Ch. 19-22 – History – Flashcards
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According to the superintendent of the census, the frontier line no longer existed after:
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1890
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The historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that:
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the frontier shaped America's national character
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King Cotton survived the Civil War and expanded over new acreage:
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even as its export markets leveled off
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Under Bourbon rule in the South, state spending for public education:
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dramatically declined
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Joseph Glidden
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perfected the invention of barbed wire
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The first great cow town was
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Abilene, Kansas
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The Mississippi plan of disenfranchisement included all of the follow except:
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provision disqualifying anyone who owned less than $300 in personal property
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Much of the development of the western plains has been shaped by its:
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aridity
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Bourbons
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often favored convict leasing
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Cattlemen rationalized violence against sheepherders because
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they saw sheepherder ethnicity or religious beliefs as inferior
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Benjamin Singleton
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was an early promoter of black migration to the West
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The Indian tribe that defeated Custer and out up the greatest resistance was
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the Sioux
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"exodusters" were
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black southerners who moved west
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In the late 1800s, the South experienced major increases in the production of the following except:
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automobiles
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Cattle drives
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were largely over by 1866
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During the Gilded Age, the rich were getting richer and
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a lot of other people were at least better off
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The Molly Maguires
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aimed to right the perceived wrongs against Irish coal workers
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What industry was the first big business, the first magnet for the great financial markets and the first industry to develop a large-scale management bureaucracy?
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Railroads
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Thomas Edison invented the
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first lightbulb
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A transcontinental railroad was not built before the Civil War because
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North-South sectional differences prevented Congress from selecting a route
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Which of the following best accounts for the success of Standard Oil?
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Its corporate structure (vertical integration) allowed the company to grow tremendously
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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
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ended when workers, who lacked organized bargaining power, returned to work
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For industrial workers in the Gilded Age America
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working and living conditions remained precarious
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The work of Cornelius Vanderbilt helps emphasize how
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business consolidation put the control of railroads in few hands
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The Knights of Labor declined for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
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its president, Uriah S. Stephens, died in 1879
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Federal and state government leaders after the Civil War actively encouraged the growth of business by doing all of the following EXCEPT
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providing prison labor to railroad companies
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All of the following contributed to the 2nd Industrial Revolution EXCEPT
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international credit developed after bimetallism
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Jay Gould
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was the most notorious of the railroad robber barons
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Who initially backed the Edison Electric Illuminating Company?
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JP Morgan
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Who founded the company that eventually became AT&T?
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Urban political bosses
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often were the biggest source of assistance for city dwellers
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Ellis Island was located right outside the port of
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NYC
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What is NOT TRUE concerning a bill to exclude immigrants incapable of reading?
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Wilson supported it
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The exclusion of Chinese immigrants
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originally called for a ten year exclusion
