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How did immigration of the original 13 colonies differ from immigration during the 19th & 20th centuries?
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The original immigrants did not speak English; afterward, most immigrants did.
The original immigrants came mostly from Great Britain; afterward, immigrants came from all over the world.
The original immigrants were Native Americans; afterward, most immigrants were Europeans
The original immigrants were mostly wealthy; afterward, immigrants were mostly poor.
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What was the result of all the new technologies introduced during World War 1?
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They allowed Germany to take France easily
They made the war much shorter than earlier wars
They made it easier for the Allies to advance through Germany
They made it easier to kill and wound more soldiers than ever before
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How did immigration of the original 13 colonies differ from immigration during the 19th & 20th centuries?
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What was the result of all the new technologies introduced during World War 1?
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The president who signed the Indian Removal Act, the forced relocation of the Five "Civilized" Native American tribes from land in the Southeast?
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How might a believer in Manifest Destiny feel about American Indians?
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What advantage did the Confederates have over the Union early on in the Civil War?
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How could the British government have prevented the American Revolution?
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How was issuing the Emancipation Proclamation a turning point in the Civil War? (see image)
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How did the Fourteenth Amendment affect the American legal system? (see image)
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Based on the quote above, which governmental policies did Chief Joseph oppose? (see image)
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In this excerpt, which of the following arguments was President Jackson making to justify removing American Indians from lands they had occupied for centuries? (see image)
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In this speech, Frederick Douglass was speaking on behalf of which group? (see image)
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Which principle of government found in the Iroquois Constitution influenced the framing of the U.S. Constitution? (see image)
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According to this excerpt, what condition is sufficient cause for people to form a new government? (see image)
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In 1970 U.S. Congress created this to help enforce laws to clean up the nation’s air, soil, and water.
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What did Nixon do during Watergate that was illegal?
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What role did the Supreme Court play during the civil rights movement?
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What was the main cause of the gas shortage in the United Sates in 1973?
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What did CORE—Congress of Racial Equality— do in the south to contribute to the Civil Rights Movement?
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Which legislative action during the administration of Franklin Roosevelt, had the greatest effect on resolving the problems of the economy and protecting the elderly from poverty?
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Which explains the growth of labor unions in the United States during the American Industrial Revolution?
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North Carolina became a model for racial cooperation based on the Supreme Court Case “Swan” in which
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How does the Plessy vs. Ferguson case compare to the Brown vs. Board of Ed case?
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According to the passage, the principal goal of President Truman in issuing this executive order was to (see image)
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Based on the photo (see image) ... Conditions such as the one shown in the photograph were legally ended by the
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Which action did President Dwight D. Eisenhower take to enforce this Supreme Court decision? (see image)
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Which type of action against unjust laws is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. supporting in this passage?
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Cesar Chavez created the United Farm Workers Organization Committee (UFWOC) in 1966 primarily to
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River systems were important to the development of the United States because they
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Each of these headlines illustrates the use of (see image)
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The “dream deferred” in this poem refers to the hopes African Americans had for (see image)
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Base your answer on the excerpt and on your knowledge of social studies. The presence of Mr. Jim Crow “In all public places” was legally ended by the (see image)
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The battles of Saratoga, Gettysburg, and Normandy were similar in that all three
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In the American Revolution and in the Vietnam War, guerrilla warfare tactics favored:
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In 1848, when European powers threatened to become involved in a domestic dispute in Mexico, President James Polk warned them not to interfere. On which of the following documents did he base his warning?
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Which of the following best describes the form of government of the United States?
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Which of the following best explains why the United States Senate rejected American participation in the League of Nations after World War I?
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Which of the following is the main reason President Harry Truman gave for ordering an atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima?
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In 1937, after four years of steady growth, economic activity in the United States declined 27 percent. Which of the following terms best describes the decline in the economy?
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How did the Marshall Plan contribute to the U.S. policy of containment of communism?
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How did the Treaty of Versailles at the end of WW 1 help destroy the German economy?
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Which of the following trends during the 1920s set the stage for the Great Depression?
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Why did so many banks fall during the Great Depression?
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The law aimed to eliminate what Americans regarded as the two weaknesses of the Native American life: the lack of private property and the nomadic tradition ?
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Which of these factors contributed to the 19th-century women’s suffrage movement?
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What was one direct result of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906?
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What can you conclude about the relationship between government and big business before the Progressive Era began?
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Why did Roosevelt think building the Panama canal would benefit the United States?
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Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy became known as the Big Stick Policy, which is shown in the political cartoon to the right. What was the objective of this policy? (see image)
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Prior to WW1, America adopted an isolationist policy. What does this mean?
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Which of the following was a major effect of the Industrial Revolution?
