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after the civil war, the West favored the issue of greenbacks because

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inflation and cheap dollars would favor the farmers, who were in debt

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the homestead act provided

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160 acres of free land within the public domain to any head of household who settle on it and improve it over a period of five years

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Land Grant act

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set up A+M colleges

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Timber Culture Act

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planted trees

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Water act

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irrigation system

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the land grant act was also known as the

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morill act

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the federal government's indian policy between 1876 and 1900 was characterized by

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a movement to encourage the Indians to learn the ways of white society

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the federal government's indian policy between 1876 and 1900(what act?)

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dawes act

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the purpose of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was to

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weaken tribes, allot land to individual Indians, and promote assimilation

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helen hunt jackson's book entitle A Century Of Dishonor(1880) recounted?

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the long record of broken treaties and injustices agaist American Indians

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Terence V Powderly, head of the Knights of Labor, advocated?

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a gradual end to the wage system and the reorganization of society on cooperative principles, temperance, admission of blacks into local Knights of Labor assemblies

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"yellow dog" contracts were contracts in which

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workers promised not to strike or join a union

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a major reason for the low wages of unskilled workers throughout the 19th century was that

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management was able to draw on cheap labor on a global scale

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In the 19 century, railroads formed pools in order to

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fix prices and divide business for greater profit

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a closed shop requires workers to

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join a union to secure a job

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what did grover cleveland think was the way to deal with the Depression of 1893-1897?

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defend the gold standard and bolster government gold reserves

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what did the Bland Allison Act do?

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enacted the Sherman Silver Purchase Bill

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booker t. washington believed that the best way for blacks to improve their status in the US was to?

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accommodate themselves to segregation and disfranchisement while at the same time working hard and proving their economic value to society

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W.E.B DuBois was

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political

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Booker T. Washington was

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economic

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W.E.B DuBois formed the

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NAACP

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the NAACP was also known as the

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Niagra Movement

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mark twain called the era follwoing the civil war the "gilded age" because

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the glitter and flashiness of the time seemed to mask the ugliness and crass materialism that lay beneath the surface

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europeans who came to the US after 1880 have been described as "new" immigrants mainly because they

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came generally from different countries than most earlier immigrants(southern and eastern countries)

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what enabled city dwellers of the late 19c and early 20c to live in greater comfort and safety

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the adoption of public health regulations

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which group would have been most likely to support Tammany Hall? A)industrial and buisness leaders B)organized religion C)poor urban immigrants D)middle-class shop owners E)wealthy rural landowners

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c)poor urban immigrants

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boss tweed ran?

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tammany hall

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what did boss tweed do that was so corrupt?

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he helped immigrants find jobs if only they voted for a certain candidate

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Jane Addams is most closely associated with what movement?

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the settlement house movement

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Quick pairs: A)Jane Addams B) Boss Tweed C)Upton Sinclair D)Margaret Sanger

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a)Hull House b)tammany hall c)the novel, the jungle d)birth control

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after 1890, increased immigration began to present a national problem because

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unskilled laborers tended to concentrate in crowded urban slums

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as a result of the depression of 1893

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new attitudes toward poverty and government responsibility emerged

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new attitudes toward poverty and government responsibility emerged. what movement?

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progressive movement

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one theme of the gilded age politics was the

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triumph of urban-industrial interests

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the interstate commerce act of 1887 and the sherman antitrust act of 1890 had in common the fact that they

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were greatly strengthened by the supreme Court in the years after they were passed

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which type of government assitance was most helpful to labor during the period 1876-1914

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state legislation

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labor unions were ruled not to be illegal conspiracies provided that their methods were honroable and peaceful in the supreme court case of

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commonwealth v hunt

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which court case overturns plessy v feguson?

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brown v board of education

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plessy v ferguson said what?

