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The major prophet of the New South gospel was:

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Henry W. Grady

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The New South gospel emphasized all the following EXCEPT:

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women's rights

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The Pittsburgh of the South, so named because it was an iron center, was:

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Birmingham, Alabama

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King Cotton survived the Civil War and expanded over new acreage:

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even as its export markets leveled off

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The postwar South suffered from an acute shortage of:

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capital

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Who was the first president of the National Association of Colored Women?

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Mary Church Terrell

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The first great cowtown was:

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Abilene, Kansas

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Perhaps the ultimate paradox of the Bourbons' rule was that their paragons of white supremacy tolerated:

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a lingering black voice in politics

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The Mississippi plan of disenfranchisement included all the following EXCEPT a:

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provision disqualifying anyone who owned less than $300 in personal property

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In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court:

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upheld a Louisiana segregation law

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Booker T. Washington:

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founded the Tuskegee Institute

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Who said, "In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the five fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress"?

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Booker T. Washington

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Benjamin Singleton:

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was an early promoter of black migration to the West

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The Comstock Lode was:

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in Nevada

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Six states were created from the western territories in the years 1889-1890. These states were not admitted before 1889 because:

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Democrats in Congress were reluctant to create states out of territories that were heavily Republican

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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 reservations

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In the Battle of Little Bighorn:

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some 2,500 Indians annihilated a detachment of 210 soldiers

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The Dawes Severalty Act:

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sought to "Americanize" Indians by dealing with them as individuals

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Which of the following statements about the cowboys' frontier is NOT true?

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With two or three notable exceptions, blacks were not allowed to be cowboys.

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A Century of Dishonor:

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focused the nation's attention on the Indian cause

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The Newlands Reclamation Act of 1901:

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provided funds for irrigation works

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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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According to the superintendent of the census, the frontier line no longer existed after:

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1890

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In the late 1800s, the South experienced major increases in the production of all but one of the following:

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automobiles

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Under Bourbon rule in the South, state spending for public education:

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dramatically declined

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Ida B. Wells became famous for:

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leading a campaign against lynching

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Buffalo soldiers were:

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black soldiers who served in the West

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The Indian tribe that defeated Custer and put up the greatest resistance to U.S. domination was the:

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Sioux

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Cattle drives:

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were largely over by 1886

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Much of the development of the western plains has been shaped by its:

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aridity

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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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Between 1896 and 1915, southern states adopted this to gain complete control of elections and to further disenfranchise blacks:

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Democratic primaries

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In the landmark case Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company:

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the judge ruled on the legality of dumping mining debris in water sources

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This export crop spurred growth in agriculture in the late nineteenth century:

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wheat

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Cattlemen rationalized violence against sheepherders because:

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they saw sheepherder ethnicity or religious beliefs as inferior

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Congress passed the Homestead Act:

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during the Civil War

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In much of the nineteenth century, women in Texas could:

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work outside the home

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The Burke Act of 1906:

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made it possible for Indians living apart from tribes to gain citizenship

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Who said that the tobacco industry was "half smoke and half ballyhoo"?

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Buck Duke

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In 1877, President Rutherford Hayes addressed the American approach to dealing with Native Americans, saying:

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"Indian wars have had their origin in broken promises and acts of injustice on our part"

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The case of Plessy v. Ferguson involved a challenge to segregation laws that applied to

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passenger trains

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Exodusters were

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black Southerners who moved West

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Chief Joseph

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was the peaceful and dignified leader of the Nez Perce Indians

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Joseph Glidden

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perfected the invention of barbed wire

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From the end of the Civil War to the turn of the century:

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the value of manufactures increased sixfold

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A transcontinental railroad was not built before the Civil War because:

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North-South sectional differences prevented Congress from selecting a route

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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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Who initially backed the Edison Electric Illuminating Company?

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J.P. Morgan

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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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Which of the following best accounts for the success of Standard Oil?

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Its corporate structure-known as vertical integration-allowed the company to grow tremendously.

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Andrew Carnegie:

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made money in many areas, including oil, railroads, iron and steel, and bridge building

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What industry was "the first big business, the first magnet for the great financial markets, and the first industry to develop a large-scale management bureaucracy?

