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What famous speech did Lincoln give to dedicate a war cemetery for one of the bloodiest battles of the war

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Gettysburg address

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What term means the draft , or the compulsory enrollment of men into military service

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Conscription

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Which state was unconstitutionally admitted into the union during the war

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West Virginia

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What term refers to the national governments attempt to rebuild the south according to radical ideas

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Reconstruction

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What act of Congress was designed to protect cabinet members from being fired by the president

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Tenure of office act

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What was the most severe depression in the first one hundred years of America’s history

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Panic of 73

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What government agency was designed to help former slaves during the war

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Freedmans bureau

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Which extremist group opposed radical reconstruction and sought to prevent blacks from voting during reconstruction

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KKK

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9
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Which scandal involved a group of criminal use of funds intended for railroad construction

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Credit mobilizer

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What term was applied to the political agreement whereby federal troops would be removed from the south

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Compromise of 1877

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What invention enabled farmers to fence their land on the treeless plains

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Barbed wire

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12
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What was the last major effort by the Indians to retain their land

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Sioux war

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13
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What term is used for tracts of land set aside for Indians

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Reservations

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What Chinese rebellion against foreigners was stopped by an international military force that included US troops

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Boxer rebellion

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What term means the extension of power by one people or country over another for the benefit of the controlling country

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Imperialism

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What term means mission boards that are not supported by guaranteed funds from a denomination

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Faith missions

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What term was given to the sensationalized news reporting that became popular in the US late in the 19th century

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Yellow journalism

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18
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In which war the US fight over the independence of Cuba

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Spanish American war

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19
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In what year did the US enter the Great War

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1917

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20
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What term was popularly used to refer to American soldiers in ww1

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Dough boys

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21
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On what exact date did the German sign an armistice ending world war

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November 11 1918

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What name was given to the clause in the peace treaty making German responsible for the war

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War guilt clause

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What unreasonable economic demand did Britain and France impose on Germany in the treaty of Versailles

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War reparations

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What was the name given to the economic crisis in the 1930s

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Great Depression

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25
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What crisis swept the nation at the very end of Hoover’s administration threatening economic chaos

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Banking crisis

26
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What was the name attached to Roosevelt’s Efforts to conquer the depression

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New deal

27
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What was the name given to the group of advisors who helped Roosevelt formulate a plan to overcome the depression

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Brain trusts

28
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Was was the southern Great Plains called during the devastating drought of the 1930s

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Dust bowl

29
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What act empowered the president to supply any allied nation on almost any terms he wished

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Lend lease act

30
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What agreement between Churchill and Roosevelt listed their common principles and goals in the war effort

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Atlantic charter

31
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In which section of northern France did the allied expeditionary force land in 1944

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Normandy

32
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At which winter battle did the nazis counterattack against the allied invasion of Europe almost stopping the advance into Germany

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Battle of the Bulge

33
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Which country did German soldiers invade beginning ww2

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Poland

34
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Where did general mcarthur launch a brilliant amphibious invasion of North Korea that saved South Korea

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Inchon

35
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What 1961 operation against communist Cuba was originally backed by the US but resulted in disaster when aid was withdrawn at the last minute

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Bay of pigs

36
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What did east Germany begin building In 1961 to prevent refugees from escaping to the west

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Berlin Wall

37
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What nickname was given to the conservative southern democrats who joined the states rights party in 1948

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Dixiecrats

38
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What term was coined to describe accusations based on lies distortion , and innuendo

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McCarthyism

39
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What government health insurance program was instituted in 1965 to help elderly people pay their medical expenses

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Medicare

40
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What were pro communist south Vietnamese guerrillas called

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Viet cong

41
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Where did North Vietnamese meet with the US for peace talks

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France, Paris

42
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What was presidents Nixon policy of reducing American forces in Vietnam and increasing the role of the south Vietnamese called

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Vietnamization

43
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At what university were 4 students killed during a 1970 anti war protest

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Kent state

44
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What two other southeast Asian nations fell to communism after the fall of south Vietnam

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Laos Cambodia

45
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What was the technical name for Reagan’s economic philosophy

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Supply side economics

46
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What were anti Sandinista guerrillas in Nicaragua called

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Contras

47
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In what country did the mujahideen resist soviet occupation for ten years

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Afghanistan

48
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Who was Walter Mondales vice presidential running mate

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Geraldine Ferraro

49
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What does the term perestroika mean

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Restructuring

50
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What was the proper name for the project that critics derisively called starwars

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SDI

51
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What label did bill Clinton coin for himself in the 1992 campaign by backing away from big government , high taxes and free spending

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New Democrat

52
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What was presidents ford main weapon in his stand off with congress

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Veto

53
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What term was applied to the combination of high energy prices and oil shortages in the 1970s

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Energy crisis

54
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What do economists call the simultaneous occurence of high inflation and high unemployment

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Stagflation

55
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What is the result when a nation imports more than it exports

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Trade deficit

56
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What faction was driven by social and moral issues to join the traditional conservatives in the late 1970s and early 1980s

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New right

57
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What presidential power that congress finally passed did the Supreme Court strike down as unconstitutional

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Line item veto

58
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As he had in 1992 , who turned up In the 1996 presidential election as the reform party candidate

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Ross Perot

59
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Which African country did American forces leave after a failed peacekeeping mission

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Somalia

60
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Bill Clinton was the second president to have this happen to him , Andrew Johnson the first

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Impeachment

61
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Name one of Obama’s two Supreme Court nominees during his first 2 Years in office

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Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan

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