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segregation is legal

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munn v illinois said what

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federal government can regulate commerce

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the concept of "limited liability" contributed to the development of corporations and was appealing to many Americans because

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they risked only their own investments and werent responsible for the debts of the corporation,did not have to be personally involved in the corporation to purchase stock in it, entrepreneurs could now amass great sums of money for investment

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between 1880 and 1900 where were immigrants mainly coming from

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southern and eastern europe

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all of the following means were favored by the farmers between 1870 and 1900 in an attempt to better their condition except:? a)limits on production b)regulation of rr's hauling rates c)cheap$ and low tariff rates d)cooperative marketing societies

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a)limits on production of farm crops

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an important result of the populist movement was that it

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helped to liberalize the Democratic party platform of 1896

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the supreme court upheld the principle that state gov't could regulate railroad and grain elevator companies with its decision in

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munn v illinois

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which court case overturns munn v illinois

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wabash v illinois

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the fed govt aided settlement into the Great Plains region by all of the following means except a)offering settlers large areas of land at very small fees if they would live there for five years b)making it easy to establish western territorial governments c)giving cash bonuses to every settler who established residency in the new territories d)changing federal land law frequently to adjust to western circumstances

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c)giving cash bonuses to every settler who established residency in the new territories

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one of the most significant aspects of the Interstate Commerce Act was that it

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represented the first large-scale attempt by the federal government to regulate buisness

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the supreme court in the United states v knight company

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diminished the effectiveness of the sherman anti-trust act by ruling that manufacturing was not interstate commerce

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Which was not a goal of the populist party?: a)having govt take over and run the railroads b)increasing the money supply c)raising the protective tariff d)having the people elect US senators instead of state legislatures' choosing them

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c)raising the protective tariff

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the sherman silver purchase act of 1890

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fixed the government's monthly purchase of silver in weight rather than dollars

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a political scandal of the grant era in which US Congressmen were bribed not to investigate the illegal practices of a railroad construction company

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Credit Mobile

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state and local laws that discriminated against African Americans by denying them access to "white-only" railroad cars, restaurants, and other public facilities

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Jim Crow Laws

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thes progressive republicans did not like the dishonest policy of the conservative republicans and, therefore, supported Democratic candidate, Grove Cleveland, for president in the 1884 election

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half-breeds

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this law gave three civil service commissioners the power to conduct competitive exams for prospective government workers in an effort to replace incompetent bureacrats

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pendleton act

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this group of distilers bribed federal agents to avoid paying the treasury department millions of dollars in excise taxes

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whiskey ring

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the regular and conservative branches of the republican party in the 1880s

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stalwart

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passed in 1890, this legislation declared combinations in restraint of trade to be illegal

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sherman antitrust

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in his book, the theory of the leisure class, he said that buisness elites displayed conspicuous consumption

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thorstein veblen

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this multimillionaire was the largest steel producer in the country. in an article, he wrote he supported the idea of the gospel of wealth

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Andrew carnegie

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a company that forces a worker to sign an employment agreement which states that the worker cant join a union before he can be employed

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yellow dog

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this private detective agency was often used by buisness to intimidate workers and stop strikes

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Pinkertons

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he was the most prominent multimillionaire in the East who controlled most of the eastern railroads, including the New York Central

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Vanderbilt

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a court order obtained by a company to ban unions and stop strikes

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injunction

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probably the most versatile and prolific inventor in American history, he recieved thousands of patents for his investments

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edison

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these radical pennsylvania anthracite coal miners damaged American labor's image by using violence,intimidation, and murder to address their grievances against the mine owners

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Molly McGuire's

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this legislation empowered the ICC to fix reasonable maximum railroad rates

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Interstate Commerce Act

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the control of an industry or service by a few powerful companies

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oligopoly

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he attacked the power of the big corporation in his book, The Octopus

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Frank Norris

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this legislation outlawed interlocking directorates and unfair pricing policies

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Clayton Anti-Trust Act

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this Supreme Court case approved of the practice of segregating public facilities provided that they were separate but equal

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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he was the republican leader who managed president McKinley's 1896 campaign

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Mark Hanna

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in a famous speech, he advocated free silver and part of the Omaha Platform

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William Jennings Bryant

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this 1890 law was devised to cut surplus revenue and continue protection for American industries. the average duty rate of over 50% angered Latin Americans and Europeans

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McKinley Tariff

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this group demanded the circulation of paper money and other reforms

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Greenbeck labor party

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