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What was the key difference between the Lincoln and Johnson plans for reconstruction?

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Unlike Lincoln's plan, Johnson's plan barred from political participation any ex-Confederate with taxable property worth $20,000 or more.

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Which statement accurately describes southern black education during Reconstruction?

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It advanced but remained quite limited.

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Why did the battle over black suffrage ultimately divide the women's rights movement?

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Some advocates of women's rights refused to support black suffrage without similar guarantees of woman suffrage.

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Which of the following was not one of the effects of emancipation on the black family in the years after the Civil War?

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The majority became single-parent families as men left their wives and set out to seek their fortunes.

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Which statement is not true about Andrew Johnson?

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He cared deeply about obtaining just treatment for the freedmen.

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What do Howard, Atlanta, and Fisk universities, and Hampton Institute have in common?

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They were all predominantly black institutions that were established in the years immediately following the Civil War.

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Which of the following was not a feature of Lincoln's "10 percent plan"?

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Southern plantations were to be confiscated and divided among the blacks who had formerly worked there as slaves.

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As part of their efforts to "Redeem" the South from Republican-centered Reconstruction, Southern Democrats divided into

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businessmen who envisioned an industrialized "New South" and Bourbons who represented the old planter elite.

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Which of the following Reconstruction laws is correctly paired with one of its provisions?

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The Reconstruction Act of 1867: invalidated state governments formed under Lincoln and Johnson.

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By the end of 1865, under President Johnson's reconstruction policies,

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Former Confederate officials and generals had been elected to serve in Congress.

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The cultural adaptation of Spanish-speaking Americans to Anglo society went relatively smoothly in

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Arizona and New Mexico

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The 19th century conservation movement

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attempted to educate the public about the destruction of the environment.

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Helen Hunt Jackson was among those Americans who were outraged by the federal government's violation of its Indian treaties and instead embraced a different approach to the Indians, which was

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To establish boarding schools that would teach them the ways of civilized society.

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Which of the following was not a reason the days of the open range and great cattle drives came to an end after the mid-1880s?

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The demand for beef declined as more people turned to cheaper food.

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Why were there violent clashes between cattle ranchers and farmers during the late 19th century?

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Farmers were using barbed wire to keep roving livestock out of their crops and ranchers wanted them to roam freely.

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The 1887 Dawes Severalty Act was designed to

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turn Indians into individual landowners and farmers and to undermine tribal bonds.

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Which of the following characterized frontier communities?

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cooperation among neighbors as a form of insurance in a rugged environment.

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What decision did Congress make in 1871 that would change the nature of relations between U.S. whites and Native Americans over land issues?

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It abolished treaty-making and replaced treaties with executive orders and acts of Congress.

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The 1898 Curtis Act

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dissolved the Indian Territory and abolished tribal governments.

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Horatio Alger influenced American society by

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propagating the "rags to riches" idea.

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Who supported the New South Creed?

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industrialists who believed that the South's natural resources and cheap labor made it a natural site for industrial development.

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What did Karl Marx argue?

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that capitalists would eventually bring about their own destruction by driving impoverished workers to revolt.

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Mary Harris Jones

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was a leader of the United Mine Workers of America who expanded its membership by stressing the need to fight for families.

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Who argued that "The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and it cannot be abrogated by man. We can only, by interfering with it, produce the survival of the unfittest."?

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William Graham Sumner

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Which of the following statements concerning the use of technology in industry in the second half of the nineteenth century is true?

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It made it possible for manufacturers to hire cheap unskilled or semiskilled labor.

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Besides the fact that its all-inclusive membership undermined its unity, why did the Knights of Labor collapse in the late 1880s?

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Workers became disillusioned when a series of unauthorized strikes failed.

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Which of the following was not one of the features that dominated the world of large-scale manufacturing after the Civil War?

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a new focus on energy conservation and finding alternatives to traditional fossil fuels.

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For a late-nineteenth-century unmarried working-class woman, why did amusement parks exert a powerful lure?

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They were places to meet friends, get away from parental supervision, and try out the latest dance steps.

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The Young Men's Christian Association and the Young Women's Christian Association were formed mainly to

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assist rural young men and women who migrated to the city

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How did the settlement-house movement distinguish itself from other urban social-welfare organizations?

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It insisted that charity workers live in slum neighborhoods to better understand the living conditions of the poor.

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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 nineteenth century?

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The growing popularity of catalog and department stores

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According to its defenders in the late nineteenth century, college football

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was a character-building sport that could function as a surrogate frontier experience in an increasingly urbanized society.

