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| Johnathan Edwards and Roger Whitfield |
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| Leaders of the Great Awakening |
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| What author and book did Thomas Jefferson most use when creating the Declaration of Independance? |
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| John Locke's Social Contract |
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| How did slautary neglect begin the colonists desire for independance? |
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| They had created their own governments |
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| Virginia's House of Burgesses, Mayflower compact, New England Town Meetings |
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| examples of representative governments or self-governments |
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| What group was created so that the colonies could meet and discuss their grievances with Britian? |
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| Committees of Correspondance |
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| Revolutionary leader of the Sons of Liberty; antifederalist |
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| Cofounder of Hull House, Nobel Peace Prize winner 1931 |
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| Who invented the telephone in 1876? |
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| Extreme abolitionist who led the Pottawotamie Massacre and raided Harper's Ferry |
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| "Cross of Gold Speech" and opposed evolution at Scopes trial. Free silver. |
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| Vice-President and Senator from SC. Nullification theory |
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| What man lead the SNCC and coined the term "Black Power?" |
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| What wealthy man pioneered the steel industry while using a system of vertical integration? |
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| Formed the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee in 1962 |
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| President of the Confederate States of America |
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| What five-time presidential candidate founded the Socialist Party of America? |
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| What black leader founded the NAACP? |
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| Enlightenment thinker; Revolutionary leader; Printer; Attended the Continental Congress |
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| Wrote "The Feminine Mystique"; National Organization for Women |
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| British monarch during the American Revolution |
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| Author of the Federalist Papers and the first secretary of the Treasury |
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| Civil Rights leader; I Have a Dream Speech; Nobel Peace Prize 1964 |
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| Leading Confederate General; Army of Northern Virginia |
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| US Pacific general during WW2 and the Korean War |
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| African Black Muslim leader and separatist |
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| What is the time period before the Civil War called? |
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| NAACP attorney in Brown vs. Board of Education; first Black Supreme Court Justice |
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| Republican Senator from Wisconson; anti-Communist activist; Red Scare |
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| What German city was divided by a wall during the Cold War? |
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| What political cartoonist exploited the corruption of the Tweed Ring in New York |
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| First woman Supreme Court Justice |
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| Standard Oil Company; horizontal integration; philanthropist |
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| Wife of FDR and advocate of social causes |
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| What was the name of the Black militant group that combatted police brutality and provided services in the ghetto? |
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| Italian Immigrants and anarchists who were executed during the Red Scare |
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| What Muckraker wrote "The Jungle" which publicized abuses in the meat-packing industry? |
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| Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1852? |
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| Alabama governor; 1968 presidential election candidate; opposed to integration of Blacks |
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| What was the nickname that Kansas deserved because of its violence over the slavery issue? |
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| Liberal chief justice of the Supreme Court from 1953-1969; individual rights |
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| Five Freedoms- separation of church and state; freedom of speech, press, and assembly; right to petition government |
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| WHat was the time period called after WWII when the United States and the USSR were competing for dominance in the world? |
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| Rights of the People- rights stated in the Constitution are not the only rights that people have |
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| Powers not delegated to the federal government nor denied to the states by the Consitution are reserved to the states or the people |
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| Civil Rights- states may not abridge the rights of citizens-equal protection of the law |
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| Voting Priviliges cannot be denied on the basis of race |
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| Established the principle of Judicial Review |
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| The exchange of plants, animals and disease between the Americas and Europe after Columbus's voyage |
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| What was the US's foreign policy during the Cold War? |
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| Recognized the Cherokee tribe as a political entity |
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| Ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the US; declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional |
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| What was the WWII allied invasion of occupied France called? |
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| The Battle of Normandy or D-Day |
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| Established the principle of "separate but equal" |
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| Ruled that segregated schools are inherently unequal |
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| Brown v. Board of Education |
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| Police required to inform all criminal suspects of their constitutional rights |
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| racial separation based on tradition rather than law |
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| Signed by many Pilgrims on their way to the New World; agreed to create a new government and abide by its laws |
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| Influential pamphlet written by Thomas Paine; urged Americans to declare independence |
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| The theory that if one Southeast Asian country fell, the others would quickly fall with it. |
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| Series of essays about the nature of government by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison |
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| What "bird" described people who were against the Vietnam War? |
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| Presidential message that called for non-intervention by European powers in Latin America |
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| Militant Newspaper by William Lloyd Garrison; antislavery |
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| What happened at the same time as the Great Depression that left mid-western farmers with useless, dry, soil-less land? |
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| What executive order given by Lincoln freed all the slaves in the Confederacy? |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| WHat term mean 'the freeing of slaves' |
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| Addendum to the Monroe Doctrine; stated that US would use force to protect its interests in Latin America |
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| Which government branch enforces the law? |
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| Telegram from Germany to Mexico offering help in recovering territory in the US Southwest |
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| US would support free people resisting takeover from Communist hostiles |
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| What New Deal program ensured federal protection of the money that people deposited into banks? |
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| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) |
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| Secretary of state's plan to provide aid to help Europe rebuild after WW2 |
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| British agreed to leave the forts they occupied on the US frontier |
