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America proudly displayed its newest technological wonders at the Centennial Exposition in

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Philladelphia

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Edison organized the building of the first electrical power plant in

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New York City

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major significance of Elihu Thomson's career was his __________.

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successful and prosperous General Electric Company

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pioneer of horizontal integration was

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John D. Rockerfeller

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Automated cigarette manufacturing was pioneered by

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James Duke

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use of sweatshops was most common in

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the garment industry

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By 1900, legislative acts that regulated the horrors of child labor were

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not effectively enforced by authorities

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Terrence Powderly

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The leader of the Knights of labor.

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Samuel Gompers

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led the American Federation of Labor as it became the largest organizer of workers in the United States

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Eugene V. Debs

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Leader of the American Railway Union, he voted to aid workers in the Pullman strike. He was jailed for six months for disobeying a court order after the strike was over.

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Henry Clay Frick

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Manager of the Carnegie Steel plant outside of Pittsburgh, PA who barricaded the plant and hired armed Pinkerton guards to attack striking workers

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Theodore Dreiser

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American naturalist who wrote The Financier and The Titan. Like Riis, he helped reveal the poor conditions people in the slums faced and influenced reforms.

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Jacob A. Riis's How the Other Half Lives focused on __________.

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the sordid life of the urban poor

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Kate Chopin

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(The Awakening, 1899), United States writer who described Creole life in Louisiana (1851-1904)

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Jane Addams

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1860-1935. Founder of Settlement House Movement. First American Woman to earn Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 as president of Women's Intenational League for Peace and Freedom.

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Daniel Hale Williams

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first to perform open heart surgery by removing a knife from a stabbing victim's chest

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Amadeo Pietro Giannini

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the peoples bank, who gave money to the little guy

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In the early 1900s, rare professional opportunities were available to women as

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typewriters, typists

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Regarding the increase of female workers, most Americans believed that

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a women proper role was caring for the family and home

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purpose of the settlement house movement was to

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moderate effects of poverty through neighborhood reconstruction

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Andrew Carnegie stated a differing view of the Gospel of Wealth by expressing that

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the affluent class should return some of the wealth to the working class communities

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Which statement would most likely have been said by a believer in Social Darwinism?

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"The laws of nature dictate the conditions of life for both rich and poor."

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Which labor organization was formed in 1886 and became the major organizing body for skilled workers?

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American Federation of Labor (AFL)

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year 1886 saw the labor movement unify behind the move for

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getting the 8-hour work day

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American workers were drawn to the American Federation of Labor's

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emphasis on collective bargaining.

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According to your text, how many strikes were called in the late nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries?

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22,000

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huge group of Jewish immigrants escaped from the pogroms in

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Russia

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Francesco Barone's success in America led to

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the chain migration of many Sicilians to his new town

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Which statement would most likely have been said by a nativist?

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"The nation's purity is being ruined by Catholics and undesirable foreigners."

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American Protective Association specifically focused on

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limiting the civil rights of Catholic Americans

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What was the only area in which immigrants discovered they were favored by nativists?

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west

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Residential suburbs were first populated by

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members of the middle class.

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Joseph Pulitzer and Randolph Hearst capitalized on the middle-class's taste for

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the easy-to-read form of urban tabloids.

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After 1890, department stores

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Place where many people can meet. Everyone can shop here

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Which spectator sport was largely favored by the middle class at the turn of the century?

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Baseball

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American Federation of Labor was formed in

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1905

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In which decade did John D. Rockefeller form Standard Oil?

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1870-1879

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Which of the following conditions in Italy was least important for Italians deciding to migrate in the late nineteenth century?

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too high mortality rate

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Of the following, the last to enter the "middle class" in America was the __________.

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factory supervisor

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One effect of workers being required to work long hours was __________.

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a disruption of workers' family lives

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Stereotypes of blacks were reinforced __________.

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by portrayals of blacks in vaudeville and film

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example of vertical integration was __________.

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Gustavus Swift's control of all aspects of meatpacking

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As the size of the industrial work force grew in the late nineteenth century, __________.

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the number of firms in given industries shrank

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workplace of the late 1800s included which of the following conditions?

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increased mechanization

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Upton Sinclair's The Jungle focused on the problems of __________.

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meatpacking plants

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Horatio Alger stories __________.

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reinforced Gospel of Wealth ideas

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In the urban, working-class neighborhoods of the early twentieth century __________.

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immigrants tended to live among people from the same homeland

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After 1870, __________.

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American inventiveness and technological progress flourished

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term gilded age refers specifically to a time when __________.

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materialistic excess and sharp social divisions existed

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In the latter part of the nineteenth century, countries that attracted migrants usually __________.

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had growing industrial economies

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One disadvantage for American workers of the rise of corporations was __________.

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corporations now controlled the conditions and nature of work

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Immigration and migration patterns from 1880-1910 resulted in __________.

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the impressive growth of many cities

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industrial owner who practiced horizontal integration __________.

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bought out competitors in the same industry

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turning point in the Pullman strike occurred when __________.

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President Cleveland ordered federal troops to enforce a court order against the strike

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aggressive tactics of John D. Rockefeller were supported by his __________.

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financial alliance with investment banker J. P. Morgan

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Seven policemen and four workers were killed by a bomb at Haymarket Square in __________.

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Chicago

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number of immigrants from northern and western Europe was highest around __________.

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1880-1890

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major difference between the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor was __________.

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membership in the Knights of Labor was open to all workers

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Between 1870 and 1910, the percentage of people working in __________ shrank.

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agriculture

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Great Uprising of 1877 was a general strike against the nation's __________.

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railway companies

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new middle class __________.

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often pioneered national social trends

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Downtown districts tended to include __________.

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retail shops and financial institutions

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effect of the rise of corporations in America was __________.

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a stimulation of capital investment and technological advances

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Before the industrial boom of the late 1800s, __________.

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labor was done by artisans who controlled the pace and output of their labor

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Coney Island in New York served as an optimal example of Americans' love for __________.

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amusement parks and technological wonders

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In 1900, the largest city in the United States was __________.

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New York

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term "Great Migration" refers to the __________.

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mass movement of American blacks from the rural South to the urban North

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purpose of the settlement house movement was to __________.

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moderate poverty through neighborhood reconstruction

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