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What effect did Uncle Tom's cabin have public opinion

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Northerners, in general, became more opposed to slavery

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What was the effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin

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It further heightened tensions between the north and south

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How a Northerners felt towards the fugitive slave act of 1850

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"We don't respect this law, and we won't obey it"

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What led to the compromise of 1850

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Admitting California to the Union in 1850 gave Free states an advantage over slave states

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Why did conflict arise in 1848 in western territories over the issue of slavery

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The legality of slavery had to be decided in lands added from the Mexican Cession

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What is popular sovereignty

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The theory that the government is created by and subject to the will of the people

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What was one effect of the Dred Scott decision

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It was condemned by free African-Americans

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How did southerners feel towards Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Most southerners hated the book

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What was the Kansas-Nebraska act

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It allow the people of Kansas and Nebraska to vote on whether they wanted to have slavery there or not

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The book uncle Tom's cabin publised in 1852,

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Fueled anti-slavery arguments by depicting the harshness of slavery and it's destructive effect on African-American families

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What did the fugitive slave act establish

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It made it illegal to assist runaway slaves

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The policy popular sovereignty was not upheld by the Lecompton Constitution because

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It did not allow voters in Kansas to completely outlaw slavery

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Dred Scott Case

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The Supreme Court ruled that no African-American, whether Slave or free, could ever enjoy the rights of a US citizen

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How did African-Americans in the Union Army contribute to the war effort

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They fought in major battles by 1863

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Why did Lincoln handle the slavery issue cautiously at the beginning of the Civil War

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Because he wanted the border states to remain with the union

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Early Civil War battles showed

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The need for well-trained soldiers

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What was a successful strategy for winning the Civil War

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The union to control the Mississippi River

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How did slaves in itself contribute to the Union war effort

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They refused to work on plantations

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What was the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation

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It added the abolition of slavery in the south to the unions war goals

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What was the Norths one official at the start of the Civil War

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To keep the union together

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Who would most likely disapprove of the Emancipation Proclamation

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A Southern planter

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Why did small southern farmers resent the Confederacy's draft law

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Men who owned more than 15-20 slaves were exempt

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It was important for the north to keep control Fort Sumter because

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Losing it would be assigned that Lincoln would not protect federal property in the seceding states

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Nearly 180,000 African-Americans

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Served in the Union Army

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The union capital, Washington, would be lost to the Confederacy if this state seceded

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Maryland

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The worst conditions of the Civil War were found in

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The prisoner-of-war camps in both the north and the south

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In the north, men of fighting age could avoid military service by what means

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Paying for a substitute to take your place

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The unions plan for blocking all ports in the south was called

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The Anaconda plan

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Pres. Lincoln's call for Troops after the fall of Fort Sumter

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Resulted in four more southern states seceding

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The Emancipation Proclamation established that

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Slaves in states rebelling against the United States for free

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Draft exemptions for wealthy plantation owners who were slaveholders put the major burden for fighting the war for the confederacy on

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Poor farmers and working people

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The north had many advantages at the beginning of the Civil War except

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The south occupied more territory than the sou

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What did the Amnesty Act do

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Restored the vote to most white southerners

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What state laws on fairly used economic status to deny African-Americans the right to vote

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Poll taxes

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Congress rebelled against President Johnson's reconstruction plan because they thought

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It was too lenient

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14th amendment

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All persons born or naturalized in the United States, are citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

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With President Lincoln's reconstruction plan, southern states were allowed to join the union when

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10% of the states voting population swore loyalty to the nation

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Why were the black codes written

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To limit the freedom of former slaves

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In 1868 the house tried to impeach President Andrew Johnson because

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He had violated the Tenure of Office Act

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The 13th amendment

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Abolished slavery

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In 1896 the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" facilities were not in contradiction to the 14th amendment i

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Plessy v. Ferguson Case

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President Lincoln's offer of amnesty meant

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a full pardon to also Southerners who would end slavery and support the constitution

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The annexation of a country involves

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Ruling a foreign government and its people

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A group calling itself the Fists of Righteous Harmony attacked for missionaries and traders in 1900 in the

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Boxer Rebellion

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Roosevelt send the great White Fleet around the world in order to

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Remind the world of US military might

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One outcome of the Spanish-American war was that

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Spain ceded Puerto Rico and Guam to the United States

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What did Roosevelt mean when he told the world that he would support the Monroe doctrine

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That he would use US forces to protect American interests in the Western Hemisphere

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Why did European powers agreed to the open door policy for China that was suggested by the United State

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They feared the power of the United States

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Who won the battle against the mosquito in the Pembina Canal zone

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William Gorgas

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What did John Hay mean when he called the Spanish-American war "a splendid little war"

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The United States one a quick and relatively easy victory

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What happened in the Spanish-American war

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The United States directed Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines limited independence

