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  1. What do you think the Sacco and Vanzetti case shows about America in the 1920s?

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  2. Who said "Give me liberty or give me death!"?

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  3. What was the “St. Louis Affair"?

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  4. Which statement about the differences between the House of Representatives and the senate is true?

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  5. Why did elites like John Adams and urban workers both support the revolution?

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  6. Why did the Apache nomads of the Great Plains flee to New Mexico where they raided Spanish settlements?

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  7. How does America's pre-World War II isolationism relate to a discussion of the Marshall Plan, the Berlin airlift, and NATO?

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  8. What were Comwallis's mistakes in battle strategy?

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  9. Why did Martin Luther King believe the Vietnam War was morally wrong?

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  10. What famous event in American history took place mostly in the Southeast region beginning in 1861?

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  11. What did America do when negations stalled over the planned canal through Central America?

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  12. Why did the actions of Arkansas governor Orval Faubus regarding school integration gain national attention?

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  13. Why did President Roosevelt want support for the Great White Fleet?

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  14. How do you see Locke's ideas represented in Jefferson's writing? What are some similarities between the pieces of writing?

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  15. How did manifest destiny help shape the U.S. government's policies of land acquisition?

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  16. What form of discrimination most directly affected Mexican Americans?

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  17. Why was the United Stayes willing to accept only a limited number of of Jewish refugees?

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  18. After the establishment of the Jamestown colony in 1607, the British established other colonies in the Southeast primarily for which purpose?

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  19. Why was the Supreme Court's decision in Wesberry v. Sanders important?

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  20. What was the status of U.S. workplace safety laws in 1900?

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  21. Why were colonists in New England angry at King James ll and Governor Edmund Andros of New England?

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  22. Why did Mexico offer Americans land in Texas?

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  23. How did the Federal Reserve system hold up during the Great Depression?

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  24. What was Frederick Douglas' role in the abolition movement?

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  25. Who were among the first to articulate Progressive ideas?

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  26. How did the economic trends of the 1920s help cause the Great Depression?

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  27. What led to the rise of the Populist movement, and what effect did it have?

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  28. What reasons did average Americans of the late 1800s have to approve of the railroad companies, and what reasons did they have to disapprove of them?

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  29. How did the economic factors of scarcity and supply and demand affect the lives of the mountain men in the Oregon Country?

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  30. What is an example of a former ethnic enclave that is now a diverse neighborhood?

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  31. Reconstruction ended predominantly for what reason?

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  32. What did the colonial delegates speak up for in their assemblies?

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  33. What effect did The Dust Bowl have on The Great Depression?

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  34. How do 5 Themes of Geography relate to Nation & citizenship?

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  35. Why did Japanese Americans generally face more restrictions than Italian or German Americans during World War II?

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