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The "newness" of the New South was found primarily in its __________________.

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economy

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Which of the following became a center of southern steel production in the late 19th century?

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Birmingham

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___________ were the catalyst of southern industrial growth.

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Railroads

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Which of the following limited economic growth in the South?

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low wages

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The Coca-Cola company got its start in _________.

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Atlanta

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__________ dominated southern agriculture between 1877 and 1900.

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cotton

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By the 1890s, nearly ___________ percent of all white farmers in the US were tenants or sharecroppers.

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50

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The Southern Farmers' Alliance originated in _______ in the late 1870s.

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Texas

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Which of the following was an important difference between the Colored Farmers' Alliance and the Southern Farmers' Alliance?

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The Colored Farmers' Alliance had fewer landowners and more tenants and sharecroppers.

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What problem was the subtreasury plan meant to address?

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low cotton prices

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Why did antebellum movements make little headway in the South?

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they included abolitionism

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Most of the major reform efforts in the South in the late 19th century emanated from _____________.

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churches

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Which of the following was supported by Rebecca Felton?

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sex education

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The primary interest of most southern white womens' clubs was _________.

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the plight of young white working-class and farm women

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Race relations ___________ in the South between the end of Reconstruction and the early 1890s.

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remained remarkably fluid

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Ida B. Wells was best known for her efforts to combat ______________.

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lynchings

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Plessy v. Ferguson focused on __________.

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transportation segregation

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Jim Crow laws codified _________.

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segregation

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The legislative movement to reduce or eliminate the black vote in the South began in the ____________.

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1880s

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Which of the following was true of the South in the decades following after the Civil War?

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Southern cities grew faster than those in any other region of the country.

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The _________ party dominated southern politics after 1877.

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Democratic

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Captain A.F. Lewis played a key role in the development of the _____________ industry in Texas.

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oil

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Which of the following was a consequence of low wages in the South in the late 19th century?

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low consumer demand in the South

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Which of the following trends occurred in southern cotton cultivation in the late 19th century?

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the size of the annual cotton crop grew steadily

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By 1890, the Farmers' Alliance had more than ________ members.

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one million

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The Holiness disciples advocated ___________.

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simple dress and the avoidance of worldly amusements

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In 1892, Farmers alliance leaders merged their group with ___________.

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The People's Party

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Prior to founding a home mission in Atlanta, Laura Haygood served as a ________.

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missionary in China

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The Women's Christian Temperance Union framed temperance and the prohibition of alcohol as a _______ issue.

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family

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How was T. McCants Stewart, a black northern journalist, treated when he travelled south to visit South Carolina in 1885?

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He was treated much better than he expected.

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For the generation of white southerners who came of age in the 1880s and 1890s, _______ replaced the Yankees as the enemy.

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blacks

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White mobs lynched nearly _________ black southerners between 1882 and 1903.

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2,000

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Plessy v. Ferguson upheld legal segregation so long as ________.

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separate but equal facilities were offered to black people

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Booker T. Washington argued that African Americans should accommodate themselves to segregation and disfranchisement until _____________.

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they proved their economic worth to American society

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In the _______, the United States shifted from a technology borrower to a technology innovator.

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late nineteenth century

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Which of the following pioneered horizontal integration in the 1880s?

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The Standard Oil Company

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In the 1880s, factory workers typically worked ___________.

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10 hours a day, six days a week

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Which of the following is an accurate description of the typical wage-earning woman in 1900?

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unmarried and under the age of 25

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The Great Uprising of 1877 was a/an __________.

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railroad strike

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Which of the following was true of Chinese immigrants to the US in the second half of the 19th century?

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Most came from Canton in South China.

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Which of the following groups of immigrants was least likely to return to their homeland?

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Jews

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Between 1880 and 1900, most immigrants _____________.

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were young men

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The Japanese Association of America ___________.

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encouraged assimilation

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Which of the following was likely the most important factor of motivating the Great Migration?

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job opportunities

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How did urban growth in the US in the late 19th century differ from urban growth in Europe?

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Urban growth in the US was more evenly distributed among many cities.

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The ___________ emerged as the preferred place of residence for the urban middle class after 1870.

