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Which term refers to "Jazz Age" women of the 1920s?
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Which quotation accurately describes Calvin Coolidge's philosophy against active government?Responses "I pledge you, I pledge
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Which attorney general under President Wilson led a witch-hunt to round up communists in the 1920s?
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Which phrase describes a method used to gain publicity for the 19th Amendment?Responses burning down polling stations to protest
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Who pioneered animated movies with his short feature, Steamboat Willie, in 1928?Responses
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Which foreign dictator did this American think had good ideas?Responses Joseph Stalin—Charles Lindbergh Joseph
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hich action did President Herbert Hoover believe the government should take?Responses not provide seven-course dinners in the
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Which statements describe the Bonus March?Choose all answer that are correct? Responses was made up of World War I veterans and
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What transformation takes the graph of function f to the graph of function g?Responses a horizontal compression by a factor of
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Is this statement true or false?Most Americans at the time thought Coolidge was a splendid president. Responses
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Is this paragraph true or false?President Harding appointed unqualified friends to government offices and failed to exercise his
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Is this statement true or false?If Congress passed a law making it a crime to write letters criticizing the government, it would
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Is this statement true or false?Attorney General Palmer violated Constitutional rights by letting his agents put 5,000 people in
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How did Russia become a communist country?Responses During the World War I, Germany took control of Russia and made it a
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What were Americans afraid of during the Red Scare?Responses a measles epidemic a measles epidemic a Russian attack a Russian
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What were Americans afraid of during the Red Scare?
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Who ran as a candidate of the Bull Moose Party in 1912 against Republican William Howard Taft and Democrat Woodrow Wilson?
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Which statement describes an accomplishment of President Theodore Roosevelt?Responses He signed an agreement with John D.
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Which statement describes a major reason that America entered World War Ion the Allied side?Responses President Wilson thought a
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Which statement describes a result of the Spanish-American War?Responses Spain retained all of its possessions and regained its
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The signers of the peace treaty supported the creation of the League of Nations.What happened that prevented the United States
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What prompted the United States to join the fighting in World War I?Responses the assassination of an archduke the assassination
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In a speech before Congress, Woodrow Wilson announced that the United States was joining the Allies in Europe in order to make
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Which statement is the most accurate about United States' involvement in World War I?Responses The United States stayed out of
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Which statement best describes the effect of this story's literary point of view?Responses The third-person omniscient point of
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Part AThis story is written from Justine’s perspective, and the reader sees what is important to her. How do Justine’s
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A Huge MistakeI finally had it! I had the golden ticket in my hand! Okay, it wasn’t really golden—it was actually blue, and
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excerpt from "A Huge Mistake"The problem was that I couldn’t wait the decades it would take until I earned enough for a car as
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Which word best characterizes Ezra?Responses Careful Careful, Kindhearted Kindhearted, Mean Mean, Impatient
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Everyone on the team noticed it. Malik had been gradually limping more and more as the meet progressed. He was 18 years old and
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What is the meaning of the word emphasized as it is used in this sentence from paragraph 1?He recognized that his stroke was
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excerpt from "A Relay Race to Remember"As the relay teams collected their swim caps and goggles and began to head to the
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Which description best explains how the complicating incident functions in this passage?Responses It introduces the passage's
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Which sentence combines these two sentences through the use of an appositive?Dorothy is a colonel in the U.S. Army. Dorothy has
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Which underlined phrase is an adjective phrase?Responses The kitten on our doorstep was meowing loudly, as if it were hungry.
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What is the function of the noun phrase "one of Mark Twain’s most famous books" in this sentence?The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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How do Tessa and Varick interact in the scene in paragraph 4?Responses Varick gives Tessa advice, which she rejects because it
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Part ARead paragraph 6. Which change in Tessa demonstrates a theme of this narrative? Responses Tessa would like to hear
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Which statement best describes the type of conflict Malik overcomes?Responses Malik vs. technology: He must learn how to use
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Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this story.What is the effect of the author's choice to use the
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Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this story.Which quotation from the story "Hamadi" by Naomi Shahib
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What can people living in the United States' outlying areas usually do?Choose all answers that are correct. Responses elect
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Which phrases describe ways the United States acquired outlying areas?Choose all answers that are correct. Responses purchasing
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Which phrase tells how the Hawaiian culture was characterized for centuries before Europeans and Americans came to the Hawaiian
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Which changes took place in the United States in the late 1800s?Choose all answers that are correct. Responses Factories were
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Which description fits the terms primary, initiative, and referendum?Responses Jim Crow laws designed by southern whites to keep
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One Progressive reform was the direct primary. In a direct primary, who chooses the candidates for each political party?Response
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Which issues did the Progressive movement of the early twentieth century address?Responses conservation, child labor, racial
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Which groups shared in the prosperity of the late 1800s?Choose all answers that are correct. Responses slum dwellers slum
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Which statements are accurate descriptions of the Haymarket Square incident?Choose all answers that are correct. Responses A
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Most of New York state's population lives in the southeast.Which term is used for this information? Responses population growth
