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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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The major prophet of the New South gospel:

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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 of 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 seperate 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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dramatcally 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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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 NOT:

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work outside of 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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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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