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suburb

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Which of the following groups became part of the urban middle class in the late 19th century?

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office workers

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Originating in the 1850s and 1860s, the _________ began to epitomize the bounty of new industrial capitalism.

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department store

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Which of the following was the leading middle-class spectator sport in the late 19th and early 20th century?

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baseball

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In which of the following areas did scientific theory precede technological innovation?

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electricity

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Elihu Thomson played a key role in the development of the ________ industry.

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light bulb

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Which of the following was a major advantage of the corporation over other forms of business organization?

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Officials and shareholders are not personally liable for its debts.

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Which of the following offers a good example of vertical integration?

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meatpacking industry

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Upton Sinclair's The jungle chronicled conditions in _________.

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meatpacking plants

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By 1910, women compromised __________ percent of all American college students.

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40

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Pogroms were government-sanctioned attacks on ________ Jews.

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Russian

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What sparked a surge of Japanese immigration to the United States in the late 1880s?

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land shortage

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Landsmanshaften _________________.

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helped provide jobs to new immigrants

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How did late-19th-century nativism differ from its antebellum predecessor?

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it targeted Catholics and Jews from southern and eastern Europe.

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How did the Immigration Restriction League propose to restrict immigration?

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by imposing a literacy test

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In most northern cities in 1900, black people typically worked as ________.

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common laborers

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By 1900, ______ percent of the nation's population lived in cities of more than 100,000 inhabitants.

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19

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What was the "White City"?

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the 1893 World's Fair

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In the 1850s and 1860s, most department store customers were__________.

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middle-class married women

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The most numerous amounts of Native Americans lived in the _____________.

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Great Plains

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Which of the following was true of all North American Indian tribes?

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They all emphasized community welfare over individual interest.

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In the 1830s, the federal government adopted the policy of ___________.

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separating whites and indians

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At Sand Creek, Colorado, John Chivington led a massacre of ________ men, women, and children.

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Cheyenne

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The Dawes Act ________.

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divided tribal lands among individual indians

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The discovery of Comstock Lode in _________ produced booming mining camps like Virginia City.

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Nevada

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Which of the following was true of the typical mining camp in the mid-nineteenth century?

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Their populations were overwhelmingly male.

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In 1870, more than _________ percent of Idaho's population was Chinese.

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25

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Which of the following characterized western mining in the 1890s?

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advanced technology

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Which of the following industries developed a pattern similar to mining?

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lumber

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The Chisholm Trail was established by __________.

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cattle ranchers

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How did community leaders in cow towns deal with prostitution and gambling?

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They sought to regulate them.

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By the early 1880s, ________ investors were prominent in the cattle industry.

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British

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Which of the following contributed to the expansion of the cattle industry in the second half of the nineteenth century?

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low initial investment costs

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__________ developed most of the tools, techniques, and trappings that characterized the cattle industry.

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Mexicans

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The Homestead Act offered ________ acres of free land to anyone who would live on the plot and farm it for 5 years.

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160

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Which of the following was an important limitation on the effectiveness of the Homestead Act?

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Much of the best land in the West was unavailable to potential homesteaders.

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Which of the following played the most important role of attracting people to the West?

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railroads

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Who were the "Exodusters"?

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African American settlers in Kansas and Nebraska

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The White Caps sought to defend the rights of _____ in the Southwest.

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Hispanics

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In the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, the US _________.

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abandoned military posts and trails in the Sioux territory

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The primary role of the US army in the west was to _____________.

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act as a military force

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Which of the following sparked a new round of warfare on the Great Plains in 1872?

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railroad construction

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The Wounded Knee Massacre took place in the context of government efforts to ____________.

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criminalize Indian religious practices

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The last major American gold rush came in 1874 in _____________.

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South Dakota

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The largest source of paid employment for women in mining towns was ____________.

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prostitution

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In 1885, Rock Springs, Wyoming, was the site of horrific _______ violence.

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anti-chinese

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The acquisition of timberlands, company railroads, and marketing offices by lumber companies is an example of ______________.

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vertical integration

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The cattle industry originated in ___________.

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southern Texas

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How was Wichita able to forgo general business taxes?

