United States History
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This course provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the United States from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Students will explore key events, movements, and figures that have shaped the nation's social, political, economic, and cultural development. Topics include Indigenous societies, colonization, the American Revolution, the Constitution, westward expansion, the Civil War and Reconstruction, industrialization, wars and global involvement, civil rights movements, and contemporary issues. Through analysis of primary and secondary sources, students will develop critical thinking and historical inquiry skills, gaining a deeper understanding of the diverse narratives that comprise U.S. history.
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African American Odyssey The Combined Volume 5th Edition by Darlene Clark Hine
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Chapter 1: Africa
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Q1) The Portuguese referred to the area around the Congo River as ____________.
Answer: Angola
Q2) Why did it take until the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries for agriculture to replace hunting and gathering in parts of the forest region of West Africa?
A) No one settled in the region until that time.
B) The area was densely forested, and clearing it took a lot of effort.
C) The forest region was constantly threatened by disease and European warfare.
D) Forest region cultures were too dominated by the slave trade to develop agriculture.
Answer: B
Q3) What distinguished the Kingdom of Kongo from many other African kingdoms?
A) Mani Kongo Nzinga Knuwu began a tradition of welcoming early Portuguese missions.
B) The Kongo had no access to water travel.
C) The Kongo launched a holy war against Christian missionaries.
D) The Kongo maintained gender equality.
Answer: A
Q4) Most West Africans in the early sixteenth century made a living as ___________. Answer: farmers
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Chapter 2: Middle Passage
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Q1) What disease took the lives of most slaves while on board the slave ships?
A) typhoid
B) measles
C) smallpox
D) influenza
Answer: C
Q2) Which European country took the lead in exploration and colonization in the early 1400s?
A) Portugal
B) France
C) England
D) Switzerland
Answer: A
Q3) Enslaved people in the Americas became ____________, or personal property. When they became slaves they often lost many of their legal and customary rights.
Answer: chattel
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Chapter 3: Black People in Colonial North America
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Q1) What status did slaves have during approximately the first 20 years of Georgia's existence?
A) Slaves actually had about equal status to whites early in Georgia.
B) Slaves were treated far more harshly in Georgia than anywhere else, primarily because they outnumbered white settlers.
C) Slaves had an ambiguous status in Georgia. Historians cannot tell if they were considered slaves or indentured servants.
D) Slavery was outlawed in Georgia during the early years of the colony.
Answer: D
Q2) What African characteristics did second generation slaves lose in America?
A) language and ethnic identity
B) elements of family structure and concepts of self worth
C) second generation slaves generally adopted European practices and shunned all African ways
D) knowledge about agricultural production
Answer: A
Q3) Interracial sexual contact is also called ___________________.
Answer: miscegenation
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Chapter 4: Rising Expectations: African Americans and the
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Q1) In what way does the final version of the Declaration of Independence specifically mention slavery?
A) It denounces the slave trade and calls for an end to it.
B) It does not mention it at all.
C) It calls for an immediate end to all inequality between all men and women, including blacks.
D) It lists attempts to get slaves to revolt as one of the wrongs perpetrated by the British.
Q2) Who was Crispus Attucks?
A) one of the people who died after accosting British soldiers at the Boston Massacre
B) a famous slave who fought against the British in the battles of Lexington and Concord
C) a black man who was famous for his poetry during the American Revolution
D) a British loyalist, who fought alongside Benedict Arnold in several battles
Q3) Black Loyalists were most common and numerous in the colonies of ______________ and ______________ during the Revolution.
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Q1) The ___________________ of 1793, based on provisions in the Constitution, allowed masters to pursue escaped slaves across state lines, and find, capture and regain legal custody of them. It extended the power of slavery into the North.
Q2) What compromise was made over the Atlantic slave trade in the Constitution?
A) It was immediately abolished, although southerners were allowed to keep the slaves they had.
B) It was gradually abolished over the next twenty years.
C) No compromise was made over the Atlantic slave trade. The Constitution outlawed the domestic slave trade.
D) The Constitution limited the Atlantic slave trade to a small number of ships per year, until a constitutional amendment after the Civil War banned it altogether.
Q3) What right did Massachusetts, unique among the colonies, grant its black residents in 1783?