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Railroads

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

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have technical expertise in it

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The first billion-dollar corporation was:

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United States Steel

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During the Gilded Age, the rich were getting richer and:

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a lot of other people were at least better off

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The Molly Maguires:

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aimed to right the perceived wrongs against Irish coal workers

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The Workingmens party of California:

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was based on anti-Chinese sentiment

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The National Labor Union:

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persuaded Congress to enact an eight-hour workday

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The Knights of Labor declined for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

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Uriah S. Stephens, its president, died in 1879

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The Haymarket affair:

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was blamed, probably unfairly,on seven anarchist leaders

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The American Federation of Labor:

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was concerned more with concrete economic gains than with social or political reforms

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The Homestead strike:

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took place in Pennsylvania

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The Pullman strike ended:

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after mail cars were attached to Pullman cars

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Daniel De Leon:

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was the leading figure in the Socialist Labor party

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Which of the following statements about the Socialist party of America is not true?

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Its support was confined to industrial workers in the Northeast.

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William D. "Big Bill" Haywood:

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was the leader of the Industrial Workers of the World

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Most of the single men who endured low wages and dangerous conditions to build the Central Pacific Railroad were:

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Chinese

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Jay Gould was:

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the most notorious of the railroad "robber barons"

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John D. Rockefeller:

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became a leading philanthropist

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Sears, Roebuck and Company was a pioneer in:

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selling goods by mail

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For industrial workers in Gilded Age America:

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working and living conditions remained precarious

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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 ws provoked by:

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wage cuts that followed a depression

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Violence erupted at the Homestead Works in 1892 when:

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Henry Frick tried to break a strike by bringing in Pinkertons

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President Grover Cleveland's response to the Pullman strike was to:

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send federal troops to keep the trains running

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The state that gave the highest prcentage vote to the Socialist presidential candidate in 1912 was:

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Oklahoma

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The IWW was effectively destroyed when it:

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opposed American involvement in World War 1

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After her family died, Mother Jones moved to ________.

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Chicago

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Credit Mobilier was:

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a construction company that overcharged the railroads

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The work of Cornelius Vanderbilt helps emphasize that:

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business consolidation put the control of railroads in few hands

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Nikola Tesla's invention of the alternating-current motor did all of the following EXCEPT:

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made it possible for Edison to defeat Westinghouse

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Marxism, one strain of socialism, was imported to the United States mainly by:

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Germans

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Unlike Rockefeller and Carnegie, J. Pierpont Morgan:

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was born to wealth

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Joe Hill, the labor organizer, was NOT:

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buried in the Kremlin wall

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The Pinkertons were ______ who were often used to __________.

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"detectives" and security guards; control workers

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Federal and state government leaders after the Civil War actively encouraged the growth of business by doing all of the following EXCEPT

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providing prison labor to railroad companies

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The Knights of Labor

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sought for men and women to have equal pay

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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 successful strikes against the railroads

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Thomas Alva Edison invented the

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first successful incandescent light bulb

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Holding companies

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are firms that control the stock of other companies

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Mary "Mother Jones" Harris promoted all of the following causes except:

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temperance

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Which of the following best captures public sentiment about the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

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Public opinion shifted from sympathy to condemnation as people blamed the strikers for looting and violence

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Tension between labor and management in the late nineteenth century:

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helped generate interest in the doctrine of anarchism

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The Knights of Labor:

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sought to organize all types of workers

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Membership in the American Federation of Labor at first

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grew slowly

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For the first time, more than half of America's population lived in urban areas after:

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1920

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Which area had the greatest proportion of people living in cities?

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the Pacific coast

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Frederick Law Olmsted

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planned New York's Central Park

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Urban political bosses

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often were the biggest source of assistance for city dwellers

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After 1890 most immigrants were

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Jews and Catholics

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Ellis Island:

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is correctly represented by all the above statements

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Ellis Island was located right outside the port of:

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New York City

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After William James, the chief philosopher of pragmatism was

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John Dewey

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Nativism led to:

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a movement to exclude illiterates

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The exclusion of Chinese immigrants

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was first authorized with a ten-year suspension

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Herbert Spencer:

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coined the phrase "survival of the fittest."

