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Following the Civil War, generals like Philip H. Sheridan set out to destroy the foundations of the American Indian economy.

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True

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In the late 1800s, California tried to attract immigrants by advertising its pleasant climate and the availability of land, although large-scale corporate farms were coming to dominate the state's agriculture.

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True

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Ida Tarbell authored the famous novel House of Mirth, which depicted the downfall of a young woman trying to ?0Òmarry up?1Ó in society.

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False

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Which of the following was John D. Rockefeller's company?

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Standard Oil Company

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Inspired in part by President Garfield's assassination by a disappointed office seeker, the Civil Service Act of 1883 created a merit system for federal employees.

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True

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In 1890, the distribution of wealth in the United States was:

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the top 1 percent of Americans owned more property than the remaining 99 percent

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Neither of the two main political parties embraced any serious federal program to cushion citizens from poverty or unemployment.

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True

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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the years from 1873 to 1897 were known as:

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the Great Depression.

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Which census revealed for the first time that there were more non-farming jobs than farming jobs in the United States?

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1880

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The phrase that best captures the vision of the Knights of Labor is:

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?0ÒCooperative commonwealth.?1Ó

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The Civil Service Act of 1883 marked the first step in establishing a professional civil service and removing officeholding from the hands of political machines.

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True

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The Haymarket Affair resulted in the hanging of four convicted anarchists.

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True

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The industrial revolution in the United States took place principally in:

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the Northeast and the Midwest.

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Which of the following can be associated with the death of the Knights of Labor?

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Haymarket Square

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The extermination of the North American bison (buffalo) drastically undermined the livelihood of the Plains Indians.

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True

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On December 29, 1890, soldiers killed between 150 and 200 American Indians, mostly women and children, near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.

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True

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Which of the following best describes the ?0ÒGhost Dance?1Ó?

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feared by U.S. Army officials

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The 1887 Dawes Act:

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led to the loss of tribal lands and the erosion of Indian cultural traditions.

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By 1913, the United States produced how much of the world's industrial output?

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one-third

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By the early 1890s, a pension system for Union soldiers, their widows, and children consumed more than 40 percent of the federal budget.

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True

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During the second industrial revolution, wage labor became America's leading source of livelihood.

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True

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According to Social Darwinism, government should seek to help the poor, and build an activist state to regulate the nation's corporations.

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False

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American presidents during the Gilded Age exerted strong, effective, executive leadership.

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False

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The Democrats were the party of big government; the Republicans were the party of laissez-faire.

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False

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The term "Lochnerism" derived from the 1905 Supreme Court decision Lochner v. New York, in which the Court voided the state's law establishing a ten-hour day maximum for bakers.

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True

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The Electricity Building at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 astonished visitors and illustrated how electricity was changing the visual landscape.

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True

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Two of the Gilded Age's leading business figures were:

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Thomas A. Scott and Andrew Carnegie.

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During the two decades following the Civil War, which were known as the golden age of the cattle kingdom, cowboys were highly paid.

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False

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The most famous American Indian victory in American history took place in June 1876 when General George A. Custer and his 250 men perished.

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True

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By the 1880s, the labor situation was such that Texas cowboys even went on strike for higher pay.

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True

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By the 1880s, the labor situation was such that Texas cowboys even went on strike for higher pay.

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True

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At the Battle of Little Big Horn, General George Armstrong Custer's troops were victorious.

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False

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The Knights of Labor regarded inequalities of wealth and power as a growing threat to American democracy.

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True

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The first federal agency intended to regulate economic activity, and ensure that railroad rates were reasonable, and favoritism was avoided was:

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The Interstate Commerce Commission.

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During the second industrial revolution, wage labor became America's leading source of livelihood.

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True

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Which of the following was not a major reason for the decline and subjugation of the American Indian?

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Indifference to the advantages of guns and horses weakened Indian resistance to U.S. military power.

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With the mechanization of manufacture, skilled workers virtually disappeared from industrial America.

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False

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Wage reductions were commonplace during economic downturns.

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True

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The Democrats were the party of big government; the Republicans were the party of laissez-faire.

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False

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Between 1870 in 1920, how many immigrants arrived from overseas?

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25 million

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In 1869, President Ulysses S. Grant announced a new "peace policy" in the West.

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True

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Yale professor William Graham Sumner believed that America could achieve its ideals only with fair, progressive taxation.

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False

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The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which banned combinations and practices that restrain free trade, proved an immediate success, both for its clarity of language and ease of enforcement.

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False

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The term "Lochnerism" derived from the 1905 Supreme Court decision Lochner v. New York, in which the Court voided the state's law establishing a ten-hour day maximum for bakers.

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True

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"Vertical integration" is defined as one company controlling every phase of the business from raw materials to transportation, manufacturing, and distribution.

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True

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A significant amount of Mexican-era landholdings were made available for sale because United States courts only recognized land titles to individual plots of land.

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True

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The Social Gospel movement concentrated on attacking individual sins such as drinking and Sabbath-breaking and saw nothing immoral about the pursuit of riches.

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False

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The West was a remarkably homogeneous region—only in the twentieth century would it become ethnically diverse.

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False

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