A) the right for free blacks to own property and be legally married
B) the right for black men, who paid taxes, to vote
C) the right for both black men and women to vote
D) the right to freedom of speech, even for slaves.
Q4) Which slave led a rebellion in Virginia in 1800?
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Chapter 6: Life in the Cotton Kingdom
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Q1) Which new states led the production of cotton, in what was called the "Black Belt"?
A) Virginia and North Carolina
B) Georgia and Tennessee
C) Tennessee and Kentucky
D) Alabama and Mississippi
Q2) Which of the following historians felt that slavery was a generally beneficial institution where slaveholders cared for happy slaves?
A) Kenneth Stampp
B) Stanley Elkins
C) Ulrich B. Phillips
D) Eugene Genovese
Q3) Most victims of the slave trade moved by foot, usually chained or roped together, in groups called _______________.
Q4) Which state had the largest slave population during the period 1820-1860?
A) Alabama
B) Mississippi
C) Louisiana
D) Virginia
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Chapter 7: Free Black People in Antebellum America
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Q1) What was not the result of inadequate public funding for black schools in the North?
A) Teaching suffered, since the pay was so low.
B) Many northerners, even those who favored abolition, thought that black students were poorer intellectually.
C) Some black leaders began to push for integrated schools in the North.
D) White teachers refused to teach there at all.
Q2) Which of the following statements about segregation is true?
A) The "better classes" of blacks were sometimes allowed into facilities reserved for whites.
B) Blacks faced many difficulties in trying to ride public transportation, although they often had no choice but to attempt to ride them.
C) Segregation was only apparent in the South.
D) Segregation of public facilities only began in the 20th century.
Q3) Which African-American singer earned the nickname "The Black Swan"?
Q4) What was the most famous bi-racial university during the antebellum period?
Q5) Who was the first African American to argue a case before the United States Supreme Court?
Q6) Which party developed to support Andrew Jackson and oppose John Quincy Adams?
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Chapter 8: Opposition to Slavery
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Q1) What beliefs did William Lloyd Garrison hold about slavery?
A) As a black man, he felt that slavery was not economically practical, and would die out of its own accord.
B) He thought that gradually abolishing slavery was immoral and impractical.
C) He thought that the highest position a black man should hold would be that of a slave.
D) He thought that slavery should not be extended to any new territory, but could continue where it was.
Q2) What was a difference between Gabriel's Rebellion and Vesey's Rebellion?
A) Only Gabriel's was influenced by the French and Haitian Revolutions.
B) Vesey included more elements of religion in his plot.
C) Vesey was a slave, and Gabriel was a free man.
D) Gabriel's Conspiracy was successful.
Q3) What important message did Charles Finney preach during the Second Great Awakening?
A) Blacks should be enslaved, because God wanted that.
B) Blacks should be able to vote and be the social equals of whites.
C) All men and women (no matter their race or class) could be saved by God.
D) Charles Finney was not allowed to preach because he was a black man.
Q4) Other than Africa, where did some African Americans choose to migrate?
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Chapter 9: Let Your Motto Be Resistance
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Q1) What was the eventual effect of the black nationalistic efforts?
A) They really had little effect, since the antislavery movement eventually achieved its goal.
B) They were very influential, and a significant number of African Americans migrated.
C) They rarely included the input of blacks, since whites controlled most of the organizations.
D) Black nationalism led to an increase in urban riots by blacks during the 1840s.
Q2) Why did Frederick Douglass become disillusioned with the AASS?
A) They refused to turn toward violence, which he began to advocate.
B) They seemed to value him more for being a fugitive slave than for his oratory and intelligence.
C) He was upset because the AASS refused to press for the abolition of slavery in foreign countries as well as the United States.
D) He felt that the organization should turn toward the example of France and Spain in abolishing slavery.
Q3) What was the usual destination of the slaves on the underground railroad?
Q4) What was the name of Frederick Douglass's influential newspaper?
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Q1) Which party formed in 1848 to prevent the expansion of slavery into the territories?
A) the Liberty Party
B) the Free-Soil Party
C) the Republican Party
D) the Democratic Party
Q2) What is a "nativist" movement?
A) another word for abolitionist
B) the same thing as racism
C) anti-immigrant sentiment
D) another word for patriotism, believing in your native country
Q3) Which of the following best characterizes Lincoln's ideas about race and slavery during the 1858 elections?
