AP US History Unit 6 Test Corrections – Flashcards
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What was the main issue in the 1896 presidential election?
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Free silver.
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What does not apply to the late nineteenth century relationship between the southern agrarian protest movement and southern attitude towards blacks?
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The Populist movement was exclusively white because of exclusion provisions in their charters.
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How were blacks treated in the North during the late nineteenth century?
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Public opinion sanctioned widespread de facto discrimination.
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What was not a goal of the Populist and Farmer's Alliance movements?
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A higher protective tariff.
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What was not a tool that southern states used to disfranchise blacks after Reconstruction?
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Outright legal prohibitions.
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What did the civil-service reformers of the late 1870s and early 1880s want?
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A professional civil service based on merit and staffed by gentleman.
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What two issues dominated national politics in the 1870s and 1880s?
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The money supply and civil-service reform.
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How did the settlement-house movement distinguish itself from other urban social-welfare organizations?
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It insisted that charity workers live in slum neighborhoods to better understand the living conditions of the poor.
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What did Karl Marx argue?
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That capitalists would eventually bring about their own destruction by driving impoverished workers to revolt.
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What was a secret of John D. Rockefeller's success?
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He paid attention to the minutest details and understood the benefits of vertical integration.
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In the United States v. Knight Company, the Supreme Court diminished the effectiveness of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by ruling that
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Manufacturing was not interstate commerce.
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What accurately reflects the differences between single working-class women and married working-class women in the nineteenth century?
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Married women commonly worked under sweatshop conditions within the tenements, whereas single women often viewed outside work as an opportunity.
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Where did Andrew Carnegie learn many of the successful management methods he used in the steel?
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As a foreman in the meatpacking industry in Chicago.
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Besides the fact that its all-inclusive membership undermined its unity, why did the Knights of Labor collapse in the late 1880s?
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Workers became disillusioned when a series of unauthorized strikes failed.
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What concerning the use of technology in industry in the second half of the nineteenth century is true?
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It made it possible for manufacturers to hire cheap unskilled or semiskilled labor.
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At the end of the Civil War, what communication system did the railroads use to coordinate their complex flow of rail cars?
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The magnetic telegraph.
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The 1898 Curtis Act
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Dissolved the Indian Territory and abolished tribal governments.
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Although Wild West Shows celebrated cowboys as quintessentially American, in truth they shared much in common with the
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Mexican vaqueros and Argentinean gauchos
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The Board of Indian Commissioners was
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An agency established by Congress to reform abuses on reservations.
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The 1887 Dawes Severalty Act was designed to
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Undermine tribal bonds by treating Indians as individuals.
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The Ghost Dance was
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A cycle of ritual songs and dance steps designed to bring about the destruction of European Americans and their removal from Indian lands.
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Much of the labor constructing the railroads throughout the West was provided by the following groups:
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Chinese, Irish, African-Americans, and Mexicans.
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Who supported the New South Creed?
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Industrialists who believed that the South's natural resources and cheap labor made it a natural site for industrial development.
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What was not true of Frederick Douglass?
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He did not popularize the theory of the "Talented Tenth"
