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In the film “Amadeus”, set in 1780s Vienna, attendees at a masquerade ball play Musical Chairs. When did the game of musical chairs first appear, & could you expect to find it played at an event like this in Vienna?

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Could it be argued that the restriction of colonial settlement on indigenous held land west of the Appalachians, & not the implementation of taxes on goods, was the primary cause of the American revolution?

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What exactly was “The Peyton Gang”?

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Why exactly did Davy Crockett oppose the Indian Removal Act?

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Historian Howard Zinn has been heavily criticized for portraying an highly inaccurate view of history motivated by political bias. Did, or does, similar criticism exist of other socialist/ communist historians who used “people’s history” such as EP Thompson, Christopher Hill, or Eric Hobsbawm?

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To what extent did Slavery exist on Long Island, NY?

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Were their any novels & or works of fiction published in North America prior to the works of James Fenimore Cooper?

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In the film “Amadeus”, set in 1780s Vienna, attendees at a masquerade ball play Musical Chairs. When did the game of musical chairs first appear, & could you expect to find it played at an event like this in Vienna?	1
Could it be argued that the restriction of colonial settlement on indigenous held land west of the Appalachians, & not the implementation of taxes on goods, was the primary cause of the American revolution?	1
What exactly was “The Peyton Gang”?	1
Why exactly did Davy Crockett oppose the Indian Removal Act?	1
Historian Howard Zinn has been heavily criticized for portraying an highly inaccurate view of history motivated by political bias. Did, or does, similar criticism exist of other socialist/ communist historians who used “people’s history” such as EP Thompson, Christopher Hill, or Eric Hobsbawm?	0
To what extent did Slavery exist on Long Island, NY?	0
Were their any novels & or works of fiction published in North America prior to the works of James Fenimore Cooper?	0