. What was the chief cash crop of the Chesapeake colonies?

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  8. What was the purpose of the Child Labor Act?

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  9. How did the U.S. government change its response to the Great Depression after the election of Franklin Roosevelt?

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  10. Where did most European immigrants to America in the late 19th century enter the country?

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  11. Who was the founder of New Hampshire?

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  12. Which of the following developments was directly responsible for the high literacy rates found in colonial American during the 18th century?

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  13. Why were New Yorkers especially angry with the Quartering Act?

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  14. Prior to the siege of Charleston, Henry Clinton and his men arrived off the coast of which state?

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  15. What were two innovations that helped the railroads grow?

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  16. How did the Federalists argued that the new government created by the Constitution would strengthen and protect the United States?

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  17. According to Andrew Carnegie what two things shouldn't a rich person do with his fortune?

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  18. What impact did Radical Republicans in Congress have on Reconstruction?

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  19. What was the structure of the legislative body created by the Articles of Confederation?

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  20. How did railroad technology affect young people?

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  21. What role did the press play in American life from the Civil War to World War I?

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  22. What influential function of the president was not included in the Constitution and was never envisioned by its framers?

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  23. During what two periods did the Supreme Court accept the states' rights position on federalism?

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  24. What trend related to population occurred during the industrialization boom of the late 1800s?

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  25. Was the rise of industry good for the United States?

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  26. What was the Hawaiian League?

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  27. Shirley Anita Chisholm, the first African-American woman elected to Congress, was elected by which state?

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  28. Why is the Battle of Little Bighorn also called Custer's Last Stand?

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  29. How much did the Dawes Plan help the economy?

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  30. What are three reasons why people wanted to ban alcohol?

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  31. What was life like before the Industrial Revolution?

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  32. Why did Alexander Hamilton propose paying the entire national debt at its face value?

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  33. What two major parts are there in the Legislative Branch?

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  34. How were Radical Republicans and moderate Republicans similar and different?

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  35. Why did governments raise tariffs in the early 1930s? What was the effect?

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