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• What was the "Beat Generation?"
  
• What did Malcolm X preach?
  
• What event cost Ford much support early in his presidency?
  
• What was the immediate effect of the Presidential election of 1860? Why did this occur?
  
• Question #b8cd3
  
• What was the First Crusade?
  
• What southern city did President Eisenhower send federal troops to enforce school integration in 1957?
  
• What did the Federal Reserve Act, signed into law in 1913 by President Wilson, accomplish?
  
• How did Gorbachev hope to restructure the Soviet economy through perestroika?
  
• What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
  
• Question #7b126
  
• What landmark Supreme Court case finally overturned the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson?
  
• How did the totalitarians of the 1930's lead to World War II?
  
• Question #e22be
  
• Why did many people in the United States and Europe held protests related to the Rosenbergs trial ?
  
• During the Gilded Age what were the businessmen who dominated industries and amassed huge personal fortunes called?
  
• What did the United States do as a result of the Roosevelt Corollary?
  
• What were some reforms during the Progressive Era and what were their goals?
  
• What is the term for the Soviet response to the Marshall Plan in which Russia said Eastern European countries could not accept aid from the United States?
  
• How did the Opium War affect China?
  
• How did Nixon and Kissinger reshape America's approach to foreign affairs?
  
• Question #f3866
  
• Question #86e3b
  
• What was the role of the US government in the banking industry at beginning of the Depression?
  
• What was the first war where American women could serve? When was this war?
  
• How was Carter's foreign policy different from that of Nixon's and Ford's?
  
• Why was the Reagan administration's sale of weapons to lran damaging for Ronald Reagan's image?
  
• What was one of the earliest attempts to put an end to trusts and monopolies?
  
• Question #f6ab5
  
• What was the counterculture?
  
• What led to the Los Angeles riots in 1992?
  
• What was the goal of the No Child Left Behind Act?
  
• What signaled economic weakness in the 1920s?
  
• What caused Pontiac's Rebellion?
  
• Why did the U.S. get labeled the “World’s police officer?”
  
• What happened to Vietnam during WWII?
  
• Question #5f883
  
• What ended the period of presidential reconstruction?
  
• What was the Dawes Act and why did it fail?
  
• What drug did the British sell in China?
  
• How did Mao transform the economy of China?
  
• During the Dust Bowl, farmers were forced to leave their homes. Where did they move to?
  
• Why did farmers in the late 1800s want inflation?
  
• Why is propaganda an important tool of totalitarian dictators?
  
• How did slave codes affected enslaved people?
  
• How does the baby boom illustrates a break from Depression Era American life?
  
• What was the last piece to complete manifest destiny and why did we need it ?
  
• Do you think President Roosevelt was right to take the nation to war against Japan?
  
• What were some issues Truman fought for?
  
• How did NATO respond to the process of ethnic cleansing?
  
• How did the Industrial Revolution lead to a revolution in transportation?
  
• What major Confederate cities were nearly burned to the ground late in the Civil War?
  
• What did Dred Scott base his claim for freedom on?
  
• How did the dictators of the early 20th century gain power?
  
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• Why was Bacon's Rebellion important?
  
• What started the financial crisis of 2008?
  
• By 1900, most historians agree the Western Frontier of America was closed. Can you explain three reasons why they have concluded this?
  
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• What impact do you think the name "Students for a Democratic Society" had on people?
  
• Who was responsible for the agricultural policies of the United States during World War I?
  
• What did the United States Treasury create when the Legal Tender Act was passed in 1862?
  
• What was the primary goal of the Emergency Quota Act of 1921?
  
• What happened to America in the 1920's?
  
• Which amendment gave African-Americans citizenship and equal protection under the law?
  
• What were Americans afraid of during the Red Scare of the 1950s?
  
• Question #82988
  
• Why was Andrew Johnson impeached?
  
• How did conservative beliefs affect Reagan's policies? How did they affect Bush's policies?
  
• What were the Navigation Acts?
  
• What is Romanticism?
  
• Why was 1968 a year of turmoil in US history?
  
• Question #43667
  
• What were the results of Mao Zedong's Great Forward and Cultural Revolution?
  
• Why did conservatives believe that economic pressures would help protect the environment better than government regulation?
  
• What was the U.S. response to the Soviet Union placing missiles in Cuba?
  
• How did Populists want the government to handle currency in the late 1800s?
  
• How were African-Americans treated as soldiers during the Civil War?
  
• What was the involvement of the United States in Latin America in the early 1900s?
  
• What method of protest did civil rights leaders use in Greensboro, N.C?
  
• What was a major cause of the Panic of 1819?
  
• What do the terms direct characterization and indirect characterization mean and how are they used in literature?
  
• What event allowed Lyndon Johnson to conduct the war in Vietnam?
  
• What was the containment policy?
  
• Why did the number of corporations grow dramatically after 1870?
  
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