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1. Which group, formally known as the American Party, was active during the 1850s and had the goal of reducing the number of Catholics immigrating to the United States?
2. Who were the group of landholders who held manorial rights to large sections of land in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam during the 17th century?
3. What was the name of the secret society of Irish coal miners who committed acts of violence in Pennsylvania in the 1870s to protest their working conditions?
4. What was the name for Republicans who crossed party lines to support Democratic Presidential candidate Grover Cleveland in the election of 1884?
5. Which group was started by Abie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin in 1967, and is notable for protesting the 1968 Democratic convention and promoting a pig as a presidential candidate?
6. What was the name for the Northern Democrats in Congress just prior to the Civil War who had Southern sympathies?
7. What was the group of former slaves who tried to get blacks in the South to migrate to Kansas in the 1870s?
8. What domestic terrorist group kidnapped heiress Patricia Hearst in 1974 and demanded that her father donate food to poor people in California?
9. What was the name of the farmer's advocacy and fraternal organization, started after the Civil War (and that has continued to be active ever since) that fought for rural mail delivery and against railroad monopolies?
10. What is the name for the people in the 1950s who liked to wear black, hang out in coffee houses, and do poetry readings while playing bongo drums?
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