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The dominant socio-economic philosophy of the Age of Industrialism was
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social darwinism
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all of the following are example of business being aided by government during the age of industrialism except
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franchises
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The philosophy of Andrew Carnegie which emphasized that the rich man was a steward for the poor and should use the money he has made for a public purpose is called
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Gospel of Wealth
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all of the following are correct regarding the Chinese in America except
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over 300,000 came to the US in the last half of the 19th century mostly in family units
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in the late 19th century, tax benefits and cheap, nonunion labor attracted which manufacturing industry to the New South that had formerly always been located in the North?
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textile
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Author who eventually produced a multiple series of books extolling the virtues of pulling oneself by the bootstrap, equated with the rise from rags to riches
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horatio alger
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The Interstate commerce Commission was established to
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investigate and oversee railroad activities
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Which of the following statements about the period from 1860 to 1900 is NOT true
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US textile and iron production tapered off
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Which of the following was not characteristic of modern industrial America post-Civil War?
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an increase in price levels and a drop in interest rates
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The use of technology in the second half of the 19th century
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made it possible for manufacturers to hire cheap and unskilled or semi-skilled labor
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What was one of the ways in which railroad companies pioneered in large-scale corporate enterprise?
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`the issuance of stocks to meet their huge capital needs
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In 1900 US railroads
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had a combined debt that was 5 times that of the federal government
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The PA railroad provided many successful management techniques for
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Andrew Carnegie from his time working with that company
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Many Americans called the newly completed Brooklyn Bride the "eighth wonder of the world," but Andrew Carnegie went to the root of the matter when he referred to what as the real "eighth wonder of the world?"
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the steel manufacturing process
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The United States Steel Company was
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the first company capitalized at more than $1 billion
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The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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fined violators up to $5000 and a year in jail, was interpreted by the Supreme court in ways sympathetic to big businesses, failed to define clearly either trust of restraint of trade, and was passed because Congress feared that the trusts would stamp out all competition
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The Supreme Court in the United States v Knight Company diminished the effectiveness of the Sherman-Antitrust Act by ruling that
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manufacturing was not interstate commerce
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Considering the environmental, social, and economic consequences, which of the following is the best conclusion to draw about the process of industrialization as experienced in the US after the Civil War?
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it was a mixed blessing
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Which of the following was a factor in the South's late economic development?
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lack of capital
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The rapid industrial development of the US between 1860 and 1900
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produced an economy dominated by enormous corporations
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How did southern cotton mills differ from northern cotton mills in the 1880s?
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Southern mills were located in the countryside rather than cities
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In the late 19th century, child labor
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was common in the coal mines and cotton mills
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Which immigrants were most likely to be found in skilled trades in the 1880s?
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German
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Women joined the work force in growing numbers in the late 19th century because
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changes in the agriculture brought young farm women into the industrial labor force, and immigrant daughters worked to supplement meager family incomes
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Approximately how was wealth distributed in America in 1890?
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10% of American families owned 73% of the nation's wealth
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All of the following impeded the growth of the unions except
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lack of interest on the part of workers because their real wages were rising and conditions were improving
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In 1866 the newly organize National Labor Union embraced a wide range of reformist and political goals except
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relaxing restrictions on immigration
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The knights of Labor advocated a great association of all workers except
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liquor dealers
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Terence V. Powderly, president of the KOL, advocated
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admission of blacks into local KOL assemblies
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In the West the immigrants who bore the brunt of labor hostility in the 1870s and 1880s were
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chinese
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Samuel Gompers, head of the AFL advocated
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"trade unionism, pure and simple" concentrating on practical issues like wages and hours
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"Yellow Dog" contracts
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in which workers promised not to strike or join a union
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Labor relations at the end of the 19th century were
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characterized by violence and thousands of strikes
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The Haymarket Square bombing of 1886 resulted in
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intensified animosity toward labor unions
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in the pullman strike,
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the federal government used an injunction and troops against workers, and jailed the union leaders
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The Socialist Labor party was
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a marxist oriented party with only 1500 members in 1890
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young farm women led the exodus from rural areas to cities mainly because
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farm work was performed increasingly by males
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Who were the new immigrants who poured into the US between 1890 and 1920?
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southern and eastern Europeans
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in 1890 approximately what portion of the population of greater NY had been born abroad or were children of foreign parents?