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by taxing prostitution and charging high fees for liquor licenses

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After the heyday of the cattle drive, most cow towns became___________.

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small farming towns

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Which of the following contributed to the collapse of the open-range cattle industry?

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overgrazing

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The Homestead Act reflected________.

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eastern conceptions of family farms

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_________ immigrants transformed California agriculture in the second half of the nineteenth century.

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Chinese

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Which of the following agricultural trends occurred in the early 1890s?

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wheat prices dropped substantially

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Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge was an ardent supporter of ____________.

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imperialism

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Social Darwinists believed that the nations of the world ____________.

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were locked in a competitive struggle for wealth and power

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Followers of the ideas of Alfred Mahan emphasized the importance of ________.

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naval power

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In the 1890s, most Americans favored _____________.

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economic expansion through foreign trade

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____________ supported the US annexation of Hawaii.

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Many Republicans

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_____________ was the last major European colony in Latin America.

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Cuba

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Which of the following increased the likelihood of war between US and Spain during the McKinley administration?

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the destruction of a US battleship

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The Teller Amendment ____________.

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promised Cuba self-government

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Commodore George Dewey led the US attack on _____________.

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the Philippines

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The decision to acquire _______ sparked a dramatic debate over the ratification of the Treaty of Paris.

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the Philippines

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Which of the following was true of the Philippine-American War?

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The US military forced Filipino civilians into concentration camps.

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The US open door policy was directed toward ________.

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China

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The Boxer Rebellion was a Chinese __________.

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nationalist movement

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Alarmed at the threat of ____________ expansion in Manchuria and Korea, Japan declared war in 1904.

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Russian

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The Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 and 1908 dealt with _________.

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Japanese immigration

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In the Insular Cases, the Supreme Court upheld the authority of Congress to establish an inferior status for ___________.

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Puerto Rico

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The Platt Amendment __________.

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put strict limits on Cuban independence

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In order to advance the goal of building a canal in Panama, the US ________.

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helped orchestrate a Panamanian uprising against Columbia.

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The Roosevelt Corollary was first used to justify US intervention in _________.

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the Dominican Republic

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_________ proposed the use of dollar diplomacy in Latin America.

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William Taft

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Which of the following was true of late nineteenth-century American imperialist thought?

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it often rested on an assumption of racial superiority

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Who wrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History?

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Alfred Mahan

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In 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry forced the ______ to open their ports to American products.

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Japanese

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William H. Seward, secretary of state under presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, was a ________.

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enthusiastic supporter of American expansion

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In 1895, the US yellow press helped stimulate ______.

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popular support for Cuban rebels

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Which of the following is true of McKinley's response to the revolution in Cuba?

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His personal preference was to resolve the conflict through diplomacy.

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Dewey's victory in the Philippines precipitated the annexation of ______.

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Hawaii

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Which of the following was responsible for the most American deaths during the invasion of Cuba?

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disease and accidents

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Emilio Aguinaldo led the ________ resistance to American rule.

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Filipino

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What was the intent of the US open door policy in China?

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to secure equal opportunity for trade and investment

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Why did American sympathies in the Russo-Japanese War lie with Japan?

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The Russians wanted to close Manchuria to foreign trade.

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In the two decades after the Spanish-American War, the United states intervened militarily in Latin America no fewer than _______ times to promote its own strategic and economic interests.

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20

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Under the terms of the Platt Amendment, ____________________.

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the United States had the right to intervene in Cuba to maintain order and preserve Cuban independence

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Which of the following was true of dollar diplomacy?

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It was unpopular in Latin America.

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_____________ was the most interventionist president in American history.

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Woodrow Wilson

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The progressive movement had its roots in the events of the __________.

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1890s

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Events at the Triangle Shirtwaist company in 1911 illustrated __________.

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the dangers of the industrial workplace

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Washington Gladden was best known for his promotion of __________.

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the Social Gospel Movement

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The Octopus, by Frank Norris, dramatized _________.

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the power of railroads

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____________ was America's most prominent socialist in the early 20th century.

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Eugene V. Debs

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The ______ Amendment authorized a federal income tax.

