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All of the following factors helped accelerate economic growth after the Civil War EXCEPT

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the use of prison labor by railroad companies

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The first transcontinental railroad

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was built by the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroads

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The invention of electric motors did all of the following EXCEPT

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lead to the bankruptcy of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company

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The Pennsylvania oil rush

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outweighed, in economic importance, the California gold rush of a decade before

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Trusts, like Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust, were vulnerable because they

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were appealing targets for prosecution on the grounds of monopoly or restraint of trade

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When it came to steel, Andrew Carnegie did all the following EXCEPT

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have technical expertise in it

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During the Gilded Age, the rich were getting richer and

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many other people were at least better off

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All of the following statements are reasons why child labor was problematic EXCEPT

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child laborers took well-paying jobs from legal immigrants

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The Sand-Lot Incident refers to

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white men attacking Chinatown

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The National Labor Union

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was influential in getting Congress to enact an eight-hour workday for federal employees

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The Knights of Labor

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called for men and women to have equal pay for equal work

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The greatest growth of the Knights of Labor took place

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in the mid-1880s, when the union had several strikes against the railroads

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The American Federation of Labor

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was primarily concerned with securing concrete economic gains

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Membership in the American Federation of Labor at first:

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grew slowly

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Mail cars connected to Pullman cars during the Pullman strik

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justified a federal intervention, ending the strike by allowing railroad executives to claim that it interfered with the mail

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Mary "Mother" Jones promoted all of the following causes EXCEPT

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temperance

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Which of the following was Mother Jones a member of

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the socialist party

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Industrialization transformed not only the economy and the workplace, but also the nation's

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rural life ?

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One method that executives used to fight unions was:

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murdering their leaders ?

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Proponents of creating a "New South" argued that the Confederacy lost the Civil War because:

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it relied too much upon King Cotton

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The American Tobacco Company was

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dominating the U.S. tobacco industry by the twentieth century

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Why was Alabama named the "Pittsburgh of the South"?

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It was an iron center.

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The Comstock Lode refers to

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a mining discovery of gold and silver in Nevada

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Following the 1867 "Report on the Condition of the Indian Tribes," Congress decided that the best way to end the Indian wars was:

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to persuade the Indians to live on out-of-the-way reservation

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In the battle at the Little Bighorn River in 1876

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some 2,500 Indians annihilated a detachment of 210 soldiers

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Why was the expansion of railroads significant to the growth of the cattle industry?

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As the railroads increased the ability to ship huge numbers of western cattle, more cow towns were established in the West.

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Range wars erupted by the late nineteenth century because of

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the use of barbed-wire fences

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Cattle drives:

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were conducted by cowboys, twenty-five percent of whom were African Americans

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Violence in the mining towns was:

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as common as racial prejudice

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The rise of the cattle industry:

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made Chicago the fastest growing city in the nation

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The fight for survival in the trans-Mississippi West made men and women

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more equal partners than were their eastern counterparts

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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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Which region of the United States had the greatest proportion of urban dwellers?

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the Far West

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One of the reasons mass transit was significant to developing cities was because

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it allowed larger numbers of people to become commuters and live away from the central city

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Which of the following would most likely have been a Gilded Age Democrat?

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Irish immigrant

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The Stalwart

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were lead by Roscoe Conkling

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The American Protective Association

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was a secret organization whose members pledged never to employ or vote for a Roman Catholic

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Vaudeville shows were popular because

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they included something to please every taste, social class, and type

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Benjamin Harrison lost the popular vote in the 1888 election. How was he able to win the presidency

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He earned a majority of the electoral votes

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Commodity prices during the Gilded Age declined in large part because of:

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overproduction and international competition in world markets

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What distinguished the Farmers' Alliances from the Granger movement

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The Grange was a national organization that tended to attract more prosperous farmers, while the Alliances were grass roots organizations filled with struggling farmers

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What was the purpose of the "subtreasury plan"?

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It allowed farmers to secure low-interest government loans

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Young, urban women eager for recreation frequented all of the following EXCEPT:

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boxing matches

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One of the causes of the 1893 depression was failure of:

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the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad

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Social Darwinism implied the need for:

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hands off, laissez-faire government policy

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"Equal rights to all, special privileges to none" was the slogan of the:

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Democrat ?

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William Graham Sumner:

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argued in his book Folkways that it was a mistake for the government to interfere with established custom

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The main idea of reform Darwinism was that:

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cooperation, not competition, would best promote progress

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Realists' emphasis on closely observing everyday life grew out of:

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the scientific spirit

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