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The last battle between the US Army and the America Indians, often recognized symbolically as the death of Plains Indian culture, was fought at A) Little Big Horn B) Sand Creek C) Wounded Knee D) Big Creek E) Pine Ridge

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C

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By the 1870s, the major mineral being mined in the West was A) gold B) silver C) copper D) lead E) platinum

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B

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The biggest boost to the cattle industry in the late nineteenth century was the A) breeding of longhorn cattle B) movement of the railroad westward C) arrival of the cowboy D) decline of open-range grazing E) the invention of barbed wire

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B

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The "New South" probably can best be described as a society of A) cotton fields, plantations, and agriculture B) tobacco, slavery, and planters C) commerce, cotton mills, and steel D) trading firms and shipbuilders E) small farmers and day laborers

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C

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"Jim Crow" laws A) disenfranchised black Americans B) extended the naturalization period for foreigners C) prevented women from voting D) mandated labor unions E) mandated racial segregation in public facilities

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E

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The Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson stated that A) the right of blacks to vote was not constitutionally protected B) black Americans could be prevented from running for office C) Jim Crow laws were illegal D) black and white Americans could be segregated by race, but must be supplied with equal facilities E) the Fourteenth amendment did not apply to private acts of discrimination

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D

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In the fight for equal rights, black leader Booker T Washington adopted a strategy that emphasized A) segregation B) political equality and freedoms C) self-help and education D) government assistance to blacks E) violent resistance

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C

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All of the following statements regarding homesteading on the Great Plains are not true except A) most homes were simple wooden cabins made out of oak or pine B) the northern Plains were heavily populated by foreign-born residents C) Plains communities were notable in their lack of ethnic diversity D) most immigrants who settled there were from southern Italy and Russia E) the largest segment of settlers came from the American South

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B

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In the mining frontier A) the largest and most profitable mines were owned by large mining corporations B) small independent miners controlled production and set prices C) labor/management relations were peaceful due to high pay and industry profits D) environmental concerns prevented the use of wasteful and destructive technologies E) Native Americans supplied more of the labor force

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A

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Most cowboys in the Old West were A) men who led solitary lives marked by personal freedom B) gunfighters who rode oversized horses C) laborers who worked for industrial corporations D) similar to the handsome romantic heroes depicted in western movies E) black, Indian, and Mexican American

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C

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The "ghost dance" was A) a religious movement that promised the destruction of the white man and the return of the Indian land B) a Halloween celebration popular among Czech and German immigrants on the plains C) the only indian cultural activity permitted by indian agents on the reservations in the 1890s D) introduced by christian missionaries as a means of undermining pagan rituals E) a funeral ritual practiced by the Pueblo indians

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A

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All of the following statements regarding the Chinese in California are true except they A) were overwhelmingly male B) were unable to develop communities owing to a shortage of women C) were actively recruited to come to the region as laborers D) were subject to the foreign miners' tax E) refereed to California as "Gold Mountain"

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B

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By 1890 the Sioux and other reservation indians A) were rapidly adapting to a capitalist agrarian lifestyle B) had achieved full US citizenship and equal rights C) were reduced to lives of poverty D) were profiting from the discovery of oil on their ancestral lands E) were working in large numbers for the mining industry

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C

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The Dawes Severalty Act A) protected tribal ownership of land and separate nation status B) offered each Indian head of family 160 acres of farmland or 320 acres of grazing land C) resulted in the addition of millions of acres to tribal holdings D) only affected the five "civilized tribes" E) led to the revival of traditional cultures

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B

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The economy of the "New South" was colonial in that A) it had not changed since the colonial period of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries B) it depended on raw materials imported from Caribbean colonies C) many major industries were financed and controlled by northern businessmen D) southern leaders invested more capital in agriculture than in manufacturing E) European investors controlled much of the land and the industry

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C

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All of the following statements regarding race relations during the New South period are true except A) most black southerners were denied the right to vote B) ninety percent of the convicts in southern prisons were black C) most southern blacks lived as tenant farmers of sharecroppers D) reform groups agitated for elimination of the convict leasing system E) lynching and racial violence declined significantly

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E

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Charles Guiteau is noted as the A) paranoid schizophrenic who assasinated James A Garfield B) Mugwump leader who ran as the vice presidential candidate in 1892 C) congressman who led the civil-service reform movement D) major northern Democratic leader of the 1880s E) a writer whose work inspired significant reforms in the Gilded Age

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A

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In 1880, the Bureau of Census announced that A) sixty percent of the US population lived west of the Mississippi River B) a majority of Americans were foreign born C) the frontier which had separated the settled from unsettled areas of the continent no longer existed D) the number of immigrants coming to the US was at its lowest point in history E) most americans now lived in urban areas rather than on farms