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16th

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Settlement houses were generally led and staffed by __________.

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middle-class young women

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In Women and Economics, Charlotte Perkins Gillman promoted the idea of ________.

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communally organized society

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The ______ Amendment made prohibition the law of the land.

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18th

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Ida Wells-Barnett was an African American _________.

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journalist

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Most women progressives viewed _______ as the key issue of the period.

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suffrage

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Carrie Chapman Catt was a leader in the fight for ________.

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votes for women

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The Australian ballot ________.

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provided secret voting

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Which of the following was a consequence of the progressive reform of the electoral progress?

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The influence of political parties was weakened.

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Elected governor in 1900, "Fighting Bob" La Follette turned ______ into the "labratory of democracy".

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Wisconsin

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How did Theodore Roosevelt differ from the Gilded Age presidents?

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He had an expansive view of the power of the president.

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How did Roosevelt propose to end the 1902 United Mine Workers Strike?

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by setting up an arbitration commission

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Gifford Pinchot played a key role in Roosevelt's efforts to ________.

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advance a conservationist agenda

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Which of the following would Theodore Roosevelt have agreed?

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The federal government should regulate business activity.

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In 1912, Roosevelt ran for president as the nominee of the _____ party.

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Progressive

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_______ promoted a program called the New Freedom during the 1912 election.

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Woodrow Wilson

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Woodrow Wilson won in 1912 with _______ percent of the popular vote.

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42

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The Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act _______.

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substantially lowered import tariffs

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The Federal Reserve Act _________.

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created 12 regional banks

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Louis Brandeis _______.

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was the first Jew appointed to the Supreme Court

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Which of the following surged between 1897 and 1903?

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mergers between large companies

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In Applied Sociology, Leste Ward called for social progress through _________.

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rational planning and government intervention

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How did Frederick Taylor propose to increase industrial efficiency?

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by imposing work routines, speedups, and mechanization

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Early 20th century _________ were largely modeled on the institution founded by Jane Addams in Chicago in 1889.

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settlement houses

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In Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court ruled that laws regulating ______ were constitutional.

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hours and working conditions of women

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Margaret Sanger made the struggle for _________ her personal crusade.

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reproductive rights

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The ratification of the 19th Amendment was the crowning achievement of the early 20th century _________ movement.

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woman suffrage

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Electoral reforms in the North often weakened the political power of ________.

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ethnic and working-class Americans

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The initiative and referendum were intended to give more direct political power to _________.

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the people

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Which of the following was true of TR political career prior to 1900?

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He served as the assistant secretary of the Navy.

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With which of the following statements would have TR agreed?

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The president can do anything to meet national needs that the Constitution does not specifically prohibit.

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Which of the following characterizes Taft?

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He was TR's handpicked successor as president.

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The 1912 election pitted TR's New Nationalism against Wilson's ________.

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New Freedom

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What steps did Wilson take in order to secure victory in the 1916 election?

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He reversed his position on a number of social and economic reform measures.

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How did Wilson limit the effectiveness of the Federal Trade Commission?

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He appointed conservatives to lead it.

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The Central Powers included Germany, Turkey, Bulgaria, and ___________.

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Austria

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Which of the following best characterizes American public opinion at the outset of WWI?

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Most Americans believed that the US had no vital interests in the war and they should stay out of it.

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Why did Wilson end the ban on loans from American banks to the Allies?

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Allied war orders were of great importance to the American economy.

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Which of the following refused to respect the 1909 Declaration of London?

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Britain

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In the Zimmermann Note, Germany promised _______ American territory in exchange for an alliance.

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Mexico

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Under the leadership of Bernard Baruch, the war industries board _________.

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guaranteed huge corporate profits

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Which of the following was true of labor unions during the war?

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Their membership increased sharply.

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In response to labor shortages, public officials and private employers called on ______ to join the workforce.

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women

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How were Germans portrayed in American propaganda?

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as monsters

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The Sedition Act of 1918 provided severe penalties for _________.

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speaking against the draft

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The Selective Service Act of 1917 ________.

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established conscription

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Most women who served in the Great War were _______.

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nurses

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In July 1918, Wilson agreed to commit 15,000 American troops to intervene in __________.

