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3 Study the table and answer the question that follows.

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4 Study the photograph and answer the question that follows.

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8 Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows.

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“Do Everything”

An all-round movement can only be carried forward by all-round advocates.... Our WCTU is a school .......... Here we try our wings that

... we may calmly take our places and prove to the world that what it needed most was two heads in counsel as well as “two beside the hearth.” When that day comes, the nation shall no longer miss as now the influence of half its wisdom, more than half its purity and nearly all its gentleness, in courts of justice and halls of legislation. Then shall one code of morals—and that the highest—govern both men and women; then shall the Sabbath be respected, the rights of the poor be recognized, the liquor traffic banished, and the home protected from all its foes.

— A Handbook for the World’s White Ribboners , 1895

9 Study the table and answer the question that follows.

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13 Which statement describes how the GI Bill affected the United States during the 1950s?

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In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson , the Supreme Court decided that the Equal Protection Clause allowed state governments to apply the “separate but equal” provision to public facilities.

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16 Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows.

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Evidence for “productivity miracles” arising from the computer and from information technology (IT) in general appears to be all around us... The New York Stock Exchange handles electronically a volume of transactions that was inconceivable in the pre-computer age. Businesses nowadays can compute and communicate far faster than they could, say, a decade or two ago.

— Alan S. Blinder and Richard E. Quant, “The Computer and the Economy,” The Atlantic , December 1997

20 Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows.

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In the opinion of the Government of the United States the coming of Chinese laborers to this country endangers the good order of certain localities.... Therefore, Be it enacted... That... the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States be... suspended....

—Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882

23 Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows.

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1. fault lines

2. earthquake alarm systems

3. the earth’s surface

4. highway systems

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New Orleans is surrounded by water—Lake Pontchartrain, the Mississippi River, and the nearby Gulf of Mexico. Resting an average of six feet (two meters) below 1 , the city’s safety has long depended on one of the world’s most extensive

— Brian Handwerk, National Geographic News, September 2, 2005

1. high tide

2. canal systems

3. sea level

4. levee systems

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KEY South Midwest Northeast West

Population

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30 Study the diagram and answer the question that follows.

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Decline in corporate capital

Increased protective tariffs

Collapse of the stock market

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32 Study the poster and answer the question that follows.

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