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Why is a free press important in a democracy?Responses Governments need a way to communicate with the people. Governments need a
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Which did conservationists promote?Responses not using public lands at all not using public lands at all finding and identifying
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What is Jane Addams known for?Responses helping immigrants and the poor at Hull House helping immigrants and the poor at Hull
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What is the purpose of the National Park System?Responses to establish green spaces in cities and towns to establish green
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Which conclusion can be drawn from this graph?Responses About 1,615,000 people living in the United States in 1910 were born in
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Which quote best expresses John Muir’s philosophy?Responses "Congress shall make no laws abridging the freedom of speech and
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Which goal was John Muir most interested in?Responses adequate medical care for miners adequate medical care for miners sanitary
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Which was a result of journalist Ida Tarbell's exposé?Responses The Standard Oil Company's trust was dissolved by the Supreme
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Which subject would a muckraker be most likely to write about?Responses the beauty of the Grand Canyon the beauty of the Grand
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Which social activist worked tirelessly for child labor reform and said, "I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser"?Responses
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Why did the public fear early unions?Responses Workers made unreasonable demands. Workers made unreasonable demands. The public
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Which was a goal of Samuel Gompers, but not of socialists?Responses safe working conditions in America's factories and mines
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Which term refers to a person who favors government control of businesses that affect most citizens, such as railroads,
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Why did unions have more power than individual workers to improve conditions?Responses Unions had the approval of the courts and
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Which describes the primary goal of the first labor unions?Responses settling disputes between striking workers and business
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What makes some collisions elastic and others inelastic?Responses If there is no loss of kinetic energy in the collision, it is
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A baseball is traveling (+20 m/s) and is hit by a bat. It leaves the bat traveling (−30 m/s).What is the change in the
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When a bat hits a ball, what is the impulse?Responses the mass multiplied by the force the mass multiplied by the force, the
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Which sentence is a correct statement of Newton's second law?Responses Every mass in the universe is attracted to every other
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Which statement best illustrates the role that gravity played in the formation of the solar system?Responses Gravity caused the
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What is the force that every mass exerts on every other mass?Responses weight weight pull pull matter matter gravity gravity
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A tight rope walker who does not want to change his position will want the forces acting on him to be what?Responses large large
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An object is seen to either speed up, slow down, or change direction.What are these behaviors caused by? Responses stable
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An object is seen to either speed up, slow down, or change direction.What are these behaviors caused by?
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According to Newton’s second law of motion, when an object is acted on by an unbalanced force, how will that object respond?Re
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A football player kicks a ball with a mass of 0.42 kg. The average acceleration of the football was 14.8 m/s².How much force
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There are four springs stretched by the same mass. Spring A stretches 25 cm. Spring B stretches 10 cm. Spring C stretches 100
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There are four springs stretched by the same mass. Spring A stretches 25 cm. Spring B stretches 10 cm. Spring C stretches 100
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In Hooke's law, Fspring=kΔx, what does the Fspring stand for?Responses the elastic constant, a number that tells the relative
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In Hooke's law, Fspring=kΔx, what does the k stand for?Responses the amount of force acting on the spring the amount of force
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How can you tell if an object has elastic properties?Responses If two people pull on it in opposite directions, it stretches.
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How is momentum conserved when the big rolling ball hits the smaller rolling ball?Responses Momentum is not conserved when the
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How is momentum conserved in a Newton's cradle when one steel ball hits the other?Responses Both balls have momentum to start,
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What makes some collisions elastic and others inelastic?Responses If the collision involves sticking together, it is elastic. If
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When a bullet is fired from a gun, what is true about the momentum?Responses The bullet and gun have equal momenta in opposite
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What does the law of the conservation of momentum state?Responses When two objects collide, they will each keep their initial
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What should a free-body diagram look like for a skydiver that is still speeding up as he falls?Responses There is an arrow up
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What forces are present in this situation?An elevator is rising at a constant speed; the elevator is the object in this
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The object in this diagram has a mass of 4 kg.According to this diagram, what is the acceleration of this object? Responses 0
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Which statement is a correct statement of Newton's second law?Responses Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Every
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Which statement did Kepler’s investigations of the movement of the planets explain?Responses Jupiter has more moons than
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What should be done in order to increase the gravitational force between two objects?Responses Increase the distance between the
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What did Isaac Newton’s investigations of gravity explain?Responses The sun is more massive than earth. The sun is more
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An object is transported to three different planets in the solar system.Which statement is true about that object? Responses The
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What is the force that every mass exerts on every other mass called?Responses gravity gravity matter matter weight weight pull
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When an object moves, stops moving, changes speed, or changes direction, how do scientists describe that condition?Responses a
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What two aspects of a force do scientists measure?Responses magnitude and direction magnitude and direction position and size
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A student is riding on a school bus and suddenly get thrown forward.What did the bus just do? Responses The bus is going forward
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A basketball has a mass of 1 kg and is traveling 12 m/s.What would happen to the velocity if the momentum of the basketball were
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