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Russia

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What was the outcome of the Battle of the Argonne Forest?

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The massive Allied armed eventually overwhelmed the Germans.

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Wilson's fourteenth and most important point proposed _______.

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the creation of a league of nations

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Which of the following was a member of the Irreconcilables?

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Robert La Follette

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How did Wilson respond to congressional opposition to the Treaty of Versailles?

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He refused to compromise and turned to the public for support.

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The 1919 influenza epidemic killed approximately ______ Americans.

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700,000

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Which of the following best characterizes the period of economic readjustment that followed WWI?

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The Wilson administration had no plans for an orderly reconversion of the wartime economy, and chaos ensued.

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Wilson feared that _______ would serve as the "greatest medium in conveying bolshevism to America."

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returning African American troops

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At the outset of WWI, the Allies included Britain, France, and __________.

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Russia

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Which of the following government officials was genuinely neutral during the early years of WWI?

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William Jennings Bryan

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How did Germany respond to the British naval blockade?

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with submarine warfare

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Under the terms of the Sussex Pledge, Germany promised _______.

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not to sink merchant ships without warning

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In 1916, the Republicans chose _____ as their nominee.

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Charles Hughes

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The new agencies created to regulate the wartime economy were supervised by the ______.

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Council of National Defense

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Which of the following was the most important factor spurring the migration of black people from the rural south during the war?

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demand for industrial labor

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The Committee on Public information sought to _________.

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manipulate public opinion

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Which of the following was true of African American's participation in WWI?

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The US military was rigidly segregated.

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Full-scale American intervention on the Western front began in the ___________.

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late spring of 1918

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Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, _______.

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Germany had to accept sole responsibility for starting the war

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Article Ten of the League of Nations' Covenant bound the member nations to __________.

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guarantee each others independence

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The Reservationists were led by __________.

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Henry Cabot Lodge

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The greatest strike of 1919 involved the American Federation of Labor's attempt to organize ________.

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steelworkers

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In 1919, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and J. Edgar Hoover launched a war on ________.

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political radicalism

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The ________ industry drove the economy of the 1920s.

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automobile

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By 1929, the nation's largest corporations controlled nearly _____ percent of all nonbanking corporate wealth.

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50

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What was the goal of the open-shop campaign?

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to break union-shop contracts

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Welfare capitalism was designed as an alternative to _______.

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unions

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Which of the following industries did poorly in the 1920s?

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coal mining

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Warren Harding appointed _______ as Secretary of Commerce.

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Herbert Hoover

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As secretary of the treasury, Andrew Mellon pressed Congress to ________.

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reduce taxes on the wealthy

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Which of the following was a consequence of the tariff of 1922?

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It permitted some American manufacturers to raise their prices.

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Which of the following best characterizes the Supreme Court in the 1920s?

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pro-business

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Exposed for his role in the Teapot Dome Scandal, _______ became the first cabinet officer in history to go to jail.

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Albert Fall

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In absolute terms, cities in the ______ grew the most during this period.

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Northeast and upper Midwest

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African Americans who participated in the Great Migration were responding chiefly to _________.

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the opportunity for economic improvement

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More than ________ African Americans moved to northern cities in the 1920s.

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1.5 million

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Fifty thousand ______ settled in New York in the 1920s, mainly East Harlem, where they found low-paying jobs.

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Puerto Ricans

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Which of the following is true of modern suburbs of the 1920s?

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The modern suburb was made possible by the automobile.

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President Coolidge considered ________ "the most potent influence in adopting and changing the habits and modes of life... of the whole nation."

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advertising

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Advertisers attempted to redefine the housewife's role as primarily that of a ________.

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consumer

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Sinclair Lewis ridiculed _______ in Babbitt.

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middle-class society

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The National Origins Act of 1924 _______.

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set immigration quotas by nationality

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Admitting only _____, the 1920s Klan embodied the fears of a traditional culture threatened by social change.

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native-born white Protestants

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Which of the following was the world's dominant economic power in the 1920s?

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The US

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American bankers extended large loans to Germany, which used the money to ________.

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pay reparations to Britain and France

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The Kellogg-Briand Pact ________.

