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16 Cards in this Set
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Who sued the Board of Education of Topeka, KS to overturn “separate but equal”?
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Brown
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What ship was supposedly bombed, starting the Spanish-American war?
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Maine
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What event started with snowballs thrown at soldiers and ended with five people shot by British troops?
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Boston Massacre
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Which 1815 battle was Napoleon's final defeat?
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Waterloo
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What battle saw fighting in Devil's Den, the Peach Orchard, Little Round Top, and Seminary Ridge?
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Gettysburg
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What war featured the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Battle of Balaclava?
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Crimean War
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Where were Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie killed during the Texas Revolution?
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Alamo
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What is the name of the battle which featured Custer's Last Stand?
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Little Bighorn
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What period of time, 1865-1877, was governed by the Wade-Davis Bill?
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Reconstruction
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What is the term for drawing strange Congressional boundaries to favor one party?
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gerrymandering
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Pope Urban called for the first of what holy wars, which recaptured Jerusalem in 1099?
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Crusades
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What treaty, signed in a French palace, demanded German reparations and ended World War I?
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Treaty of Versailles
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What period of time started with the stock market crash of 1929?
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The Great Depression
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What period, also called the Age of Reason, was the heyday of philosophers like Voltaire and Rousseau?
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Enlightenment
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What period saw the storming of the Bastille, the Tennis Court Oath, and the Reign of Terror?
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French Revolution
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What collection of Confucius' writings contains his philosophy?
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Analects
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