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Granted a large group of newly freed African-Americans “forty acres and a mule”

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Special Field Order 15

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Union general who waged a war of attrition against Robert E. Lee in Virginia

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Granted voting rights to all men, regardless of race

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15th Amendment

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Wealthy businessman and owner of Standard Oil

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J.D.Rockefeller

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President responsible for implementing “Presidential Reconstruction”

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Andrew Johnson

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Rejected the offer to command Union forces at the beginning of the Civil War

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Robert E. Lee

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Guaranteed equal protection under the law for all american citizens

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14th Amendment

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Union general who waged ‘total war’ on his march through Georgia

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William Sherman

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When a large company buys an interest in all parts of its manufacturing process

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Vertical integration

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Promised freedom to all enslaved African-Americans in the confederate states

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Battle which marked THE major military turning point in favor of Union forces in the Civil War

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Gettysburg

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President responsible for formulating the 10% Reconstruction Plan

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Abraham Lincoln

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Wealthy steel industrialist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries

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Andrew Carnegie

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Battle which marked the bloodiest single day in the Civil War

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Antietam

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Abolished the institution of slavery in the USA

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13th Amendment

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When a large company buys out or merges with its competitors

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Horizontal integration

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The term ‘carpetbagger’ was used to describe what?

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Northern Republican supporters who moved to the south after the Civil War to start new business enterprises

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Which Civil War battle was attended by a large audience of non-combatants?

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The Battle of Bull Run

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Where was the capital of the Confederacy?

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Richmond, VA

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Who were the two most famous Radical Republicans?

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Thaddeus Stevens and Senator Charles Sumner

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The Bessemer Process helped to give birth to which industry?

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The steel industry

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The ‘Talented Tenth’ was an expression used by which African-American activist?

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W.E.B. Dubois

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Where did General Robert E. Lee finally surrender to Ulysses S. Grant in April of 1865?

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Appomattox Courthouse

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The 1896 Supreme Court decision in the case of ‘Plessy vs. Ferguson’ upheld the controversial doctrine of __________________.

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‘Separate but equal’

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The term ‘Jim Crow’ came from what source?

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A minstrel show character

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True or false: Native Americans were able to peacefully retain the majority of their ancestral lands theough negotiations with the US

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False

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Who delivered the Atlanta Exposition Speech?

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Booker T. Washington

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Did George McClellan fight for the Union or Confederacy?

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Union

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What was Social Darwinism?

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A social doctrine during the 19th century that explained ‘survival of the fittest,’ and gave an excuse for social supperiority of white wealthy people.

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President of the American Federation of Labor

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Samuel Gompers

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Great Britain, France, nd Russia were the __________.

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Triple Entente

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British passenger ship sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915

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The Lusitania

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Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Turkey were known as _____________.

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The Central Powers

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Author of ‘The Passing of a Great Race’

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Madison Grant

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1896 Presidential Candidate who advocated for the free coinage of silver and supported populists?

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William Jennings Bryan

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Author of ‘A Century of Dishonor’

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Helen Hunt Jackson

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U. S. President who was a member of the Rough Riders

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Teddy Roosevelt

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Head of America’s Committee on Public Information (CPI) during WWI

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George Creel

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Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Italy were known as ____________.

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The Triple Alliance

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U. S. President who led America into the Spanish-American War

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William McKinley

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U. S. Battleship that mysteriously blew up in Havana Harbor in 1898

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The Maine

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Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and eventually the US, were known as _____________.

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The Allied Powers

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Author of ‘The Melting Pot’

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Israel Zangwill

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Author of ‘How the Other Half Lives’

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Jacob Riis

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What were the 3 major components of anti-immigrant nativism?

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  • Anti-radicalism
  • Anti-catholicism
  • Flat out racism towards non-WASPS
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What were the 3 major reforms that populists wanted?

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  • Federal regulation of the railroad industry
  • Federal income tax
  • Free coinage of silver
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What was the popular fashion modeled by Gibson Girls?

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Shirtwaists

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What were the ‘Three C’s’ of Teddy Roosevelt’s square deal?

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  • Control of corporations
  • Consumer protection
  • Conservation of the environment
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What territories did the US acquire from the Spanish-American war?

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  • Puerto Rico
  • Guam
  • The Philippines
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What technological innovation helped soldiers engage in trench warfare during WWI?

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Machine Guns

51
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Progressives opposed all of the following except:
A) direct election of US senators
B) State Referendums
C) corporate tax breaks
D) women's suffrage
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C) corporate tax breaks

52
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When the US entered WWI in 1917, what country pulled out of the war at the same time?

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Russia

53
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What organization was responsible for the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand?

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The Black Hand

54
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William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pullitzer were associated with ____________.

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Yellow Journalism

55
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Describe ‘new’ immigrants

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From Eastern Europe, non-english, ‘bad,’ not WASP

56
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Who wrote ‘The Jungle’ and what was it about?

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Upton Sinclair; the horrors of the Chicago meat-packing industry

57
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What pulled the US into WWI?