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four out of five
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People immigrated to the US because of
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overpopulation in their homeland, crop failure in their homeland, industrial depression in their homeland, and the promise of good wages and a broad range of jobs
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upon reaching america, immigrants immediately faced
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a physical examination
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Whether newly arrived immigrants stayed in the city in which the landed or moved on largely depended on
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how much money they had
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Machine politics was
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urban politics controlled by the boss of an unofficial political organization designed to keep a particular party or faction in office
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Political bosses and precinct captains typically performed all of the following functions except
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running settlement houses
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Thomas nast's famous cartoon "let us prey" was directed against
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Boss Tweed
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The Young Men's and Women's Christian Associations were formed largely to
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assist rural young men and women who migrated to the city
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The salvation army was
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organized along pseudomilitary lines and attracted the urban poor through street meetings and soup kitchens to inculcated middle class values
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Anthony Comstock was a
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moral purity crusader
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The Social Gospel movement arose within
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Protestantism
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Which of the following would be most likely to challenge the statement that moral deficiencies of the immigrant poor caused their poverty?
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William S Rainford and the Social Gospel ministers
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Jane Addams and her coworkers at Hull House did all of the following except
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pressure Congress to restrict the flow of poor immigrants to the US
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Which of the following is a valid conclusion to draw about the ways in which immigrants adjusted to urban life in their new society?
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many immigrants shed their native culture only with reluctance
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the view of human nature associated with Victorianism was founded on which of the following assumptions?
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humans are basically good and could improve themselves through strenuous effort
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The aim and effect of the department store was to
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overcome middle and upper class reluctance to spend, make shopping an adventure, function as a kind of social club and home away from home for comfortably fixed women, and spotlight the high quality and low cost of the items from sale
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What purpose did college football have, according to its defenders in the late 19th century?
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it was a character building sport that could function as a surrogate frontier experience in an increasingly urbanized society
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What major change took place during the 19th century in the teaching of medicine, architecture, engineering, and law?
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standards were raised and practice was professionalized
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What was the new approach to higher education that institutions such as Cornell, the University of Wisconsin, Johns Hopkins, and Harvard began to provide in the late 19th century?
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to create an environment where any person could find instruction in any study
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During the late 19th century, the working class saloon was all of the following except
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a meeting place for husbands and wives
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"his colors are the stars and stripes, he also wears green, and he's the grandest slugger that the ring has ever seen." refer to
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John L. Sullivan
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The form of theatrical entertainment that drew the largest audiences in the late 19th century was
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vaudeville
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a typical vaudeville performance might include each of the following except
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a medley of popular arias from grand opera
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Why did ragtime quickly become a national craze during the 1890s, especially among the working class?
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the music displayed a fresh originality, it was considered to have a wild and complex rhythm, it originated in brothels and was associated with blacks, and it was played strictly for entertainment.
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Which of the following magazines was view in the late 19th century as an important forum for serious writing?
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North American review
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Which of the following is a story of an innocent and attractive girl from Wisconsin who is seduced by a traveling salesman, moves in with the married proprietor of a fancy saloon, and eventually pursues a career in theater?
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sister carrie
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a typical feature of daily life in a late 19th century American city was
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cultural diversity
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one of new Orleans's special contributions to late 19th century American life and culture was
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jazz
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All of the following were independent women's colleges that were affiliated with older men's colleges except
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wellesley
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Which of the following is not an indicator of women's changing relationship to men during the last decades of the 19th century
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the growing popularity of catalogs and department stores
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Which of the following suggests that public education int the late 19th century US had become entangles in ethnic and class differences?
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the proliferation of private and parochial schools, the controversy over compulsory education, the debated over classroom decorum, and the efforts to wrest control of schools from neighborhood leaders
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Who coined the term conspicuous consumption to describe the excess materialism and flaunting of wealth of America's captains of industry?
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Thorstein Veblen
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Who coined the term "gilded Age?"
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Samuel Langhorne Clemmons
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Washington Gladden, of the Congregationalist Church in Columbus, OH, led a group of concerned reformers to focus on the problems of the urban poor. He preached that Christianity demanded that the middle class help those less fortunate. This movement is called the
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Social Gospel
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The concept of the white man's burden as expressed in the poem by Rudyard Kipling gives which justification of imperialism?
