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The United Kingdom has had a Prime Minister since 1721, but at what point did the PM begin to overtake the monarch in political power?	359
How long did Christianity exist as a "sect" of Judaism before Judean and Roman society began considering it a separate entity?	49
Jim Crow laws often disenfranchised poor white voters as a byproduct of their intended effects. How did these poor whites view the status quo? Were there any movements among them for equal rights? How did any such movements regard equally disenfranchised black people?	8
James K. Polk today is a rather obscure president whom most Americans couldn't tell much about. However, Polk was a very influential politician, one of the most significant before the Civil War. How did Polk become such an obscure figure and at what point did people begin to forget him?	6
I am traveling across the Atlantic (Britain to the US) by passenger ship during World War I. What are the odds my ship gets attacked by a German U-Boat?	5
What was the role of Great Britain's other North American colonies in the American Revolutionary War?	4
Modern Biblical scholars tend to examine the historical context of the Bible and don't treat it as a totally infallible text. How did this method of study become commonplace and accepted instead of condemned as heresy?	4
From the Civil War until fairly recently, the South was seen as a solidly Democratic voting bloc. Although the South began to trend toward the Republicans in 1964, how long did it take for political campaigns to acknowledge that the South was no longer a reliably Democratic region?	3
Why was communism so popular in th 20th century after its failures were made clear in the Soviet Union?	2
How did Native Americans originally living in Oklahoma (or elsewhere) react to the arrival of new tribes during forced relocations?	1

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