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  1. Why were US veterans resented when they returned home from the Vietnam War?

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  2. What is the Social Security system? How did it initially work? What were the sources of funding and whom did it help?

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  3. What are the rights of an accused person?

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  4. How do you think the postwar feelings in America influenced the election of 1920?

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  5. What were the three main themes of Wilson’s peace plan?

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  6. Quantrill's Raiders attacked and destroyed much of which two towns?

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  7. How much did the US spend on the Vietnam War?

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  8. Where did Robert E. Lee meet with Ulysses S. Grant to arrange the surrender of the Confederacy?

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  9. What were the major results of the New Deal?

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  10. Under the treaty that ended the American Revolution, what became of the area from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi?

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  11. In the first half of the 1800s, who was most likely to be a political liberal?

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  12. The war of 1812 began in 1812 and ended in which year?

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  13. How did Johnson's war on poverty strive to ensure greater fairness in American society?

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  14. How did fears of communist infiltration affect American culture in the 1950s and early 1960s?

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  15. What factors led to Jefferson victory in 1800?

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  16. What did the government seek to do by following the Termination Policy?

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  17. Which reform did Hiram Johnson accomplish as governor of California?

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  18. What was the source of power for the Populist movement of Benjamin Tillman?

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  19. Who surrendered at the Battle of Yorktown?

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  20. What did Northerners fear Southern slave owners might do?

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  21. As of 2008, what issues are the main focus of the United States' climate policy?

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  22. How were Thomas Jefferson's Democratic Republican beliefs compromised during his presidency?

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  23. What advantages did the British hope to gain by limiting westward settlement in 1763?

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  24. What are two things Southern whites did to circumvent the Fifteenth Amendment?

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  25. In what ways did the leadership of John Paul Jones contribute to the American Revolution?

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  26. Why did Americans feel threatened by the spread of communism at home and overseas?

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  27. What was the condition of the Texas economy as a result of the Civil War?

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  28. What important idea did James Madison present in Virginia Plan?

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  29. What did The Feminine Mystique reveal about women, and how did readers respond to it?

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  30. In what way did the Court ruling in Muller v. Oregon contradict the ideas behind the women's rights movement?

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  31. What was the impact of the labor shortage that resulted from the mobilization of U.s. troops in 1917?

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  32. What was the main goal of protestors at the 1963 March on Washington?

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  33. What was the connection between the Three-Fifths Compromise and taxes?

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  34. What did Sam Adams' friends buy for him before he went to the Continental Congress?

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  35. What does "shikata ga nai" mena? How does it affect the Japanese Americans response to the internment?

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