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  1. Who was Squanto in the founding of the Plymouth Colony?

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  2. How did the Johnson's Great Society affect poverty?

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  3. Who did Polk send to provoke Mexico into war?

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  4. Which colony became the center for all the colonies?

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  5. What did the ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright guarantee?

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  6. How did Congress in 1850 resolve the dispute over admitting states to the Union?

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  7. Which railroad company was at the center of one of the biggest scandals of President Grant's presidency?

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  8. How did the federal budget crisis end in 1995?

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  9. What happened at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo that raised concerns around the world about U.S. actions?

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  10. Why were tenements a difficult place to live for the urban working class?

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  11. Why were many African Americans drawn to Marcus Garvey's message and movement?

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  12. How did northerners feel about tariffs at the start of Andrew Jackson's presidency?

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  13. What was the first national event covered by a radio station?

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  14. Why did the government create the Office of War Mobilization?

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  15. How did The Feminine Mystique inspire the women's movement?

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  16. Did the United States' view on slavery change after slaves were freed?

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  17. What were the three R's of FDR's New Deal?

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  18. What occurred that caused New Orleans to flood during Hurricane Katrina?

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  19. According to "How the Other Half Lives", why were buildings in the slums bad places to raise babies?

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  20. How did Gompers background (how he grew up and came to America) affect what he accomplished as a union leader?

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  21. Which political group made up the dominant voice in Congress by December of 1865?

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  22. Why did Alexander Hamilton believe that the British constitution was "the best model the world has ever produced"?

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  23. How was the conflict surrounding the election of 1824 finally settled?

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  24. How did railroads and ranching change the landscape of the West?

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  25. Why did the four goals of the progressive reform movement struggled to achieve?

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  26. How did Spain help the Americans in the Revolutionary War?

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  27. What two groups were primarily responsible for building the railroad, and what was the "great wager"?

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  28. Why did Stephen Douglas's idea of popular sovereignty fail to bring unity to American's views on slavery?

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  29. How did the U.S. government control the economy during World War I?

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  30. What made the Knights of Labor so successful in bringing workers together?

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  31. How would both the North and the South have expected to benefit from the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

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  32. What was the most important principle of the republic to George Washington?

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  33. What governments did Truman lobby for government aid?

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  34. What were common activities at the Hull House in Chicago?

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  35. Starting in the 1800s, members of the suffragist movement in the United States focused on women's right to do what?

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