an arrangement of machines, tools, and workers in which a product is assembled by having each perform a specific, successive operation on an incomplete unit as it passes by in a series of stages organized in a direct line.
What is an Assembly Line
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627,000 men died.... more died from sickness than from the battle.
How many men died as a result of the Civil War?
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Statements of post-war goals for establishing world peace
The Fourteen Points and the Atlantic Charter were both
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Rapid development of suburbs
World War Two: Question 1 of 73
A major cause of the growth of state and Federal highway systems after World War II was the
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Theodore Roosevelt
What former president was on an African hunting trip when his enemy J. P. Morgan quipped: "Let every lion do his duty"?
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Transcontinental railroad
How did food and goods get across the country in 1863?
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Jefferson Davis was elected President of the Confederate States on Feb 9th, 1861.
What happened on Feb 9th 1861?
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Constitutional protections of liberty are not absolute.
“The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic."
-Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
Which interpretation of the Bill of Rights does this statement illustrate?
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A shortage of traditional labor created new opportunities in the workplace
During World War II, women and minorities made economic gains mainly because
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Richard Nixon
What president opined: "Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out"?
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The Wright Brothers
Who made the first airplane?
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At the First Battle of Bull Run the Union army was known as The Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate army was known as The Army of the Potomac.
What was the Union Army called at the First Battle of Bull Run? and the Confederate Army?
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The warring powers interfered with the United States right to freedom of the seas
From 1914 to 1916, as World War I raged in Europe, Americans were not able to remain neutral in thought as well as action mainly because
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Racial prejudice
A major cause of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was
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One
How many U.S. states are named after a president?
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The Duryea Brothers
Who made the first car?
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The 13th Amendment
Which Amendment to the Constitution provided for the abolition of slavery?
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prevent international tensions from leading to war
President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points were intended to
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Internment of Japanese Americans
A violation of civil rights that occurred in the United States during World War II was the
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Who was the first president to utter "We shall overcome" before a joint session of Congress?
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1864
When was the first car made?
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Robert E. Lee
Who spent his first 13 months in Confederate uniform without coming under fire or taking part in a general engagement?
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Urging the Allies to adopt the Fourteen Points
"We are to be an instrument in the hands of God to see that liberty is made secure for mankind."
-President Woodrow Wilson
President Wilson tried to carry out the idea expressed in this quotation by
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Help Allied nations without the United States entering the war
The Lend-Lease Act and the Destroyers-for-Bases deal were adopted prior to World War II primarily because these actions would