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  1. What sisters, born on a plantation, fought to end slavery?

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  2. How did British authorities respond to efforts by colonial legislatures to restrict or halt the importation of slave?

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  3. What was the solution agreed upon when it came to counting or not counting slaves for representation in Congress?

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  4. Progressives wanted who in America to take action in correcting problems in cities?

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  5. Who led the National Women's Party and protested President Wilson?

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  6. What is the separation of powers under the U.S Constitution?

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  7. What caused George Washington to change his policy on African Americans in the army?

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  8. What African American pressured FDR to issue an executive order which made discrimination in hiring illegal?

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  9. How did Washington's inauguration reflect the nation's deep respect for him?

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  10. Why did President Truman order U.S. steel mills to remain open in 1952 during a labor problem?

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  11. What did the authors of the Constitution want to avoid?

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  12. Why and how did the Americans force the Japanese to trade with the United States?

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  13. Why do you think the Triangle Shirtwaist fire happened? What were some of the results of this tragedy?

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  14. What was a factor in Virginia colonists' decision to use slave labor?

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  15. Who were some of the first Europeans who kept a record of their explorations in Oklahoma? What country were they from?

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  16. What did Rutherford B. Hayes do to clean up the New York customs house?

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  17. How many different types of Cotton Gins were there?

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  18. Which political party dominated politics in the northern U. S. from the election of Abraham Lincoln until the election of FDR in 1932?

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  19. Why was the Securities and Exchange Commission created?

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  20. Which colony was established to help reduce prison overcrowding in England by allowing debtors settle in the New World?

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  21. Following the Civil War, what was the political group which took the view of Reconstruction that harsh penaltie...

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  22. What was the Teller amendment?

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  23. What was life like for the Plains Indians before and after the arrival of large numbers of American settlers?

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  24. Why do you think the U.S. government had difficulty defeating the Seminole?

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  25. Why did King George lIl forbid colonists from setting in the Ohio River Valley atter it was gained by Britain from France?

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  26. Which man did General Washington make the Chief Inspector of the colonial troops?

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  27. What invention provided the most rapid communication between Civil War officers and President Lincoln?

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  28. Which natural resource became more available to the American public as a result of railroad expansion?

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  29. What was added to the US Constitution to protect citizen's individual rights?

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  30. What was the response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

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  31. What new innovations changed life in the U.S in 1870?

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  32. Where was the Mayflower headed?

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  33. How many years after the protest of the tea act did the Colonies declare their independence from England?

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  34. What is the melting-pot theory?

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  35. If you had been a native-born Japanese American in 1942, what do you think would have been your reaction to the internment order?

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