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renounced aggression and outlawed war

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During the 1920s, the US ______ in Latin America.

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retreated from gunboat diplomacy

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Which of the following was true of Democratic presidential nominee Alfred E Smith?

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He was an opponent of Prohibition.

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The US more than ______ its capacity to generate electricity during the 1920s.

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doubled

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What role did the government play in helping establish the aviation industry?

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It subsidized commercial air service by providing air mail contracts to private carriers.

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The auto industry in the 1920s is a good example of _______.

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oligopoly

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Yellow-dog contracts required workers to reject _______ if they wanted to keep their jobs.

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unions

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Which of the following adjectives best characterizes Warren Harding?

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genial

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Under Coolidge, federal policies were ______.

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closely aligned with business interests

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The decline in ______ helped create economic opportunities for African Americans.

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European immigration

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________'s The New Negro celebrated a spirit of creativity that resonated with artists and writers in Harlem.

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Alain Locke

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La Orden de Hijos de America, organized in San Antonio in 1921, campaigned against ______.

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inequities in the school and jury system

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Which of the following played a key role in the spread of jazz music across the nation?

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the Great Migration

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_______ had the largest Klan organization in the nation with 50,000 members.

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Chicago

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The Volstead Act established the means by which the _____ Amendment was enforced.

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18th

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The Scopes Trial centered on the issue of ______.

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Darwinian evolution

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The United Fruit Company dominated a number of national economies in _______.

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Central America

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The Clark Memorandum rejected ______.

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Roosevelt Corollary

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Which of the following prolonged the depression?

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The Federal Reserve Board restricted the nation's money supply.

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In 1932, a Howard University sociologist described which group as being particularly affected by the depression, since they were "the last to be hired and the first to be fired."?

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African Americans

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By 1932, ___ percent of the American labor force was out of work.

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25

question

Which of the following was true of American wage-earners in 1932?

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Women were less likely than men to be fired.

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What tactic did the Farmers' Holiday Association adopt in effort to relieve the plight of its members?

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It blocked the shipment of produce to urban markets.

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What was the outcome of the 1932 election?

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FDR won a landslide victory over Hoover.

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As governor of New York, FDR had shown his support for _____.

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social welfare

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Why did Hoover turn to business leaders as a remedy for the Great Depression?

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He was opposed to government interference in the economy.

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Hoover was committed to _______.

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voluntarism

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Which of the following groups organized the Bonus Army?

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WWI veterans

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was created to _______.

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regulate the stock market

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Which New Deal program excluded women from participation?

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Civilian Conservation Corps

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The Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) subsidized farmers who agreed to ________.

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restrict production

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The symobol of the National Recovery Administration (NRA) was a _____.

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blue eagle

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Which of the following benefitted the most from the NRA?

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big business

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What was the historical significance of labor actions at the GM plant in Flint, MI in 1937?

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The employees won their strike by using the unique tactic of the sit-down strike.

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The Social Security Act excluded ______.

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domestic servants

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Before its end in 1943, the _____ created 9 million jobs.

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Works Progress Administration (WPA)

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What was the outcome of the 1936 election?

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FDR won in a major landslide and Democrats gained large majorities in Congress.

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Mary McLeod Bethune was _____.

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the highest ranking black woman in the Roosevelt administration

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How did FDR propose to change the Supreme Court in 1937?

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He wanted to name a new justice for each one serving past 70.

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What led to the sharp recession that began in August 1937?

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a cut in federal spending

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In 1937 and 1938, conservatives in Congress ____.

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blocked most of FDR's reforms

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How did Congress respond to FDR's proposed changes to the Supreme Court?

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it rejected the plan

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The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 established _______.

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the first national minimum wage

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In the early years of the Roosevelt presidency, foreign policy initiatives focused on _______.

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improving the American economy

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In Latin America, FDR extended Hoover's _________ policy.

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Good Neighbor

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As the leader of the Nazis, Hitler established a ______ government in Germany.

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fascist

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Congressional action in the 1930s aimed to _____.

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keep the US from taking sides in the mounting European crisis

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How did the US government respond to Kristallnacht?

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It recalled its ambassador from Berlin.

