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A Quiz to See if U.S. Schools Taught You State Propaganda

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46. Is the United States a democracy, republic, communist collective, dictatorship, or oligarchy?

47. Which nations are the world's top weapons exporters?

48. Name at least three recent wars in which weapons from the same nation were used on both sides.

49. Explain, by comparison to Canada, how the United States benefitted from its revolution against England.

50. How did the U.S. revolution benefit Native Americans, farmers, enslaved people, and women?

51. Were there more or fewer popular rebellions in the United States after the revolution?

52. What nation did Congress members predict would welcome invaders as liberators in 1812?

53. Did it?

54. What nation did the United States steal the northern half of in the 1840s through a bloody war despite that nation's willingness to negotiate a nonviolent sale of the land?

55. What was the one condition the United States insisted on in acquiring that land?

56. What President lied to start that war?

57. What Congressman denounced his lies?

58. What hero of that war and future president denounced the war as an immoral outrage?

59. What percentage of nations that abolished slavery fought civil wars before doing so?

60. Why did Mississippi say it was seceding from the United States?

61. How was slavery ended in Washington DC?

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