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What are some questions that I could ask in an interview with someone [not white], regarding the Separate Amenities Act during apartheid?

How did the Bantu Education Act affect people's lives?

What were the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?  

How does the saying "ang hindi lumingon sa pinanggalingan ay hindi makakarating sa paroroonan" relate to history?

What kind of jobs did people have in New York during the colonial times? What kind of stuff did they make out of fur?

How did people respond to the group areas act of 1950?

Why is the Elizabethan age called the Golden Age of England?

What is the history of physical education in Greece?

Code Of Hammurabi Laws Compared To Today's Laws

What are the advantages and disadvantages of freedom?

What are the differences between the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire? 

Compare and contrast the Assyrian and Persian empires.

What are the similarities and differences between the caste system in India and the class system of the contemporary United States?

What was Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy? 

What are some similarities between hunting and gathering societies and agricultural societies?

Was it a wise idea for the framers of the Constitution to design the Senate to filter the output of the sometimes hasty House?

Why is the Battle of Saratoga considered a turning point in the American Revolution?

What role did Teddy Roosevelt play in the Spanish-American War?  

What are the similarities and differences between school during the colonial period and modern schooling, and what role did religion play in school during the colonial period?

How were the Indian Ocean routes and Silk routes similar? How were they different?

According to Pericles, what were the characteristics of Athenian democracy?

How could the Continental Congress approve the Declaration of Independence, a document of freedom, when so many of its members owned slaves?  

Explain why the Renaissance began in Italy.

What made Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson Progressive presidents, and what were their most significant pieces of legislation?

How did the founding fathers feel about political parties?

What were Andrew Jackson’s major beliefs regarding democracy, the presidency, and the proper role of government in the nation’s economy? Refer to chapter 10 of volume 1 of A Narrative History by Emory Shi.

What are some foreign and domestic issues that President Washington faced during his presidency?

Evaluate the extent to which women exercised power and influence within various societies in Afro-Eurasia during the period c.1200–c.1450

What are two differences between the Native peoples of North and South America?

What were some innovative ways Americans fought disease during the revolution?

The Articles of Confederation created what type of system of government?

What are the similarities and differences between the Ancient Greek government and the modern United States government?

Who can be said to have triumphed in the aftermath of 1968, and what did that mean for the reshaping of America's two major political parties?

What does Hammurabi's Code reveal about Babylonian society?

Why was Hitler jailed in 1923–1924, how long was his sentence, how long did he serve, and what book did he write during this time?

What were the reasons why Germany annexed Cameroon?

What made Theodore Roosevelt a Progressive president? Compare his actions to the presidents before him.

What are the economic factors which led to the scramble for Cameroon?

Compare and contrast Ghana and Mali. In what ways were the two kingdoms similar? How were they different?

Why Did Anti Federalists Favor A Bill Of Rights?

What impact did the book The Shame of the Cities have on America?

Where did Christopher Columbus land in the United States ?

Who started the Vietnam war? and How did it start?

What was the wheel of fortune in Elizabethan times?

Why Did The Byzantine Empire Fall

Were President Franklin Roosevelt and President Theodore Roosevelt related?

What were the weaknesses of Ancient Athens?            

How did the US Constitution fix the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?

What do the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions have in common? What are some differences between them?  

Are the Sumerians and the Assyrians the same?