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| A majority of the early English migrants to the Chesapeake Bay Area were... |
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| African Americans who fled the violence of the Reconstruction South in 1879 and 1880 to begin a fresh life in Kansas were known as... |
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| A distinguishing feature of American society in the early nineteenth century was the... |
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| increasing readership of newspapers |
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| President Theodore Roosevelt addressed all of the following issues in his presidency except: unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry, monopolization and consolidation in the railroad industry, railroad freight trains, insider trading on the stock market, unsafe drug products |
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| insider trading on the stock market |
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| The Palmer raids of 1919 and 1920 were most closely related to... |
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| fear of communism and radicalism |
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| A significant demographic development in the two decades following the Second World War was a |
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| After the French and Indian War, British political leaders were determined to.... |
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| require the North American colonies to pay a greater share of the empire's administrative expenses |
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| The Missouri Compromise was a victory for antislavery advocates because it... |
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| closed most of the Louisiana Purchase Territory to slavery |
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| The Republican Party of the 1850's took what stance on slavery? |
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| Slavery should remain where it is, however it should not be extended to new territories |
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| According to historian Frederick Jackson Turner, a key factor in the development of American individualism and democracy was... |
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| During reconstruction, a major economic development in the South was the |
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| During the Second World Wat, Japanese Americans were relocated because of |
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| fear of possible subversive activity against the war effort |
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| What was the result of the Cuban Missile Crises? |
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| The Soviets withdrew their missiles from Cuba in exchange for a promise from the U.S. to not attack Fidel Castro |
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| Anne Hutchinson was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637 because she |
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| challenged the religious beliefs of the colony's leaders |
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| The Government of the Articles of Confederation was successful in resolving the problem of how to |
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| provide for statehood of western territories |
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| What happened as a result of the Bacon Rebellion in 1676? |
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| tensions between backcountry farmers and the tightwater gentry were exposed |
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| All of the following contributed to the Northern fear of a slave power conspiracy in the 1840's and 1850's EXCEPT the... enforcement of a new slave law, decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case, imposition of a gag rule in the House of Representatives, proposal of the Ostend Manifesto, passage of the Wilmont Proviso |
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| passage of the wilmont proviso |
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| What was common of both the Slaughterhouse cases in 1873 and the 1883 Civil Rights cases? |
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| They weakened the protections given to African Americans under the fourteenth amendment |
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| Settlement workers of the late nineteenth century would most likely have engaged in all of the following EXCEPT...establishing day nurseries for working mothers, offering literacy and language classes for immigrants, publishing report on deplorable housing conditions, teaching classes on cooking and dressmaking, organizing women workers into labor unionss |
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| organizing women workers into labor unions |
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| During the Civil War, the Republican Party passed legislation promoting economic development considering all of the following EXCEPT the... granting of government subsidies to encourage the export of manufactured goods, establishment of a high tariff to protect American industry from foreign competition, organization of a national banking system to provide a uniform national currency,provision of government loans and land grants to provide companies to construct a transcontinental railroad, passage of the Homestead Act |
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| granting of government subsidies to encourage the export of manufacture goods. |
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| An underlying cause of the Great Depression, which began in 1929, was... |
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| overproduction in the manufacturing and farm sectors |
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| Mercantilism as applied by Britain to its North American colonies meant that the British government |
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| regulated colonial shipping and tobacco production |
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| A major consequence of the 1973 Yom Kippur War in the Middle East was that it led immediately to... |
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| an energy crisis sparkled by OPEC's embargo of oil to the Western world |
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| What is one key occurrence during radical reconstruction? |
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"Every contract, combination in form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce in any territory of the U.S....is hereby illegal."
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| limiting the power of labor unions |
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| A key diplomatic achievement of Richard M. nixon's presidency was... |
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| The containment policy articulated by George F. Kennan in 1947 proposed... |
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| efforts by the United States to block the expansion of the Soviet Unions' influence |
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| What is most true of the American women during the Second World War? |
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| Those who took industrial jobs learned new skills and earned better pay than in jobs previously open to them |
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| What is most true off George Wallace's third-party campaign in 1968? |
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| He appealed to many middle-class voters upset by the civil disobedience associated with the Civil Rights movement and antiwar demonstration |
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