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Which of the following is true?

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The Wall Street crash marked the beginning of the depression, but did not cause it.

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By 1929, the 200 largest American corporations controlled _____ percent of the nation's corporate wealth.

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50

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How did the depression effect family life in the early 1930s?

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desertion of spouses increased

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According to Hoover, "the only trouble with capitalism is _____."

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capitalists

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As the Great Depression worsened, Hoover _____.

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adopted more activist policies

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By the time FDR won the 1932 election and the time he took office in 1933, _____.

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the nation was hit by a banking crisis

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Upon becoming president, what did FDR tackle first?

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the banking crisis

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Which of the following was one of the four individuals who demanded government action to assist groups neglected by the New Deal?

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Francis Townshend

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Which of the following provides evidence of the conservative nature of the Social Security Act?

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its lack of health insurance

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The Revenue Act of 1935 provided for _____.

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graduated income taxes

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When questioned about the inclusion of programs for this group in the Works Progress Administration (WPA), FDR responded, "Why not? They are human beings. They have to live."

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artists

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Entering into his second term, FDR regarded _____ as his most dangerous adversary.

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the Supreme Court

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How did FDR attempt to influence the outcome of the 1938 congressional elections?

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He appealed directly to the public.

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After annexing ____, Hitler demanded parts of Czechoslovakia.

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Austria

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Who did Hitler blame for most of Germany's problems?

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the Jews

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Which of the following sought to create a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere?

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Japan

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The axis powers included _________.

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Germany, Italy, and Japan

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WWII in Europe began in 1939 with the German invasion of ________.

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Poland

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In 1940, the US traded 50 destroyers for _______.

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the use of military bases in British territories

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Which of the following escaped undamaged after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?

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US aircraft carriers

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WWII was fought on ____ distinct fronts.

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6

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The turning point of the war in Europe came at ________.

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Stalingrad

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Soviet success from 1942 on was made possible by ______.

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the revival of Soviet military manufacturing

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Which of the following tipped the balance of power in the Allies favor in the Battle of the Atlantic?

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radar and sonar

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At the Battle of the Coral Sea, US aircraft carriers halted a Japanese thrust toward _______.

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Australia

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The Office of Price Administration fought ______ with price controls and rationing.

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inflation

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America per capita income _______ during WWII.

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doubled

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Which of the following is true of radar?

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Its development was the Allies most expensive scientific effort during the war.

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The Manhattan Project led to the development of the _______.

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the atomic bomb

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Why did the Army Signal Corps decide to use Navajo language to transmit vital information?

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The Navajo had not been studied by German anthropologists.

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How did WWII affect US marriage rate?

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The war years brought together 1.2 million "extra" marriages, compared to the rate for the period 1920-1939.

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Women held _____ percent of manufacturing jobs during WWII.

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33

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What was the purpose of the bracero program?

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to recruit Mexican workers to come to the US

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Executive Order 8802 ______.

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barred racial discrimination in defense contracts

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In Korematsu vs. US, the Supreme Court ruled that ______.

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the internment of Japanese Americans was constitutional

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The unanswered military question of 1942 and 1943 was when the US and Great Britain would ______.

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open a second front against Germany in France

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The Battle of ______ marked the end of the last great German offensive.

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Kursk

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Operation OVERLORD was the codename for the Allied campaign in _______.

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northern France

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The "final solution" to what Hitler thought was the "Jewish problem" was ________.

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mass murder

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The most important American goal at the Yalta conference was to _____.

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enlist the Soviet Union in finishing off the Pacific War

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Which of the following was a root cause of WWII?

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the economic crisis of the 1930s

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Hitler's greatest advantage at the start of WWII was ________.

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the ability to attack when and where he chose

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_______ was a leading spokesman for the America First Committee.

answer

Charles Lindbergh

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Which of the following was true of the Atlantic Charter?

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It provided justification for American involvement in the war.

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The US decision to build a "two-ocean navy" antagonized _______.

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Japan

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Why did the Allies decide to defeat Germany first?

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Germany was far stronger than Japan.

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The Battle of Midway _______.