A) He was for the immediate abolition of slavery everywhere.
B) He thought that blacks and whites should have equal social and political rights.
C) He was a racist, and although he opposed slavery, he was not for the social equality of blacks and whites.
D) He was a racist and supported the institution of slavery at that time.
Q4) Which was the first state to secede?
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Chapter 11: Liberation: African Americans and the Civil War
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Q1) What is true about the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation issued on September 22, 1862?
A) It freed all the slaves in the United States.
B) It freed no one during that year at all.
C) It caused terror and fear of rebellion among white southerners.
D) It freed some slaves in 1862, right after it was issued, and the rest in 1863.
Q2) Which of the following slave states was never a member of the Confederacy?
A) Virginia
B) Delaware
C) Tennessee
D) North Carolina
Q3) How did the United States government resolve the issue of unequal pay for blacks?
A) They never did. Blacks were never granted equal pay with whites.
B) They granted equal pay toward the end of the war and allowed free blacks to receive back pay for service only before January 1, 1864.
C) They granted blacks double the pay of whites if they served in actual combat.
D) They court-martialed all the men protesting for insubordination and treason.
Q4) Which black unit was involved in the assault on Battery Wagner in July of 1863?
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Chapter 12: The Meaning of Freedom: the Promise of Reconstruction
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Q1) What did the Radical Republicans not do to Andrew Johnson in response to his vetoes of Senator Lyman Trumbull's bills?
A) impeach him
B) remove him from office-removal only failed by one vote
C) override his vetoes
D) Radical Republicans lacked political power since racism was so entrenched; they were unable to do anything about Johnson's vetoes
Q2) How did Andrew Johnson's becoming president affect blacks?
A) It didn't affect them. Johnson followed all of Lincoln's plans and initiated none of his own.
B) Johnson felt that blacks should not vote or have a role in government, and were vastly inferior to whites. He destroyed many of their hopes.
C) Johnson felt that blacks were the social and political equals of whites, and that they should be given the same rights as whites.
D) Johnson was president only for a few months, and therefore had little effect .
Q3) The ________________ became the most important institution to blacks after Reconstruction.
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Chapter 13: The Meaning of Freedom: the Failure of Reconstruction,
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Q1) How did class and social status divide blacks during Reconstruction?
A) Leaders who had been slaves were often worried about land and labor issues.
B) Leaders who had been free were often worried about civil rights issues.
C) Leaders who had been slaves were often worried about land and labor issues, and leaders who had been free were often worried about civil rights issues.
D) This is a myth: leaders were completely united about how to deal with education during Reconstruction.
Q2) What was the first opportunity for many black men to participate in politics in the South?
A) black men had no opportunity to participate in politics in the South
B) constitutional conventions during Reconstruction
C) the presidential election of 1872
D) elections for the state senate seats, in which many blacks also ran for office
Q3) ________________ is the right to be brought before a judge and not be arrested or jailed without cause.
Q4) ______________ College was the first historically black state university, founded in 1872.
Q5) Where was the KKK founded?
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Chapter 14: White Supremacy Triumphant: African
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Q1) Where were black migrants of the late nineteenth century least likely to go?
A) Kansas
B) Africa
C) Oklahoma or Arkansas
D) the North
Q2) How did the Southern Farmers' Alliance deal with race?
A) It was an interracial organization, and allowed blacks leadership roles and equal rights in membership.
B) It was an interracial group, but refused to allow blacks to lead them.
C) It chose not to include blacks, who had to form their own organization.
D) It chose not to include blacks, and forbid them from forming their own organization.
Q3) What is true about most rural black families in the South after Reconstruction?
A) Many were attaining close to high school level education.
B) Their diet was adequate, and although not up to today's standards, fairly balanced.
C) They generally stayed in the South, under desperate conditions of poverty.
D) Rural black families often had some levels of savings, although they were never rich.
Q4) What was the name of the case that upheld Louisiana's segregation laws?
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Chapter 15: Black Southerners Challenge White Supremacy
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Q1) Which of the following is true about blacks in business in the late nineteenth century?
A) Some blacks had the opportunity to move up in white-owned corporations.