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In New York City, the "dumbbell" tenement houses:

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were often fire hazards

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Vaudeville provided

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variety shows for men, women, and children

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All of the following forms of public entertainment were accessible to women except:

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saloons

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How did the institutional churches respond in the late nineteenth century to the mounting social concerns in America?

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slowly

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Women's access to higher education

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improved shortly after the Civil War

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The sport that was clearly the "national pastime" by 1900 was

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baseball.

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Mark Twain

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was the first great writer from west of the Appalachians

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A strict Social Darwinist would object to all the following except:

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a governmental policy of laissez-faire toward business

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Advocates of the social gospel

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believed Christians should love their neighbors and address social problems

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The main idea of Reform Darwinism was that:

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cooperation, not competition, would better promote progress

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The author of Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking was:

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William James

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Settlement house workers, insofar as they were paid, made up:

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but a fraction of all gainfully employed women

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The poor were helped by:

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urban machines

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Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, and Jack London belonged to a literary movement called:

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naturalism.

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The author of Sister Carrie was

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Theodore Dreiser.

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Progress and Poverty argued that

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nobody had the right to the value accrued from the land

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Thorstein Veblen:

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wrote about "conspicuous consumption" and "conspicuous leisure."

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The New York Consumers League:

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sought to make the public aware of degrading labor conditions

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One of the earliest leaders of the social gospel movement was

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Washington Gladden

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Saloons were especially popular among:

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male immigrants

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Chicago's Hull House was designed to assist

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slum dwellers.

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In 1869 the women's movement split on the issue of:

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whether or not the movement should concentrate on female suffrage to the exclusion of other feminist causes.

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Which of the following statements best describes the status of women's suffrage in the early twentieth century?

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Several states, all in the West, had adopted women's suffrage

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In Horatio Alger's books, the hero is successful primarily as a result of his

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hard work and luck

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City bosses and urban political machines in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries did which of the following?

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They provided some welfare for poor immigrants in exchange for political support

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"Every contract, combination in form of trust or otherwise... is hereby declared illegal." The passage above was most effectively used for which purpose in the late 19th century?

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restricting the power of monopolies and trusts

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Settlement houseworkers of the late nineteenth century would most likely have engaged in all of the following EXCEPT

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organizing women workers into labor unions

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Jacob Rii's principal involvement in the reform movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was his effort to

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publicize poor housing and sanitation in urban tenements

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The major goal of the Social Gospel movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was to

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draw the attention of protestant churches to the plight of the urban poor

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Most of the people who moved to the Pacific coast and elsewhere in the American West lived

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in urban areas

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Ellis Island

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was used mainly to process new immigrants, not to comfort or assist them

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The exclusion of Chinese immigrants:

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originally called for a ten-year term

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An early leader of the social gospel movement was:

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Washington Gladden

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Thorstein Veblen coined the phrase

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"Conspicuous consumption"

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Stephen Crane and Jack London belonged to a literary movement called:

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naturalism

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The first states to adopt women's suffrage were

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in the mountain west

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The spread of public education between the 1880s and 1900s reflected the desire:

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to Americanize Indian children

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After the Civil War, the _____ system became the basis for the modern American university

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German

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Cholera, typhoid, and yellow fever are all:

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water-related diseases

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The Famers' Alliance:

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helped establish the Populist Party

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William "Boss" Tweed controlled:

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Tammany Hall

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The "subtreasury plan":

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allowed farmers to secure low-interest government loans

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"You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!" This statement was made by:

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William Jennings Bryan

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The Interstate Commerce Commission

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was created to regulate railroads

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

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an Irish Immigrant

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Which of the following groups did NOT support increased coinage of silver

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Republicans

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The Pendleton Civil Service Act:

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provided for appointment to a number of government jobs on the basis of competitive exams

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

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a prohibitionist

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In the presidential election of 1896, all of the following may be applied to William Jennings Bryan EXCEPT:

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won after gaining the support of Theodore Roosevelt

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As president, Chester Arthur proved to be:

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surprisingly competent and independent

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The one issue on which there were clear-cut divisions between Democrats and Republicans in the Gilded Age was:

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the tariff

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The Stalwarts:

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were led by Roscoe Conkling

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People living during the Gilded Age expected what type of support from the federal government?