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Social Darwinism
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Naval captain Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that
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control of the sea was the key to the United State's world domination
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Which negative economic action of the US in 1895 was partly responsible for the Cuban insurrection against Spanish rule?
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high tariff on sugar
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Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani was removed from power in a coup d'etat because
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she insisted that native Hawaiians should control Hawaii
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According to many historians, a major factor in the shift in American foreign policy toward imperialism in the late 19th century was
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need for overseas markets for the increased industrial and farm production
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President William McKinley asked Congress to declare war on Spain mainly because the
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American people demanded it
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President McKinley justified American acquisition of the Philippine primarily by emphasizing that
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there was no acceptable alternative to their acquisition
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As to whether American laws applied to the territory acquired in the Spanish-American War, the Supreme Court decided in the Insular cases that
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American laws did not necessarily apply
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What 2 issues dominated national politics in the 1870s and 1880s?
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the money supply and civil service reform
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During the 19th century, which of the following groups was likely to vote Republican?
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business and professional men
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During the late 19th century, the centers of Democratic political strength included all of the following except
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the upper Midwest
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Which of the following factors was most likely to determine one's party affiliation during the late 19th century?
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ethnic and religious ties
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The Pendleton Act provided for
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civil-service reform
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During the course of the 1884 presidential campaign,
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a clergyman denounced Democrats as the party of "rum, Romanism, and rebellion"
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Grover Cleveland, he only Democrat elected president between 1857 and 1912, believed that government should
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refrain from paternalism meddling in the economy
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The Patrons of Husbandry was
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organized of farmers, later known as the "Grange"
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Economically, the 1880s and early 1890s were years of
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rapid industrial growth, speculative mania, agricultural stagnation, and economic boom
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During the late 19th century, what was the relationship between the southern agrarian protest movement and southern attitudes towards blacks?
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some Populists wanted to build an interracial movement and tried to defend the rights of blacks, most southern populists were anti-black, redeemers tried to inflame agrarian racism and stimulate urban black sentiment against agrarian radicalism, and some populists denounced lynchings and the convict-lease system
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Which of the following was not a goal of Populist party?
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raising the protective tariff
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in the 1892 election, the populist party
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over 1 million voters voted for the party
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the Wilson-Gorman Tariff
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lowered duties, made many concessions to protectionists, included a tax on income, and became law without the president's signature
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In the 1896 election, William McKinley's strength came from all of the following areas except
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sparsely settled Great Plains and Rocky Mountains states
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Who was not an American expansionist in the late 19th century?
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Andrew Carnegie
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US international relations of the 1880s/1890s can be seen in events in Somoa, where
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US established a joint protectorate with Germany and Great Britain
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American ties to Hawaii in the late 19th century were strengthened through all of the following except American
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relations with the Hawaiian throne
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Which of the following not associated with the American involvement in Cuba?
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our little brown brothers
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To whom is Ernest L Meyer referring with the following: "in his long and not laudable career has inflamed Americans against Spaniards, Americans against Japanese, Americans against Filipinos, Americans against Russians, and his pursuit of his incendiary campaign he has printed downright lies, forged documents, faked atrocity stories, inflammatory editorials, sensational cartoons, and photographs and devices by which he abetted his jingoistic ends."
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William Randolph Hearst
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The Teller Amendment asserted that the US had
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no desire for control of Cuba
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Which of the following was ceded to the US by Spain as a result of the Spanish-American War?
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Guam
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What was John Hay referring to when he spoke of a splendid little war?
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that the short and successful war with Spain had awakened a new consciousness of national stregth
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How did the US deal with Cuba in the years after the Spanish-American war?
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by keeping American troops in Cuba for a number of years, by improving public health, education, and sanitation on the island, by asserting the right to intervene in Cuba when it was necessary, and by establishing a permanent naval base on the island
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In the Philippines after the Spanish-American War,
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Filipino resistance fighters fought a protracted and bloody guerrilla war against US rule
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Which of the following would not have been associated with the Philippine Insurrection of 1899-1902?
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the fighting ended with the assassination of Emilio Aguinaldo
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Which of the following people would not have been members of the anti-imperialist league?
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Theodore Roosevelt
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What was the impact of the introduction of photoengraving in magazines and newspapers?
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it spurred public action to tackle child labor, slum housing, and industrial safety
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Which of the following would NOT have been associated with new images in papers of the time?
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the assassination of President Garfield
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