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General Ulysses s grant proved to be a weak political leader because he

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had no political experience and was a poor judge of character

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in the aftermath of the civil war

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waste, speculation, and corruption afflicted both business and government

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in the late nineteenth century, those political candidates who campaigned by waving the bloody shirt were reminding voters

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of the treason of the confederate democrats during the civil war

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new yorks notoriously corrupt boss tweed was finally jailed under the pressure of

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the cartoons of the political satirist thomas nast

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the credit mobilier scandal involved

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the owners of the credit mobilizer distributed shares of the company's valuable stock to key congressman

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president Ulysses s grant was relected in 1872 because

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opponents chose a poor candidate for presidency

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a major cause of the panic that broke in 1873 was

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the construction of more factories than existing markets would bear

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those who enjoyed a successful political career in the post civil war decades were usually

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usually party loyalists

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during the gilded age, the democrats and republicans

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had few significant economic differences

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the presidential elections of the 1870s and 1880s

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aroused great interest among voters

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in religious and cultural terms, the republicans appealed especially to groups that derived their views from the

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puritan tradition of strict moral codes and government regulation of morality and society

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during the gilded age, the lifeblood of both the democratic and republican parties was

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was political patronage

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the major problem in the 1876 presidential election centered on

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the two sets of election returns submitted by Florida, south Carolina, and louisiana

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the compromise of 1877 resulted in

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the withdrawal of federal troops from the south

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in the 1896 case of plessy v. Ferguson, the supreme court rules that

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separate but equal facilities were constitutional

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at the end of reconstruction, southern whites disenfranchised African Americans using

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literacy requirements, poll taxes, economic intimidation, and the grandfather clause

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the legal codes that established the system of segregation were

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jim crow laws

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the presidency of Rutherford b. hayes began with

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scenes of class warfare

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the national railroad strike of 1877 started when

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the four largest railroads cut salaries by ten percent

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in the wake of anti-chinese violence in california, the united states congress

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passed a law prohibiting the immigration of chinese laborers to america

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abraham lincoln was the first president to be assassinated while in office, the second was

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james garfield

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the pendleton act required people applying for many federal government jobs to

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take a competitive examination

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the national government helped to finance transcontinental railroad construction in the late nineteenth century by providing railroad corporations with

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land grants and loans

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the greatest eonomic consequence of the transcontinental railroad network was that it

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united the nation into a single, integrated national market

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the united states changed to standard time zones when

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major rail lines decreed common fixed times so that they could keep their schedules to avoid wrecks

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the two industries that the transcontinental railroads most significantly expanded were

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mining and agriculture

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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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when Europeans owned or invested in private companies in the unites states, they generally

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let Americans manage business unless there was an economic crisis

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the american system of mass manufacture of standardizes, interchangeable parts provided strong incentives for united states capitalists to

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replace skilled labor with machinery

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two technological innovations that greatly expanded the industrial employment of women in the late nineteenth century were the

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typewriter and telephone

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one of the methods by which post civil war business leaders increased their profits was

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increased competition

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the organizational technique of vertical integration of all facets of an industruy, from raw material to final product, within a single company was pioneered by

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andrew carnegie

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john d Rockefellers organizational technique of horizontal integration involved

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forcing small competitors to assign stock to standard oil or lose their business

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the steel industry owed much to the inventive genius of

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henry bessemer

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americas first billion dollar corporation was

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united states steel

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the first major product of the oil industry was

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kerosene

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the gospel of wealth endorsed by andrew carnegie

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held that the wealthy should display moral responsibility in the use of their god given money

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believers in the doctrine of survival of the fittest l, like herbert spencer and william graham sumner, believed that

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the wealthy deserved their riches because they had demonstrated greater abilities

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the sherman anti trust act prohibited

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the formation of labor unions

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during the age of industrialization, the south

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remained overwhelmingly rural and agricultural

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the souths major attraction for potential investors was

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cheap labor

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the group whose lives were most dramatically altered by the new industrial age was

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women

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the image of the gibson girl represented a

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romantic ideal of the independent and athletic new women

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generally, the supreme court in the late nineteenth century interpreted the constitution in such a way as to favor

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corporations

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in its efforts on behalf of workers the national labor union won

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an eight hour day for governing workers

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the most effective and most enduring labor union of the post civil war period was the

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american federation of labor

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by 1900, american attitudes toward labor began to change as the public came to recognize the right of workers to bargain collectively and strike. Nenvertheless

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the vast majority of employers continued to fight organized labor

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by 1900, organized labor in america

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had begun to develop a more positive image with the public

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the people who found fault with the captains of industry mostly argues that these men

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built their corporate wealth and power by exploiting workers

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the major factor in drawing country people off the farms and into the big cities was the

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industrial jobs

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the development of electric trolleys in the late nineteenth century transformed the american city by

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enabling cities to build upward as well as outward

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the new immigrants who came to the united states after 1880

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creating distinct districts devoted to residential neighborhoods, commerce, and industry

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the European diaspora to the Americas, Africa, Australia, and elsewhere was largely a by product of the

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initial mass migration of European rural populations to that continents big cities

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in the new urban environment, most liberal prostestants

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rejected biblical literalism and adapted religious ideas to modern culture

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the Darwinian theory of organic evolution through natural selection affected american religion by

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creating a split between religious conservatives who denied evolution and accomodationists who supported it

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the post civil war era witnessed

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an increase in compulsory school attendance laws

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as a leader of the african american community, booker t washington

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advocated manual labor, industrial training, and did not challenge segregation

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that a talented tenth of american blacks should lead the race to full social and political equality with whites was the view of

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W.E.B. du bois with the talented tenth philosophy

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the morrill act of 1862

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granted public lands to states to support higher education

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black leader dr. W.E.B. du bois

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believed the intellectually gifted talented 1/10, demanded complete equality

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in the decades after the civil war, college, education for women

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became more common

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the public library movement across america was greatly aided by the generous financial support from

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andrew carnegie

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american newspapers expanded their circulation and public attention by

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printing sensational stories of sex and scandal

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by 1900, advocates of womens suffrage

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argues that the vote would enable women to extend their role as mothers and house makers to the public world

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one of the most important factors leading to an increased divorce rate in the late nineteenth century was the

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stress of urban life

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the national american women suffrage association

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limited its membership to whites

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the growing prohibition movement especially reflected the concerns of

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middle class women

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during industrialization, Americans increasingly

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shared a common and standard popular culture

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one of the early symbols of the dawning ear of consumerism in the urban america was

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the rise of large department stores

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most italian immigrants to the united states between 1880 and 1920 came to escape

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the poverty and backwardness of southern italy

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