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The Louisiana Purchase was important because?

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it doubled the size of the United States

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Which was the first nation to establish settled colonies in North America?

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Spain

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Iron Curtain nations refused to accept Marshall Plan aid because?

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Stalin refused to allow ant ties between his satellites and his only strong rival

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Jim Crow laws in the South violated?

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the constitutional right to the equal protection of the laws for all citizens

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_________________ established the principe of "separate but equal" facilities for black Americans.

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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On what grounds did the Supreme Court declare in 1857 that antislavery laws were unconstitutional?

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the fifth amendment protection of rights to private property

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Civil Rights movement leaders generally advocated __________ as the most effective weapon against Jim Crow Laws.

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peaceful demonstrations

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_____________ provided the final push that made the United States declare war on Germany in 1917.

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the publication of the Zimmerman telegram

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___________ sets out the structure of the U.S. government and the individual rights of the citizens.

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the Constitution

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The term Harlem Renaissance refers to __________ during the Jazz Age.

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a literary and artistic movement

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Which best describes the common thread that linked the writers of the "Lost Generation"?

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disillusionment with ideals such as chivalry and romance

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The development of _____________ gave the working class some leverage over business owners for the first time in history.

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labor unions

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When Black Codes were passed throughout the old Confederacy after the Civil War, the U.S. government responded by ______________?

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sending troops to occupy the South to supervise compliance with the law

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Britain and France went to war in North America over conflicting claims to ___________?

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the Ohio River Valley area

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Which major figure of the Enlightenment first suggested a government of multiple branches with checks and balances?

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Baron de Montesquieu

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The Confederacy was at a disadvantage in a war of attrition because ____________.

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it had a smaller population of able-bodied men

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With which goal was the Republican Party formed in 1857?

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to end the expansion of slavery

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Henry Clay's American System, proposed in the early 1800s, included all the following provisions except

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protective tariffs on imports

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How did their experiences with American Indians help the colonists in the Revolutionary War?

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The American Indians had showed the colonists how to fight like guerrillas

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Which basic constitutional principle did Richard Nixon violate as president?

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equality of all citizens under the law

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___________ is notorious in American history for creating public hysteria that forced the United States into declaring war on Spain in 1898.

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William Randolph Hearst

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The era of Prohibition gave rise to all these new slang terms except _____________

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muckraker

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What was the most important purpose of the Berlin Wall?

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to prevent citizens of East Germany and other Iron Curtain nations from defecting to the West

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Panama gave the United States perpetual sovereignty over the Panama Canal Zone in exchange for __________

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U.S. support in Panama's war for independence

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The Articles of Confederation failed for all these reasons except _____________

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they created a legislature exactly like the British Parliament

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The Monroe Doctrine, the Roosevelt Corollary, and the Good Neighbor Policy all relate to the relationship between the United States and __________

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Central and South America

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In the days leading up to the American Revolution, the British Parliament singled out the colony of ______________ for punishment

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Massachusetts

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After the Civil War, the primary goal of the old guard of the Confederacy was to ___________

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restore southern society to the way it had been before war

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One consequence of the War of 1812 was a lasting alliance between the United States and ___________

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Britain

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____________ is known to history as the father of the U.S. Constitution.

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James Madison

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All these political leaders were victims of assassins' bullets in the Civil Rights/ Vietnam War era except ______

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Lyndon Johnson

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The Gettysburg Address served as an important reminder of all these ideas except __________

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that government compromises had caused the situation that led to the war

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Which European nation emerged from World War 2 as a great world power?

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the Soviet Union

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___________ was the central issue over which the Mexican War was fought.

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Territorial rights

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The Black Panthers and the Black Power movement broke from the mainstream Civil Rights movement because their leaders did not support _______

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peaceful resistance

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The government established the Department of Agriculture to help Plain farmers address the issue of ________

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irrigation

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Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party by passing _________

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the Intolerable Acts

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Which nation did not participate in the peace conference held at Versailles in 1919?

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Russia

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All these women played a significant role on the fight for women's suffrage except __________

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Gertrude Stein

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The Great Society programs achieved which of the following?

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They raised millions of Americans' incomes above the poverty level

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Which accurately describes the U.S. textile-manufacturing industry between the Industrial Revolution and the Civil War?

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The South grew cotton and shipped it north for spinning and weaving

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The New Deal programs were designed to combat ____________

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the Great Depression

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___________ was a notable figure in the U.S. Congress during the nineteenth century for achieving compromises on divisive issues.

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Henry Clay

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The term Viet Cong refers to _________

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South Vietnamese fighters who supported Ho

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What was the main purpose of the Monroe Doctrine?

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to imply that the United States would fight any further European attempt to colonize in the West

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John Brown's goal is best described as __________

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the abolition of slavery throughout the United States

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The USSR and the United States nearly reached the point of nuclear war during ________

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the Cuban Missile Crisis

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American women age 21 and over gained the right to vote with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment during _________

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the 1920s

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Congress repealed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in response to ________

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the bombing of Cambodia

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On what grounds did the colonists oppose various acts of Parliament during the 1760s and early 1770s?

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that the colonists were not represented in Parliament

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The Pentagon Papers are significant because they ________

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proved that the White House had lied to the public about the Vietnam War

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The doctrine of nullification states that _______

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no state is bound to obey a federal law that it considers unconstitutional

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During the Progressive Era, the Seventeenth Amendment made the system for electing ________ more democratic.

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members of the Senate

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________ is historically significant for her multivolume autobiography dealing with westward migration and frontier life in the 1870s and 1880s.

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Laura Ingalls Wilder

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The Iroquois changed sides during the French and Indian War because

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the tide of war had turned in favor of the British

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Which best explains why communism, as it was practiced, was not satisfactory to the peoples of Eastern Europe?

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It refused them basic freedoms that they demanded as a human right