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The Zimmerman Telegram

58
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Nazi Germany’s 1938 annexation of Austria

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Anschluss

59
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Hitler’s minister of propaganda durinf WWII

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Joseph Goebbels

60
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The battle plan for Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union

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Operation Barbarossa

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U. S. President associate with the Teapot Dome Scandal

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Warren G. Harding

62
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Germany, Italy, and Japan during WWII

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The Axis Powers

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Head of the Manhattan Project and father of the atomic bomb

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Robert Oppenheimer

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The pro-business author of ‘The Man Nobody Knows’

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Bruce Barton

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Supreme commander of the Luftwaffe during WWII

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Hermann Goering

66
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England, France, Russia, and the US during WWII

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The Allied Powers

67
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Marked a major turning point for the Allied forces in the pacific theatre in WWII

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The Battle of Midway

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Nazi killing squads employed durinf Nazi Germany’s invasion of Russia

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Einsatzgruppen

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Secretary of the Treasury durinf the 1920’s who espoused trickle-down economics

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Andrew Mellon

70
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Marked a major turning point for Allied Forces in Northern Africa

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Battle of El Alamein

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U. S. President associated with the Great Crash and Great Depression

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Herbert Hoover

72
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Emphasized heavy deficit spending by the government to avert depression

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John Keynes

73
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The first ‘talkie’ in America

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‘The Jazz Singer’

74
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What was the Bonus Army?

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A group of American WWI veterans who petitioned the US government for financial assistance during the Great Depression

75
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The term ‘buying on margin’ refers to ____________.

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Purchasing stock on credit

76
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True or false: the ‘classic liberal’ approach to republican government in the 20’s was based on the writings of Montesquieu

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False

77
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The Allied commander of the D-Day invasion was ___________.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

78
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Nazi Germany went through what country in order to acquire the Sudetenland?

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Czechoslovakia

79
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The Lend-Lease agreement was between which two countries?

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The US and England

80
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The successful Nazi blitzkrieg through the Ardennes Forest led to the surrender of what country?

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France

81
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Who made the final decision to drop an atomic bomb on Japan?

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Harry Truman

82
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Hitler’s ‘final solution’ concerned his plan to __________.

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Eliminate all ‘undesirable’ races from the world’s population

83
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What is ‘lebensraum’?

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German for living space; Hitler’s plan to acquire more ‘living space’ for germany by expanding the country and knocking out undesirables

84
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What are the three components of the New Deal, and who wrote it?

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FDR; Relief, Recovery, Reform

85
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Who was Edward Bernays?

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The nephew of Sigmund Freud who later became the big name of advertising in the US and took advantage of America’s desire-based economy.

86
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What speech is associated with the Civil Rights Movement?

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“I have a dream”

87
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Who was the president of the Confederacy?

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Jefferson Davis

88
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Who wrote ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

89
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What was the first military confrontation of the Civil War?

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The Battle of Fort Sumter

90
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Before the Civil War, slavery was prohibited in some areas by the __________.

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Missouri Compromise

91
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Who served as president of Washington College?

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Robert E. Lee

92
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What was one result of the Federal Reserve’s failure to prevent the collapse of the banking system prior to the Great Depression?

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The money supply contracted

93
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What kept the US from joining the League of Nations?

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Opposition in the Senate

94
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What led to changing women’s roles during WWII?

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Lack of jobs and labor shortages

95
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What amendment gave women voting rights?

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19th

96
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Which U. S. President encouraged minorities to vote?

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Lyndon B. Johnson

97
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What conflict best represents an application of containment?

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The Vietnam War

98
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What country did Ronald Reagan call an ‘evil empire’?

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Russia

99
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What does the Patriot Act do?

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Basically gives the US government the license to spy on citizens for the sake of public safety and terrorist protection.

100
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The collapse of communism in the 1980’s led to the reunification of ____________.

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Germany

101
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What president normalized relations with Vietnam?

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Bill Clinton

102
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What regions are the sources of recent immigration to the US?

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Asia and Latin America

103
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The Open Door policy is associated with what country?

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China

104
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During the 19th century, Chinese immigrants played a major role in ___________.

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The building of the Transcontinental Railroad

105
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The wreckage from an invasion in Normandy, France, is from an attempt to _____________.

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Liberate Europe

106
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A major turning point in WWII for Germany was __________. Why?

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Stalingrad; because it denied Germany access to valuable oil resources

107
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Why did the Soviet Union build the Berlin Wall?

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To prevent escape of Eastern Europeans to the West

108
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What caused the value of stocks to drop significantly in the 20’s?

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Overspeculation

109
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Who gave the ‘iron curtain’ speech?

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Winston Churchill

110
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What was the Truman Doctrine’s policy?

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Containment

111
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What did the marshall plan do?

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Funnel money into european countries to help rebuilding and the fight against communism

112
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What organizations were anti-communist?

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NATO and SEATO

113
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What organization was pro-communism?

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The Warsaw Pact

114
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Where is the first place you see containment?

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Korea

115
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When does the US get involved in the Korean war?

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After north korea invaded south korea

116
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Who was the leader of the US resistance in South Korea?

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MacArthur

117
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What are North Korea and South Korea divided by?

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The 38th parallel

118
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Who led a communist revolution in Cuba?

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Fidel Castro

119
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What are North Vietnam and South Vietnam divided by?

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The 17th parallel

120
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Who were the Vietcong?

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A group of Vietnamese rebels who supported Ho Chi Minh

121
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Who became president after JFK?

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Lyndon B. Johnson

122
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Which president had the policy of Vietnamization?

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Richard Nixon

123
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Who overall won the cold war?

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The USA

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