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Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison disagreed vehemently over abolitionist principles and strategies. Did these public debates have any practical significance, or were they just academic? Who was ultimately proven correct?	5
There were a number of African-Americans who were financially successful in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Did any succeed at establishing intergenerational wealth/a class of African-American elites?	4
During pre-modern plagues, how did families keep from starving when their main food/financial providers had died or were too sick to work?	4
How did chicken become the staple meat in the US when pork seems to be the staple meat in much of Europe?	3
Many people think climate change will essentially destroy the Earth in a few decades. Before global warming was widely known, people had similar fears about overpopulation & nukes. But before WWII, was there anything? Has there always been popular fear of some sort of quasi-imminent apocalypse?	3
How did seatbelt laws get passed, and become widely accepted by the American public without massive backlash?	3
The US Army stamped out Native American resistance in the late 19th century, often with extreme cruelty. Thousands of Native Americans went on to serve in the US Army in WWII. Were the remaining survivors of the American Indian Wars bothered by this?	2
How did Indian nationalist movements during the 19th and 20th centuries address the fact that many of India's most powerful and culturally important pre-Raj empires were Muslim, and often founded by foreign invaders? Did they view them as truly Indian, or as just earlier alien occupiers?	2
After German unification, the East German military was absorbed into the West German military. How did this work? Were there any difficulties when soldiers who were trained mainly to fight each other began serving together?	1
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater debuted in 1999. Why was Tony Hawk the first (and probably still the only) skateboarder to break through to mainstream culture?	1

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