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  1. How did the Emancipation Proclamation become a turning point in the Civil War?

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  2. What warning does Patrick Henry give about the powers of Congress in the proposed constitution?

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  3. What term means to leave the union?

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  4. What was the purpose of the Women's Army Corps?

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  5. What were Nixon's policies toward China and the Soviet Union? Why were they so surprising at the time?

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  6. In what way did President Dwight Eisenhower disagree with Harry Truman on foreign policy?

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  7. How would one best characterize Roosevelt's positions on conservation and the environment ?

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  8. Why did Jackson veto the bill to renew the Second Bank of the United States?

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  9. What was the primary motivation behind the Non-Aligned Movement during the Cold War?

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  10. How did the United States try to prevent a Communist revolution in China?

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  11. What was the purpose of the Treaty of Fort Laramie?

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  12. What Cold War institution continued into the 1990s and beyond because of close ties between the government and business?

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  13. How did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 reflect Thomas Jefferson's ideas?

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  14. What was Roe vs. Wade?

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  15. Who is Phyllis Schlafly? What was the New Right?

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  16. How did President Johnson's approach to Reconstruction differ from that of Radical Republicans?

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  17. What did African Americans seek to escape when they moved to the North in the 1920's?

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  18. How did the War of 1812 affect the industrial development of the United States?

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  19. How did the Supreme Court rulings in 1883 work against the Civil Rights Act of 1875?

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  20. What did the Harlem Renaissance allow African Americans to do that they could not do before?

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  21. George Washington was the commander and leader of which side of the American Revolution?

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  22. What European nation aided the Continental Army?

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  23. What were the main target of both the Palmer Raids (1919-1920) and the McCarthy Hearing of 1950s?

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  24. Where did the Continental Army spend the winter of 1777?

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  25. During the 1840s, many more Americans than British settled in the Oregon Country. How do you think this influenced negotiations over the territory?

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  26. What decided how slaves would counted when determining a state's population?

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  27. How far did the Arab Empire spread under the Umayyads?

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  28. Is Kumbh Mela commercializing spirituality? There are billboards, posters and stalls put up by gurus and sadhus, do they serve any purpose?

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  29. What are myths and facts about Kumbh Mela?

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  30. Is the Maha Kumbh mela the largest religious gathering in the world, or that of the Hajj to Mecca?

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  31. What is the history and significance of Kumbh/Maha Kumbh melas among Hindus? How did it start? What is its cultural and social significance?

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  32. Who are Aghoris? What do they actually do and why do they only come out in public during Kumbhs?

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  33. What are the fascinating or unknown facts about Kumbh Mela?

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  34. What are some of the lesser known facts about Kumbh Mela?

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  35. Why did Americans show little interest in expanding the nation's territory and increasing international influence in the years immediately following the Civil War?

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