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  1. How did the typewriter change who worked in offices?

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  2. What was the HUAC? How did its tactics help lead to McCarthyism?

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  3. How did Spain’s early entry into colonization in the Caribbean, Mexico, and South America shape European and American developments in this period?

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  4. What plan gave larger states more votes making it unfair for small states?

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  5. What was unique about the election of 1876?

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  6. How did Missouri's application as a slave state in 1819 challenge U.S. law?

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  7. Which two countries did the newly formed United States have problems with?

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  8. What did Ben Franklin set up to protect the colonies?

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  9. What right did women gain during the Roaring Twenties?

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  10. How many Confederate soldiers were killed during the Civil War?

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  11. In three decisions in the early 1800s, whose powers were backed up by the supreme court?

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  12. Explain why the missouri compromise line did not provide a solution to the problem of california’s statehood ?

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  13. What role did Democrats have in Congress in the decades following the New Deal?

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  14. Which provision of the original Constitution allows Congress to enact legislation that adapts to changing circumstances?

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  15. Why does Douglass feel that suffrage for the black man is so important?

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  16. During the 1920s, controversies concerning the Scopes trial, national Prohibition, and the behavior of "flappers" were all signs of disagreement over what?

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  17. How do movements in the Charleston dance from the 1920s reflect the time in which it was often done?

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  18. Would you consider Charlotte Perkins Gilman to be a muckraker?

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  19. What three steps did Hamilton's financial plan include?

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  20. How did General Washington and the Continental Army manage to take Trenton and Princeton from the British, and why were they important victories?

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  21. Why did the unification process for the colonists evolve slowly?

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  22. Describe two early events that provided the example of unity for the colonists?

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  23. Why do you feel the colonists opposed the idea of separation and establishing independence from England during the First Continental Congress?

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  24. What is Jackson's justifications of the Indian Removal Act? Depiction of what life was like for those who were ...

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  25. Why is Battle of Saratoga thought to be the "turning point" of the war?

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  26. What did Roosevelt want his Square Deal program to achieve?

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  27. Why did the South use slavery in their economy?

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  28. What election reforms were put in place to increase participation in government by citizens?

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  29. What was the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986?

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  30. Which state was least affected by the increase production of cotton from 1820 to 1860?

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  31. What was the Indian Education Act?

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  32. What role did the French play in the defeat of Cornwallis at Yorktown?

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  33. What did Florence Kelly's efforts convince many states to do?

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  34. What was the Country of Texas known as?

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  35. How would you describe and explain the significance of McCulloch v. Maryland?

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