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  1. What event helped ensure Lincoln's reelection in 1864?

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  2. During the first three decades of the twentieth century, what was the main reason many African Americans left the South?

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  3. What are the first 10 Amendments are called?

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  4. How many "Southern forts remained in Union hands" at the time of Abraham Lincoln's inauguration?

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  5. What strategy does the United States pursue to deal with the threat of the Soviet Union?

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  6. Who was Andrew Jackson's secretary of state and one of his strongest supporters?

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  7. Though the Fair Housing Äct of 1968 banned residential segregation, many U.S. residential areas still divided ...

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  8. What was thought to be the fundamental goal of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal?

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  9. After World War II what happened to the population in the cities and suburbs?

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  10. Why did the Confederate army falter and eventually lose the battle at Petersburg, Virginia?

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  11. How did the ideas of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois challenge traditional ideas of African American identity?

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  12. Who said, " I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country"?

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  13. What did Washington Gladden, a leader in the social gospel movement, defend?

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  14. Who was the commander of the American army during the Revolutionary War?

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  15. How did some colonists get around the Navigation Acts?

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  16. How did Irish and German immigrants tend to differ?

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  17. Before the Civil War, why did most people on both sides believe it would be a very quick war?

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  18. How do you think electricity, the telephone, and the typewriter improved the nation's business output in the late 1800s?

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  19. Why did Congress tend to hold the most control during the Gilded Era?

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  20. What are the three requirements for President and VP?

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  21. How many states were there when President Washington sent out the proposals from Congress for approval in 1789?

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  22. How did Abraham Lincoln help ensure that border states supported the Union?

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  23. How does Federalist 51 advocate for seperate branches of government, Legislative checks and balances, division...

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  24. When was gold discovered in the Dakotas?

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  25. Did the United States win or lose the Vietnam War?

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  26. What did the Platt Amendment do? What is a protectorate?

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  27. How did the Industrial Revolution influence the production and spread of pianos?

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  28. What role did the government play in causing the Great Recession?

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  29. What factor led to Inflation in the Confederacy?

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  30. What economic problem did the Americans face in financing the war?

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  31. What was the primary source of income in the U.S. after the Revolutionary War?

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  32. What was Thomas Paine suggesting about the government when he said, "That a man whose only property was a jackass would lose his right to vote if the jackass died"?

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  33. What did A. Philip Randolph hope to accomplish by pressuring President Franklin D. Roosevelt to sign Executive order 8802?

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  34. What made Philadelphia a great area for factories and trade?

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  35. When was the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) established?

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