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| What early political party supported the Constitution and a strong national government |
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| Spain allowed Americans to travel freely among the Mississippi River and use the port of New Orleans |
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| What is the name used for religious people who believe in the literal translation of the Bible? |
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| Louisiana territory that doubled the size of the US; given by France |
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| Ended the war with Mexico; Mexican Cession |
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| Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo |
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| Ended WW1; League of Nations |
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| Mutual defense pact among US, Canada, and ten Western European allies |
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| What did the Gentlemen's Agreement limit? |
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| Japanese immigration to America |
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| Divided Vietnam among the 17th Parallel into communist North and anticommunist South |
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| What Federal law gave WWII war veterens low interst home loans and low cost college educations? |
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| President Carter helped negotiate Middle East peace agreements between Jorda, Egypt, and Israel |
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| US, Canada, and Mexico drop all trade barriers |
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| What did farmers and the Populist Party want to be included into teh gold standard to help the problem of deflation? |
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| Established a government fot the Northwest Territory and described rules that a territory would follow in order to become a state |
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| Northwest Ordinance (1787) |
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| What term is used to describe the mass movement of African Americans to Northern cities in teh early 20th century? |
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| Restricted the rights of immigrants and freedoms of speech and the press |
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| Preserved balance in Congress between slave and free states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state |
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| Indians east of the Mississippi River were to be moved to the west |
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| What was President Johnson's domestic policy called, which focused on racial equality and poverty? |
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| Repealed Missouri Compromise and allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether they would allow slavery; popular sovereignty |
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| What was the term used for a supporter of US involvement in Vietnam? |
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| Fugitive slaves had to be returned to their owners; Compromise of 1850 |
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| Offered 100 acres of land free to anyone who would farm it for five years |
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| Attempt by government to regulate corporations and monopolies |
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| What did HUAC (House of Un-American Activites) investigate? |
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| Welfare program; retirement and unemployment insurance |
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| Education benefits, unemployment insurance, low-interst loans |
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| What act forced Native Americans east of the Mississippi River to move west? |
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| Indian Removal Act (1830) |
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| Prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, or gender |
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| Under what President was the Indian Removal Act passed? |
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| Increase in prices and decrease in purchasing power are effects of what economic term? |
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| What was America's foreign policy after WWI? |
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| What "laws" separated blacks and whites in the South? |
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| Which branch of the government interprets laws and the Constitution? |
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| The white supremacist group who rose during Reconstruction and focused on the hatred of immigrants, Catholics and Blacks. |
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| Which branch of the government makes the laws |
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| What term is used to describe the distribution of government power between the Federal, state and local levels of government |
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| What did a Loyalist Support during the American Revolution? |
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| Teh 19th Century belief that America must span from Atlantic to Pacific Oceans |
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| What term was named after a Senator in the 1950's who scared America into thinking that the governemnt and country were being overrun by Communists? |
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| What Black Association was created by W.E.B DuBois? |
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| what term describes favoring the interests of native-born Americans over those of immigrants? |
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| What was America's foreign policy before WWI? |
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| What era did the New Deal try to fix? |
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| What was JFK's Domestic Policy called? |
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| What was JFK's Domestic Policy called? |
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| Who was contained in internment camps on the West coast during WWII? |
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| What term describes a state's refusal to follow a federal law? |
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Nullification
hint: it is unconstitutional and never worked :) |
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| What policy opened up American trade with China? |
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| What waterway opened up in 1914 and connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans |
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| What movement was after the Industrial Revolution focused on quality of life as well as an end to politcal and buisness corruption? |
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| What political party controlled Reconstruction? |
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| What was the period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War Called? |
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| What term was used to describe the fear of a communist takeover in the 1920's which focused on the wave of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe? |
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| Where did most of teh immigrants come from during the "first wave" of immigration? |
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| Western and Northern Europe (Irish and Germans) |
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| Term used of England relaxed policies concerning it's american policies in return for their loyalty. |
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| 1925 trial over the teaching of evolution in the public schools? |
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| what term is used for a region placing its own interest over national interests? |
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| Jane Addams created the first one, where immigrants could go to find education, services and support. |
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| What did most blacks and poor farmers do to make a living after the Civil War? |
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| boycotts, sit ins and marchesare all types of what? |
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| What New Deal program provides support to the retires, disabled, unemployed and poor mothers and children |
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| What ws Richard Nixon's plan to take America out of Vietnam called? |
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| What ws Richard Nixon's plan to take America out of Vietnam called? |
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| What agreement was created between Israel and Egypt, with the help of President Carter? |
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| How was Malcom X different from Martin Luther King Jr.? |
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| Malcolm X beleived that violence was necessary for blacks to gain equality |
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| What previous court case did Brown v. Board of Education overturn |
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| What was the result of the Montgomery Bus Boycott? |
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| Which 1960's president passed the Civil Rights Act? |
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| What president was best known for slowing down segregation, helping the environment and vietnamization? |
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| Who wrote the Feminine Mystique? |
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| What aggreement split Vietnam along the 17th parallel? |
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