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With the passage of the 1924 Immigration Act which very heavily tightened immigration to the US and pretty much ended what was (in large part) an open border policy with aggressive enforcement, what were the economic predictions of the act, and did they bear out?	11
What was the situation for Native Americans on the US-Texan-Mexican frontier area during the Texan Revolution and the war between Mexico and America?	11
JFK's Profiles in Courage details Edmund G. Ross as one senator who stood up for principle in voting against the removal of Johnson. However, the account has been criticized as leaving out the fact Ross was bribed. What was known about the bribery case, and was this largely forgotten by the 1950s?	10
Would it be accurate to describe Junipero Serra as the "Saint of Genocide"? The mission system destroyed native communities and lives, yet I've seen some people say the "actual" genocide occurred during and after the Gold Rush, or that the mission system changed after Serra's death.	10
What's the current historical consensus on how WWII started? How has that historiography changed over time, particularly with regard to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and the partition of Poland?	10
What was the popular view of Mussolini in WWIi amongst Americans?	10
What did Robert E. Lee think of the Confederate resolution to execute black troops and their white officers? What was his view of black troops in general, during and after the war?	10
What were Soviet plans for a potential nuclear attack on China in the Korean War? Would they have struck back with their own nukes at Korea / China, or invade Western Europe?	10
"The Comanche Empire" by Pekka Hämäläinen came out in 2008, "Empire of the Summer Moon" by S.C. Gwynne came out in 2010. In terms of popularity, the first has 1100 ratings on Goodreads, vs 38000 for the latter. Which book would one recommend for anyone interested in learning about Comanche history?	10
What was the experience of Irish in Britain during the Troubles? I know of the Guilford Four, but were Irish (or Northern Irish) people discriminated widely in Britain by the population and/or the state at the time because of the attacks by the IRA?	10

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