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Why did Lincoln's call for troops after the attack on Ft. Sumter increase secessionist sentiment in Virginia? Why didn't they blame the South?
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How long have criminal background checks been commonplace in the U.S.? Were national background checks done before digitization of records?
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Why did Jefferson blame the British for the international slave trade in the original draft of the Declaration of Independence? Also, why did the consensus on banning the international slave trade develop so quickly compared to the resistance to banning slavery?
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What is the earliest reference to Americans speaking with a distinct accent? What is the earliest reference to distinct regional accents within America?
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In the 14th century in Europe how did books by authors like Dante and Chaucer get disseminated? Public readings? Monks copy a book and it gets passed around?
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Why did the U.S. conduct nuclear weapons tests in the Marshall Islands? If the rationale was that the Marshall Islands are remote, why not do it in the open Pacific?
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How did the move of Southern politicians from the Democratic party to the Republican actually work? Was it mostly Democrats retiring and losing or party switching? To what extent did non-Southern Republicans court Southern Democrats?
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In parts of the world where malaria used to be endemic and has since been eliminated, was the local mosquito population destroyed for a period of time during malaria elimination?
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