Reply #24: I agree, Marbury is important - I'm just not certain

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that being able to identify the case indicates sufficient understanding of the concept. A toughie, when you're trying for short answers.

As for #15 - again, I just don't see it as important a moment in regard to an overall understanding of the Civil War. Wars begin, usually in fits and starts, and wars end, usually around a conference table in a smoke-filled room. This one, to me, asks 'who, what, where, when' but doesn't ask the fundamentally important question of 'why'. Still, it's one question out of many, so I'll hush up about it. :)

I think, for the the Revolutionary War question, I'd lean toward trying to elicit a response showing that they grasp the level of frustration the colonists' were feeling with Parliament and the King. The Boston Massacre was a single event that was useful (and used) in ratcheting up that frustration, but if I had to choose something as the straw that broke the camel's back, I'd go with the implementation of the 'Intolerable Acts'. Again, that's a tough question to answer in a single sentence - more of an short essay, really (I still recall my undergrad history prof giving us one page to answer "Explain the outbreak of World War I" - and he wasn't talking about the Archduke's assassination!)

You're welcome to the #20 question - I'm chuffed you like it!