B) In order to succeed in business, blacks generally had to cater to other blacks.
C) Many blacks were able to succeed with whites by being totally subservient.
D) Blacks actually had no businesses of their own during the late nineteenth century.
Q2) What art form gradually replaced ragtime in popularity in the early twentieth century?
A) a more sophisticated ragtime, with drums and the banjo
B) jazz
C) soul music
D) gospel recordings
Q3) What black college did Booker T. Washington found in 1872?
A) Hampton Institute
B) Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
C) University of Alabama
D) Washington State University
Q4) Who was Hampton Institute's most famous and prized student?
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Chapter 16: Conciliation, Agitation, and Migration: African
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Q1) How did men like William Monroe Trotter feel about Booker T. Washington's efforts and views?
A) Since Trotter benefited from Washington's power by receiving a political appointment, he supported him wholeheartedly.
B) Trotter was responsible for the assassination of Washington.
C) They became vocal, intense critics of Washington's. They felt he was yielding too much to whites.
D) Trotter, as an influential white man, appreciated Washington's efforts.
Q2) What was the first college sorority for black women?
Q3) The Niagara Movement leaders stated, "We repudiate the monstrous doctrine that the oppressor should be the sole authority as to the rights of the oppressed." What does this mean?
A) Blacks wanted to have an active role in determining what they wanted, rather than leaving it all up to whites.
B) They thought violence was the only solution to blacks' problems.
C) They thought whites had no role in American politics.
D) They thought that blacks should become the oppressor over whites as the only solution to racism.
Q4) What was the first college fraternity for black men?
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Chapter 17: African Americans and the 1920s
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Q1) What was the "Niggerati," according to Zora Neale Hurston?
A) white people who read and supported black literature
B) her black literary colleagues during the Harlem Renaissance
C) white racists
D) blacks who were racist against darker-skinned blacks
Q2) What organization reemerged shortly after the release of the movie, The Birth of a Nation?
A) NAACP
B) Ku Klux Klan
C) Actors Against Racism
D) the first motion picture rating organization
Q3) How was the Klan of the 1920s different from the Reconstruction Klan?
A) The Klan in the 1920s was violent, when the Reconstruction Klan generally was not.
B) The Klan of the 1920s expanded their hate targets to include Catholics, Jews, and immigrants as well as blacks.
C) The Klan of Reconstruction was more of a political power.
D) .The Klan was able to run a viable candidate for president in 1924.
Q4) What organization was Randolph asked to lead in 1925?
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Q1) What was the "Bronx Slave Market"?
A) an area in New York where white racists tried to re-institute the slave trade
B) an area in New York were black men could go to get jobs, which paid very little
C) an area in New York where white women could very cheaply obtain day help from black women
D) a play by Langston Hughes about the difficulties of black life
Q2) How did black unemployment in large cities compare with the national unemployment rate?
A) Black unemployment was lower.
B) Black unemployment was higher.
C) Black unemployment was at the national average.
D) No statistics were kept on black unemployment during the time, since the government did not consider them to be very important.
Q3) Which of the following is true about the role of black women in the NAACP?
A) Black women were excluded from the NAACP until the 1950s.
B) Because they had no political power, they had very little to do with the organization.
C) Black women often made huge contributions through organizing and fundraising.
D) Black women were only allowed to lead children's branches of the NAACP.
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Chapter 19: Meanings of Freedom: Culture and Society in the 1930s
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Q1) How did big band swing music originate?
A) Whites began with black gospel music and added complicated, individualized rhythms and more instruments.
B) When white bandleaders orchestrated innovative black music.
C) Big band was actually a white innovation. Blacks fed off its popularity to develop jazz and the blues.
D) The federal government had underwritten music programs during the 1930s for blacks to develop new types of music.
Q2) What was a main characteristic of Dunham's dance choreography?
A) It was very conservative and often compared to classical ballet.
B) It was frequently filled with sexual movements and innuendo.
C) It was a forerunner of tap dancing.
D) It was quickly adopted by whites across the South.
Q3) In what area of Chicago was jazz focused?
A) Harlem
B) the North Side
C) the stockyard neighborhoods
D) the South Side
Q4) Where was the center of the black music world in the 1930s and 1940s?
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Q1) What finally lifted the United States out of the Great Depression?
A) Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs
B) black business successes
C) military spending by the United States to prepare for World War II
D) the Kennedy administration, and the development of the atomic bomb
Q2) How did the government incorporate blacks into the workforce to prepare for World War II?
A) It was overcoming the idea of racism even prior to the war.
B) It thought that too many whites would refuse to work in dirty, menial positions.
C) The government wanted all Americans behind the war.
D) It did not-most employers and unions refused to allow blacks to work in wartime industries.
Q3) What did Mabel K. Staupers fight against during the war?
A) for black women to be able to enter the military and fight in combat roles
B) discrimination against blacks in combat roles
C) quotas for black nurses in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps
D) the lynching of black soldiers
Q4) What area saw the most dramatic increase in black population during World War II?
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Q1) What was the ultimate outcome of the Albany Movement?
A) It was a complete success-with King's assistance, they desegregated the entire town.
B) Blacks were able to make some limited gains, like desegregating the lunch counters.
C) Blacks were appointed to several political offices by the mayor to prevent further violence.
D) It was a complete failure-although the city initially agreed to compromises, they quickly refused to implement any changes.
Q2) What facilities did Atlanta students specifically target?
A) private, restricted clubs
B) government facilities, which should have been willing to serve all customers
C) Woolworth's lunch counters
D) swimming pools and outdoor parks
Q3) What was the ultimate goal of the Albany Movement?
A) the registration of a black student at the local college
B) voter registration and total desegregation of the town
C) that local restaurants serve blacks as well as whites
D) that a local black newspaper be rebuilt after being burned down by racist whites
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Chapter 22: Black Nationalism, Black Power, Black Arts, 1965-1976
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Q1) Why was the Gary convention important?
A) It indicated a shift to electoral politics from direct action within the civil rights movement.
B) Blacks emerged from the convention unified over goals and tactics.
C) It was not important. Although widely publicized, few blacks supported the radical propositions of the Black Panther Party.
D) It demonstrated that white supremacy was alive and well.
Q2) What was a primary complaint among many black communities that had riots in the years from 1965 to 1969?
A) charges of black men raping white women
B) charges of police brutality or unfair, discriminatory practices
C) charges that blacks had been trying to exercise political power
D) Urban riots in those years were sparked solely by white racism. Blacks never participated in the riots.
Q3) Who became the first black mayor of a major American city in 1967?
A) Vernon Jordan of Jackson
B) Richard Daley of New York City
C) Carl Stokes of Cleveland
D) Martin Luther King of Atlanta
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Q1) Which of the following is true about homosexual African Americans in the 21st century?
A) Many African Americans are openly hostile to gays and lesbians, even to the point of being instrumental in prohibiting gay rights to marry in California.
B) Because African Americans have consistently been discriminated against themselves, they support the rights of others who have also been the victims of discrimination, including homosexuals.
C) Coretta Scott King and Jesse Jackson generally ignored gay rights in favor of working to end poverty.
D) Homosexual African Americans were very open about their sexuality.
Q2) Why have some blacks criticized gangsta rap?
A) It is generally too loud, and damages the eardrums of children.
B) Its lyrics are often anti-women, violent, and offensive.
C) It advocates having blacks in subordinate positions to whites in society.
D) It is generally only copying other musicians' creative efforts.
Q3) For what did Pope John Paul II apologize in 1993?
Q4) What rap artist emerged to counter the images of women presented by gangsta rap artists?
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Q1) What did the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1988 accomplish?
A) Although it would have made significant gains for blacks, Reagan vetoed it at the last minute.
B) It helped black women gain jobs in federal employment.
C) It would have negated all rights gained by blacks over the previous thirty years; however, President Clinton vetoed it.
D) It said that all federal funds to an entire institution would be withheld if any part of the institution discriminated against women or racial minorities.
Q2) What significant first did Ronald Brown achieve?
A) He was the first black man to run for the presidency.
B) He became the first black man to lead a major national political party.
C) He was the first black man to be elected mayor of a predominantly white city.
D) .He was the first black man to be selected to the US Supreme Court.
Q3) What is not true about the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996?
A) It eliminated aid to help children of poor families.
B) It denied welfare benefits to legal immigrants.
C) It drastically reduced food stamp benefits.
D) It provided more years of benefit for families.
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