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  1. What rights were the women of colonial Texas denied?

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  2. What parts of the book "Of mice and men" relates to the real life great depression/life in America?

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  3. Why did the Whig party collapse?

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  4. What is a major flaw in the electoral college system?

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  5. How did John D. Rockefeller use trusts to avoid Ohio laws against horizontal integration?

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  6. How did Thomas Jefferson's ideas about how the president's house should look reflect his ideas about the presidency?

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  7. What new relationship with Hawaii did Congress approve in 1898?

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  8. What did Robert Owen do in response to capitalism's problems?

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  9. What role did Dwight D. Eisenhower play in the North Africa campaign?

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  10. What were some of the problems with banks in the 1920s/30s and how did FDR restore confidence in them?

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  11. How did geography influence the economy in the Mid-Atlantic/Middle colonies?

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  12. What was the destination of most Dust Bowl migrants?

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  13. What were the nation's economic problems when Washington became president?

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  14. What was the American public's opinion about joining the League of Nations?

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  15. What did James Madison say was priority #1 in the new government?

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  16. What happened between France and England while Washington was president?

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  17. What service was started by the creation of Rural Free Delivery?

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  18. What were the three parts of Hamilton's financial plan to solve the nation's economic problems?

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  19. Which general helped the South win the war's first major battle as well as other big battles, and was accidentally shot by his own troops?

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  20. In the years 1840-1850 which Northeastern state had the largest white population?

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  21. Who was the President of the United States when Reconstruction officially ended?

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  22. Why did scholars have problems recognizing the traditions of Native American literature?

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  23. What did the Sherman Anti-Trust Act attempt to do?

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  24. Why did the idea of territorial expansion, America's Manifest Destiny, become a cause that cut across virtually all regional, political, and class lines?

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  25. Which European country first claimed the area that is now Oklahoma?

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  26. What was the successful Union strategy for taking Vicksburg?

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  27. What factors contributed to the number and treatment of slaves in a region?

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  28. Why did the role the "Old Eighteen" played in the Battle of Gonzales require so much courage?

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  29. How did the Indian Removal Act go against moral, political, constitutional, and practical concerns?

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  30. Following the Pullman Strike, how did the Supreme Court rule in the case of In re Debs?

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  31. How did slaves build lives and communities of their own within the institution of slavery?

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  32. When and why did the secession begin? What state seceded first?

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  33. How did 19th-century slavery supporters use political, moral, and economic arguments to defend slavery?

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  34. What are some similarities between the first-wave and second-wave feminists?

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  35. At what age do most Americans typically enter the work force with full time employment?

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