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President Theodore Roosevelt's Big Stick Policy is most associated with which region

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Latin America

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The Roosevelt corollary was based on what earlier policy forbidding European colonization in the America

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the Monroe Doctrine

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The Teller amendment

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Stated that the United States would be an independent Cuba's government alone

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When Roosevelt issued the Roosevelt corollary the document he was amending was called

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The Monroe doctrine

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Of what importance was the open-door policy established by Secretary of State John Hay 1900

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It established new trade relations with China

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The Treaty of Versailles was

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a treaty signed with Germany that many Germans felt was a harsh peace

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What caused United States to join the allies fighting World War I

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The Germans use of unrestricted submarine warfare

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What United States government create the war industries Board

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To ensure that factories produce enough military supplies for the war

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Why was the Senate reluctant to approve the Treaty of Versailles

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Certain senators objected to the possibility of becoming involved in future European Wars

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Pres. Wilson's goal for the league of Nations was

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To protect the independence of all nations

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How did Germany's sinking of the Lusitania increase the risk of war with United States

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The deaths of many American passengers on the British **** outraged Pres. Wilson

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Which nation would have entered World War I if the Zimmerman plot had succeeded

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Mexico

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With which to countries Austria-Hungary formed the triple alliance

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Italy and Germany

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Trench warfare consisted of

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Having troops rushed across no-man's-land into enemy fire

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In 1917 in the Zimmerman note, Germany offered what to Mexico if it join the Central Powers

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The return of Mexican land held by the United States

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The frontline consisted of

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Hundreds of miles of barbed wired and land mines

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In general, the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles focused mainly on

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Punishing Germany

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The western front was characterized by

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Trench warfare that kept both sides in virtually the same position for four years

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Great Britain declared war on Germany because

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It invaded Belgium

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The triple Entente was formed in reaction to

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Germany's military buildup

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The proper term describing the US economy Parentheses stock market) After the depression

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Bear market

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Margin buying

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Paying 10% of the stocks value

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What summarizes the immediate cause of the stock market crash of 1929

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Investors who were unable to repay loans try to sell stocks

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By 1932 what did most Americans think of Pres. Hoover's efforts to end the depression

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He should have acted sooner than done more

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Five years prior to 1929, the stock market has been characterized by rising prices reading an enormous

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Bull market

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At the onset of the Great Depression the bonus army

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March on Washington DC demanding premature payment of their deferred world war one bonus which was to be paid to them in 1945

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Hoover's rugged individualism

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The idea that one has to work hard for what they earn

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What event is typically considered the first sign of the Great Depression

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The stock market crash of October 1929

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What did the Hawley-Smoot act of 1930 do

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Instituted high protective tariffs

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What is a "run" on the bank

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When a lot of people try to withdraw their money all at once and the bank does not have enough money to pay them

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An economic depression occurs when

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Wages and prices fall and unemployment rises

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Speculation

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Buying stocks and bonds on the chance of quick profit while ignoring the risks

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Herbert Hoover reacted to the depression of 1929 by

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Providing loans to industry to restart production and urging voluntary cooperation by business leaders to maintain production, employment, and investment

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Hoover reacted to the veteran's bonus March by

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Ordering the police and army to clear out the protesters

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How did employment conditions change for African-Americans during World War II

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Employers with government contracts could not discriminate when hiring

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What prompted FDR to call December 7, 1941, "a day which will live in infamy"

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the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

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In United States, which people were sent to relocation camps solely because of their ethnic background

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Japanese Americans

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How did the United States react to aggression overseas in the 1930s

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It adopted isolationist policies that avoided involvement

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What was the immediate result of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

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United States declared war on Japan

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How did the D-Day invasion of France affect the war in Europe

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It forced the Germans to split their armies between two different fronts

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What forced Japan to surrender to the allies in World War II

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The United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japanese cities

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a major cause of the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II was

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Racial prejudice

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The lend-lease act and the destroyers-for-bases deal were adopted prior to World War II be primarily because these actions would

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Hope I like nations without the United States entering the war

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Shortly after entering World War II the United States began the Manhattan project to

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Work on the development of an atomic bomb

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Who ordered the use of the atomic bomb to end the war with Japan

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Harry Truman

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In 1998 Congress voted to pay $20,000 to each of the surviving American of Japanese descent who were injured during World War II because

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Many Americans believe the internment was unjust and unnecessary

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During World War II many women experienced a change in role in that they

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Worked jobs formerly held by men

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The United States became involved in World War II primarily because

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Germany and Japan achieved important military successes in Europe and Asia

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On D-Day, the Allies landed at

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Normandy

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Jeannette Rankin

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First Woman in United States Congress

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Great Migration

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Movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920

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John Scopes "Monkey Trial"

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The trial of the high school biology teacher who was brought to trial for teaching evolution.

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Speakeasies

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Secret bars where alcohol could be purchased illegally

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