Chpt 18 The industrial Age North South and West – Flashcards
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Housing for factory workers was so bad in the late 1800s, and city sanitation was so poor, that epidemics of _______ swept through whole cities
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Typhoid
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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
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All of the below A.Resulted from fears that increasing number of Chinese immigrants would depress wages. B. Banned immigration of chinese workers for ten years and prohibited those in the u.S. from becoming citizens c.Was renewed twice, but didnt prevent wealthy Chinese from Immigrating.
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The Dawes Act
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Divided tribal lands among native families into individual plots of land and put the land titles in a federal trust
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Streetcars made these possible
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Suburbs
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The only one of these forms of entertainment not deemed immoral or improper by the upper classes in the 1890s was
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Amusement Parks
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When General George Armstrong Custer attempted to protect white prospectors on scared Indian lands, Sioux and Cheyenne warriors annihilated them, led by
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sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
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All of the following is true about the rise and development of professional baseball from the 1870's through the first decade of the twentieth century, except
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It originated in college sports
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Between 1880 and 1920, approximately___ people came to America form other countries
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25 million
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Which of these was not a major reason for immigration to America in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
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American advertisements placed in Western European newspapers
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Which was true for most immigrants to America?
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All of the below A.Most had little knowledge of english, so they commanded only the lowest paying jobs. B.Most had lttle education. C.Most Remained close to the cities where they had landed the east Coast's large cities. D. They usually had little or no understanding of American culture..
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The tenement buildings in which immigrants often lived frequently lacked all of the following, except
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Violent crimes
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Henry Grady's Speech The New south could be classified as
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An attempt to rally the south to see their region linked not to the antebellum and slavery past but to the promises of the industrial revolution and the south's new spirit of enterprise.
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The major industries that developed in the south prior to 1900 included all of the following except
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Electricty
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The term "Gilded Age" was coined by
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Mark Twain
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It is true of the southern textile industry that
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It was the most successful area of industrial development for the south.
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Which of these was not a factor in the disfranchisement of southern blacks?
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Refusal to accept accomodationism.
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In the 1896 case of Plessy v Ferguson, the Supreme Court held segregation laws governing public accommodations such as railroads and public schools were constitutional based on the courts finding that
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Separate public facilities for each race had been provided and that no qualitative difference existed between the two racially based sets of public accommodations.
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In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, almost 2,000 black men in the south were
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lynched by white mobs
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Booker T.Washington's speech, now referred to as the Atlanta Compromise, suggested that
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Southern blacks should improve their economic standing through self help but remain separate from white society except to work together to reach common economic ground.
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Ida B. Wells- Barnett, and editor and writer, concentrated her reform efforts on the social issue of
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Lynching
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Disagreeing with Booker T Washington, W.E.B DuBois advised African Americans that
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Blacks should aggressively use political advocacy instruments to insist that federal and separation.
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All of the following is true about the national Association for the Advancement of colored people. (NAACP),except
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Its campaign for desegregation proved a quick and early success in the organization's history.
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In his book, The lost Cause, published just one year after the civil war ended, Edward Pollard argued that the real reason the civil war happened was
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Northern aggression against the south
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All of the following are true statements about the populist party except
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It embraced the gold standard
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The most prominent educational institution founded for African Americans was
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The Tuskegee Institute
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In the years following the civil war, those most interested in the newly opened lands in the west were
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Corporate interests with headquarters in northern cities
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The Homestead Act of 1862 provided a way for settlers to move west, occupy land for five years and then claim as their own a total of
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160 acres
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The final act in the U.s war against the plains Indians took place at
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Wounded Knee
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Congress awarded more than 200 million acres to investors who wanted to move westward and
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build railroads connecting the east and west
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The Grange was
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A national farm movement that sought political solutions to farmers economic problems