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Who was known as the king of ragtime?

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Scott Joplin

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What form of theatrical entertainment drew the largest audiences in late-nineteenth-century America?

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Vaudeville

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What was the goal of William S. Rainford's institutional church movement?

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To insist that downtown churches provide social services to immigrants such as recreational facilities and industrial training programs.

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During the late nineteenth century, the working-class saloon was not

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a meeting place for husbands and wives.

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Why did leisure-time activities become increasingly important to the working class during the late nineteenth century?

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Factory labor was growing more routine and impersonal, and social interactions at the workplace were increasingly inhibited.

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Which of the following is associated with the administration of Benjamin Harrison?

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A record-high tariff

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What did Coxey's Army want?

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a $500 million public-works program funded with paper money.

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What did the Pendleton Act do?

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It established a civil-service commission to prepare competitive exams for federal jobs.

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Why did the federal government during the late nineteenth century tend to ignore the social consequences of industrialization?

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Most American leaders, regardless of party, believed in the laissez-faire doctrine and did not support a large governmental role in the economy.

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Which of the following statements does not apply to the late nineteenth century relationship between the southern agrarian protest movement and southern attitudes toward blacks?

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The Populist movement was exclusively white because of exclusion provisions in their charters.

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How were blacks treated in the North during the late nineteenth century?

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Public opinion sanctioned widespread de facto discrimination.

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Who became famous for the "Cross of Gold" speech in the 1896 presidential election?

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William Jennings Bryan

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What did the Hepburn act of 1906 do?

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It empowered the Interstate Commerce Commission to set maximum railroad rates and to examine the financial records of railroad companies.

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Which of the following is not a true statement about the muckrakers?

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They got their nickname - muckrakers - from Woodrow Wilson, who criticized them for only focusing on the worst aspects of American life.

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What might be considered Theodore Roosevelt's most enduring domestic legacy?

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increasing public interest in environmental conservation.

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Which of the following amendments is not accurately defined?

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The Seventeenth Amendment allows the direct election of members of the House of Representatives

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Which of the following court case is correctly paired with its significance?

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Standard Oil Co. v. U.S.: Orders dissolution of Standard Oil.

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What happened to the 1916 Keating-Owen Act?

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The Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.

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Which of the following women is not properly paired with her reform activity?

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Emma Goldman: work-related diseases and health hazards

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Which of the following accurately describes Franz Ferdinand's importance?

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His assassination sparked World War I.

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What was the main issue in the 1916 presidential elections?

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the war in Europe.

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What did the members of the preparedness movement advocate?

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They supported rearmament and universal military training.

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The 1918 Influenza Pandemic

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killed as many as 50 to 100 million people worldwide.

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Which of the following was not one of the reasons that Woodrow Wilson's efforts at the Versailles Peace Conference were hampered even before he left the United States?

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The Germans had already rejected the Fourteen Points as a basis of negotiations.

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The Roosevelt Corollary was significant to U.S. relations with countries in the Western Hemisphere during the 20th century because it established the precedent that the United States

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had the right to intervene in Latin American countries.

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Which of the following is not true about the American economy during World War I?

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The civilian work force contracted as Americans joined the armed forces.

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Which of the following statements about the experiences of blacks during World War I is correct?

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Black soldiers served in segregated units.

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Why did temperance advocates receive a boost from World War I?

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They pointed out that the biggest breweries¾like Pabst, Schlitz, and Anheuser-Busch¾had German names. They said it was unpatriotic to use grain to manufacture liquor at a time when food had to be conserved. They said that beer was a German plot to undermine America's moral fiber and fighting qualities. Americans were able to view prohibition as a war measure.

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The case of Babe Ruth illustrates the power of publicity in the 1920s celebrity culture because

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in private he was a womanizing racist, but in the public eye, his 60 home runs in one year made him a hero.

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Which sector of the economy did not prosper in the 1920s?

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Agriculture

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During the 1920s, American foreign policy toward Europe was characterized by

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by independent internationalism with an occasional willingness to enter into arms control treaties.

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Which of the following statements concerning women in the work force in the 1920s is true?

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Women mostly received low-paying, unskilled jobs.

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What did Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, advocate?

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blacks should return to Africa.

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The term "welfare capitalism" refers to

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corporations providing employee benefits in the hope of preventing the establishment of unions.

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Which of the following statements concerning the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s is not true?

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The Klan dropped the elaborate rituals, titles, and costumes of the Reconstruction era in order to attract a mass membership

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The teaching of this subject in public schools was the key issue in the Scopes Trial.

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evolution.

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