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During the 19th century, liberals began using what entity as the rallying cry of political transformation, an idea that celebrated the achievements and awakening of the common people and offered a sense of pride, belonging, and sacred purpose?

When the Germans invaded France in 1940, British and French resistance quickly collapsed, trapping hundreds of thousands of soldiers along the English Channel at towns like Dunkirk. What happened at Dunkirk?

The American war in what country threatened by Communist takeover led to a powerful anti-war movement in the late 1960s?

Why did Hitler rebuild the German military in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles, reoccupy the Rhineland, annex Austria, and push for the annexation of the Sudetenland?

llinois Democrat Stephen A. Douglas authored _______, which opened two new territories in the former Louisiana territory to the expansion of slavery.

Many Southern leaders proposed arming slaves and enlisting them in the Confederate army, especially near the end of the war.

T he majority of Southern farmers were:

Lynchings and other forms of mob violence against African-Americans occurred only in the South.

What was the purpose of the American Colonization Society?

What group of northerners often scapegoated free black laborers for their diminishing economic prospects and sought revenge through mob violence?