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ended Japanese efforts to expand in the Pacific

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American aircraft workers were _____ as productive as their German counterparts.

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twice

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Which of the following was true of the experience of African Americans in the military during WWII?

answer

They served in segregated units.

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The initial military draft targeted _______.

answer

single men

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A. Philip Randolph put pressure on FDR administration to end discrimination in the defense industry by ______.

answer

planning a march on Washington

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Japanese Americans living in ________ were primary targets for internment.

answer

California

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At Tehran, the US and Britain promised to invade ____ within 6 months.

answer

France

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The Allied campaign in Italy was ____.

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slow and costly

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Which of the following countries had the most combined military and civilian deaths after WWII?

answer

The Soviet Union

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Returning veterans came home to ______.

answer

food shortages

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The Employment Act of 1946 defined _____ as a national goal.

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economic growth

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The Taft-Hartly Act targeted ______.

answer

organized labor

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The Serviceman's Readjustment Act _______.

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helped veterans buy homes

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By 1950, the median age at which women married was _____.

answer

20

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In 1948, Truman tried to position himself _______.

answer

in the political center

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Who was the Dixiecrat candidate for president in 1948?

answer

Strom Thurmond

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Which of the following undermined Tom Dewey's campaign for president?

answer

the results of the 80th Congress

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Who carried out a "whistle stop" campaign in 1948?

answer

Harry Truman

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Which of the following was true of Truman's Fair Deal?

answer

It promised to extend the New Deal.

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In 1947, the US and Soviet Union came close to war over the city of _________.

answer

Berlin

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The Yalta Conference of February 1945 ________.

answer

marked out rough spheres of influence

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Which of the following was true of the Marshall Plan?

answer

The Soviet Union and Eastern European nations were invited to participate.

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In early 1948, the Soviets targeted _____ for political takeover.

answer

Czechoslovakia

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The Soviets responded to the establishment of NATO with the creation of ______.

answer

the Warsaw Pact

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The second nation to become a nuclear power was ________.

answer

the Soviet Union

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In 1949, Jiang Jieshi's _______ Nationalist regime collapsed.

answer

Chinese

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Which of the following was true of NSC-68?

answer

It called for massive increases in defense spending.

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From 1910-1945, Korea was an oppressed colony of _______.

answer

Japan

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Which of the following slowed truce talks over Korea?

answer

the status of Chinese prisoners of war

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The US Communist Party was _____ as a political factor after WWII.

answer

rapidly declining

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The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) took a particular interest in ______.

answer

Hollywood

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The McCarran Committee targeted diplomats, professors, school teachers, and ________.

answer

labor union leaders

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Convicted in 1951 of conspiring to commit espionage, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were ______.

answer

sent to the electric chair

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In 1951, Senator Joseph McCarthy called _______ an agent of Communism.

answer

George Marshall

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Which of the following contributed to the wave of strikes in 1945 and 1946?

answer

inflation

question

Which of the following helped prevent mass unemployment at the end of WWII?

answer

pent-up demand

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William Levitt is best known for _______.

answer

building small, inexpensive houses

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In 1948, the American Progressive Party nominated _______.

answer

Henry Wallace

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Truman used confrontation with ____ to rally voters who had supported the New Deal.

answer

Congress

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When Congress revitalized the weak Social Security Program in 1950, most of the new coverage went to _______.

answer

rural and small-town people

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The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank _______.

answer

reinforced economic influence of the US

question

George Kennan's "long telegram" depicted _____ as an expansionist power bent on global domination.

answer

the Soviet Union

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How did the US respond to the Berlin Blockade?

answer

It airlifted supplies into Berlin.

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The first hydrogen bomb tested by the US released _____ times as much energy as the Hiroshima bomb.

answer

100

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Who did the Republicans blame for Mao's victory in the Chinese Civil War?

answer

President Truman

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How did the Korean War begin?

answer

with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea

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The "second red scare" was an assault on ______ that stretched from the mid 1940s to the mid 1950s.

answer

civil liberties

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Executive order 9835 initiated a _______.

answer

loyalty program for federal employees

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Senator McCarthy burst into a national prominence with a speech in _______.

answer

Wheeling, West Virginia

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