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very little

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Grover Cleveland:

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had a strictly limited view of government's role

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When Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner labeled the post-Civil War era the "Gilded Age," they implied that it was characterized by:

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widespread greed and corruption

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In the presidential election of 1892, the Populist candidate:

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won twenty-two electoral votes

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Chester A. Arthur

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was connected with the New York Customhouse corruption before he became president

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All the following were included in the 1892 Omaha platform of the People's party EXCEPT:

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halting the free and unlimited courage of silver

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In the depression of 1893, unemployment hovered around:

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20 percent

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Which of the following best describes Rutherford B. Hayes and civil service reform?

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Hayes was unable to get civil service legislation through Congress, but he set up his own rules for merit appointments

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The Civil Service Reform bill

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provided for appointment to a number of government jobs on the basis of competitive exams

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A reference in the 1884 presidential campaign to "Rum, Romanism, and rebellion"

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was especially offensive to Irish Americans, may have cost the Republicans the race, was attributed to a Protestant minister

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Grover Cleveland

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was the first Democrat elected to the White House since the Civil War

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Grover Cleveland showed political courage when he vetoed legislation favored by

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Union veterans

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One major argument Cleveland made for reducing tariffs was that

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the federal government had a surplus of revenue

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Benjamin Harrison was elected president

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although he received fewer popular votes than the loser, Grover Cleveland

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During the first two years of President Benjamin Harrison's term

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Congress passed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, the pension roles of Union veterans greatly increased, Republicans controlled both the White House and Congress

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Following the 1893 depression, Coxey's army

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demanded government jobs for the unemployed

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In the presidential election of 1896, William Jennings Bryan

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all of the above statements

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The so called crime of '73 referred to

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the congressional decision to drop the provision for the coinage of silver

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The "mongrel tariff" of 1883:

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Was called the mongrel tariff because it called for different rates for different commodities

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Who said, "I am now in my last year of the Presidency... And look forward to its close as a schoolboy longs for the coming vacation"?

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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Passage of the Granger laws

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Laid a foundation for stronger legislation to follow

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The independent National party:

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Was more commonly known as the greenback party

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The McKinley Tariff of 1890

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raised duties on manufactured goods

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The Mulligan letters tied former Speaker of the House James Blaine to:

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the bribes of rich railroad barons

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In the election of 1896, who found it easier to identify with McKinley's "full dinner pail" pledge than with Bryan's free-silver panacea

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urban wage laborers

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All of the following contributed to the expansion of US industrialism in the late 19th century EXCEPT:

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the demise of the capitalist class as a political force

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Which of the following was not an objective of the populists?

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preventing the government from owning and operating the railroad

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Proponents of the New South believed that the South should

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industrialize

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Why did tenant farmers have no incentive to take care of the farmland that they were on?

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It was not their land

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A prominent leader in promoting the settlement house movement was

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Jane Addams

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From the Civil War to the turn of the century:

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the value of manufacturing increased sixfold

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After the Civil War, the crop-lien system further impoverished farmers, both black and white, by

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requiring them to mortgage their crops to local merchants who furnished necessary supplies

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The lynching of blacks in the South

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increased at about the same that Jim Crow laws spread throughout the south

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Between 1887 and 1897, the efforts by state and territorial governments to protect workers were thwarted by:

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pro-business conservative judges

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In the novel, Progress and Poverty, which of the following authors prescribed a socialistic "single-tax" strategy on land to address the disparity of wealth between factory owners and workers?

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Henry George

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By 1890, all of the following led to inflation of the currency EXCEPT:

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the Sherman Silver Purchase Act

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The Farmers' Alliances

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helped establish the Populist Party

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In 1890, NYC had twice as many Irish as

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Dublin

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Which of the following was considered a radical trade union?

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Industrial Workers of the World

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Wounded Knee was significant because

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it marked the end of Indian resistance on the Great Plains

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The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was passed in order to

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break up Native American tribes by offering them lands out west

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