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C

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According to Frederick Jackson Turner, American character and culture were primarily influenced by A) the spanish and the french traditions B) the development of civilized cities and towns C) the spread of the plantation system D) the existence of the frontier and the westward movement E) war

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D

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Which of the following best describes the Mugwumps, Stalwarts, and Half-Breeds? A) they were conflicting groups within the Democratic Party B) both the Mugwumps and Half-Breeds supported reforms while the Stalwarts opposed reform C) only the Stalwarts advocated civil-service reform D) All three groups favored extension of the spoils system E) they were three fledgling political parties who supported "clean" politics

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B

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The McKinley Tariff of 1890 A) established the first income tax B) has a reform measure that reduced the price of American manufactured products C) was vetoed by President Benjamin Harrison D) was responsible for the decisive Republican victory in the election of 1892 E) had a protective tax that raised import duties to an average of 50 percent

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A

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The "Battle" of Wounded Knee A) was the worst defeat in the history of the US Army B) was a shoot out between sheep herders and cattlemen in Wyoming C) revitalized Plains Indian culture D) symbolized the death of the Plains Indian's way of life E) defeated the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico

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D

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The US Army encouraged the slaughter of millions of buffalo A) because the buffalo limited the grazing range for cattle B) in order to feed hungry industrial workers in the North C) to stop the spread of disease among cattle herds in the Plains D) because the great herds interfered with the building of the transcontinental railroad E) in order to weaken the Plains Indians by depriving them of their source of food, clothing, and shelter

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E

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Most of the New South's iron and steel industry was concentrated in A) central Georgia B) northern Alabama C) southern Mississippi D) eastern Tennessee E) Texas

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B

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The Homestead Act began under the administration of President A) Rutherford B Hayes B) Grover Cleveland C) Ulysses S Grant D) James A Garfield E) Abraham Lincoln

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E

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The most environmentally destructive type of mining in California's gold rush was A) strip B) placer C) pan D) stamping E) hydraulic

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E

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Ida Wells was an advocate for A) copper miners B) Chinese women in California C) southern blacks D) civil reform in government E) Mexican Americans

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C

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Open-range grazing declined in the West because A) the range had become overstocked B) record cold killed thousands of free range cattle C) scientific breeding proved more profitable D) ranchers began fencing their land E) all of the above

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E

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Under the Dawes Act A) millions of acres of reservation lands were opened to white settlement B) most Indians readily adapted to the new agricultural economy C) the reservation system emerged stronger than ever D) Indians actually ended up controlling more land E) Indians religious practices were revived

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A

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Southern cotton mills had a competitive advantage over northern mills because of A) cheap energy sources B) cheap labor, made up mostly of former slaves C) cheap labor, made up mostly of poor native southern whites D) cheap labor, made up of immigrants E) better weather conditions

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C

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In the years following the Civil War the southern agricultural economy A) depended on food production B) depended on the crop lien system C) recovered quickly from the devastation of the war years D) received extensive government subsidies E) depended on investments from England and Europe

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B

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In the 1880s, James B Duke industrialized the ___ industry A) cotton B) coffee C) mining D) tobacco E) meatpacking

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D

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The Interstate Commerce Act A) outlawed unfair pricing activities on the part of railroads B) outlawed the restraint of trade between states C) attempted to control business trusts D) extended subsidies to railroads E) none of the above

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A

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In the late 1890s, farmers experienced A) a new era of prosperity B) the adoption of the silver standard C) a steady drop in the prices that lasted until WWI D) an increase in the deflation trend E) success in seeing "one of their own" elected president

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A

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The issue that caused the Populist Party to be absorbed by the Democratic Party was A) income tax B) the coinage of silver C) government control of railroads D) direct election of senators E) women's suffrage

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B

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The winner of the 1896 presidential election was A) William McKinley B) William Jennings Bryan C) Theodore Roosevelt D) Mark Hanna E) Benjamin Harrison

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A

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"Granger Laws" A) helped destroy the Patrons of Husbandry B) established state railroad commissions to determine fair transportation rates and warehouse charges C) never actually went into effect until the twentieth century D) regulated farm cooperatives and land banks E) led to the creation of the Populist party

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B

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In the landmark decision of Munn v. Illinois (1877) the Supreme Court A) declared state railroad regulations unconstitutional B) upheld the right of states to regulate public businesses including railroads C) established federal guidelines for agricultural production D) outlawed segregation in companies engaged in interstate commerce E) outlawed child labor

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B

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In the late nineteenth century, the railroads A) employed more workers than any other industry B) established the four standard time zones still used in the US today C) were the major means of transporting people and products across the country D) employed unfair pricing practices E) all of the above

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E

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The Greenback and "free silver" movements supported A) a sound money policy to strengthen the dollar on the international market B) the complete reorganization of the US banking system C) a free enterprise approach to establishing interest rates D) increasing the amount of currency in circulation E) overthrowing the us government

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D

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