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Conflict about the issues addressed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments

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Which factor led to the split in the woman's rights movement after the Civil War?

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The striking workers were demoralized and hopeless

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What was the situation facing striking workers when the 1892 Homestead strike ended?

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The pivotal power of the state in resolving labor conflict

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What was demonstrated by the success of the striking workers in the Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894?

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He sen National Guard troops to protect Carnegie's property

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How did the governor of Pennsylvania respond to the "battle of For Frick" at the Homestead steel mill in 1892?

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The union interfered with his company's profits.

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What gave rise to Andrew Carnegie's desire to crush the Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers even though he supported the idea of labor unions?

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Populists called for government ownership of the railroads and the telegraph system.

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How do historians assess the Populist movement of the late nineteenth century?

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How did the Filipino revolutionaries, who had greeted the U.S. troops as liberators, react after Spain formally ceded the Philippines to the United States in the Treaty of Paris (1898)?

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How did the Filipino revolutionaries, who had greeted the U.S. troops as liberators, react after Spain formally ceded the Philippines to the United States in the Treaty of Paris (1898)?

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Populists called for government ownership of the railroads and the telegraph system.

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How did late nineteenth century Populists propose to reverse powerful railroads' corruption of the political system?

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They made common cause with others, despite differences of race and occupation

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Which of the following describes the farmers who joined the Southern Farmers' Alliance in the late nineteenth century

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A series of anti-foreigner uprisings

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What was the outcome of increased missionary activity and Western enterprise in late-nineteenth-century China?

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more than 20 percent of the world's land

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Between 1870 and 1900, Europe's strongest powers assumed control of

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remarkably high

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Voter turnout in the 1896 presidential election was

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By replacing the conservative vice-presidential candidate

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How did Populists, who favored fusing with the Democrats in the 1896 presidential election, carry the day at the People's Party nominating convention?

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Free silver

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Which issue split both the Democratic and Republican parties in the presidential election of 1896?

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made a respectable showing by capturing more than a million votes.

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In the presidential election of 1892 the new Populist Party

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c. They fought for an expansive agenda of reform aimed at winning a range of rights for women.

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Which of the following offers an accurate assessment of the public careers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony?

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elections held in Colorado, Idaho, and Utah.

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By 1896, women had won the right to vote in

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generally not supported but was no longer considered a crazy idea.

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By 1890, when the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association united as the National American Woman Suffrage Association, suffrage for women was

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Farmers were very receptive to the Alliance message

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How did American farmers respond to the lecturers who traveled around the South recruiting for the Farmers' Alliance in the late nineteenth century?

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engaged in widespread political activity.

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The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) demonstrated that American women in the late nineteenth century were

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They raided and burned ranches and towns and then eluded government troops for five months

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How did a group of Apache renegades under the leadership of Geronimo defy the federal government in 1885?

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They fought alongside the U.S. Army against their old enemies, the Sioux.

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How did tribes such as the Crow and the Shoshoni avoid the fate of other tribes shipped to reservations?

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1934, when the United States stored Native Americans' right to own land communally

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Until what time did the Dawes Act, instituted in 1887, prohibit communal land ownership by Native Americans?

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The tribe had long regarded the area as sacred

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Why did the Dakota Sioux refuse to relinquish or sell their claim to the Black Hills?

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the largest mass execution in U.S. history.

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The Great Sioux Uprising of the 1862 (also known as the Santee Uprising) resulted in

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Supplied free meals

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What did Henry Miller and Charles Lux do to recruit laborers to work on their corporate ranches?

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fell, while the number of farms rose

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Between 1870 and 1900, the percentage of the American population living in rural areas

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The end of long cattle drives after 1880

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What factor forced Mexican cowboys, or vaqueros, to give up their trade?

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Fenced in their property

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What did large ranchers do to undermine free-range cattle ranching in the late nineteenth century?

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Cultivation of the land would bring more rainfall

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What inaccurate claim did nineteenth-century western boosters use to encourage settlement on the Great Plains?

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Territorial governors often accepted money from special-interest groups

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What explained the existence of political corruption in the West, which was so commonplace in the post-Civil War era?

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Utah lawmakers wanted to counter criticism of the Mormon practice of polygamy

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Which of the following reasons explains why the Utah territorial legislature approved the first universal woman suffrage act in the nation in 1870?

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They were subject to intense discrimination.

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What happened to the Californios after they were granted U.S. citizenship by the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

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find ways to adapt and preserve their culture

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Military intervention and the expansion of mining forced the Northern Paiute and Bannock Shoshoni along the Comstock to

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Chinese immigration to the United States

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What did the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 prohibit?

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An apocalypse that would restore old Indian ways

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What did participants in the Ghost Dance hope to bring about in the late nineteenth century?

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Supporting moral reforms such as laws requiring businesses to close on the Sabbath

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The Republican Party attracted Northern Protestants from the old-line denominations such as Presbyterians and Methodists using which tactic?

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Undertake philanthropic projects to benefit the poor.

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Andrew Carnegie's 1889 essay, "The Gospel of Wealth," gave what piece of advice to the rich about how they should live?

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It justified economic inequality and curbed social reform.

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What political purpose did the theory of social Darwinism serve in the late nineteenth century?

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Oligopoly

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What competitive system existed in the steel industry after the formation of U.S. Steel in 1901?

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U.S. Steel was part of an oligopoly that controlled the steel industry.

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Which of the following describes J. P. Morgan's U.S. Steel, the largest corporation in the world, in 1901?

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Bankers and industrialists

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Who controlled the electric and telephone industries pioneered by Thomas Alva Edison and Alexander Graham Bell soon after they were founded in the late nineteenth century?

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Journalist Ida Tarbell's serial "History of the Standard Oil Company"

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Which of the following shaped the public's harsh view of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller?

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Vertical integration put all aspects of the steel industry under his control

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What did Andrew Carnegie's vertical integration business model accomplish?

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Manufacture and trade are not the same thing.

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Which of the following summarizes the Supreme Court's position in its 1895 decision that crippled the Sherman Antitrust Act?

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The issuance of paper currency not tied to the gold supply

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What was the central issue addressed by the Greenback Labor Party?

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railroads that crossed state boundaries fell outside state jurisdiction

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States' attempts to regulate the railroads ultimately failed because the Supreme Court's 1886 Wabash v. Illinois decision ruled that

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Civil service reform

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The movement for which of the following causes gained momentum from the death of President Garfield in 1881?

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American government needed to be reformed.

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What did the late-nineteenth-century Republicans who called themselves Mugwumps believe?

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Increased awareness of southern racial violence

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What was the outcome of Ida B. Wells's 1890s campaign against lynching?

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was for men only

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The nineteenth-century concept of separate spheres held that political participation

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Northern financiers and industrialists manipulated prices

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What factor prevented the industrialized New South from becoming competitive with the North?

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Railroad building

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What occurrence was closely related to the development of the steel industry in the late nineteenth century?

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exercise the power of collective action.

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For many nineteenth-century American workers, the redefinition of labor as "machine tending" cultivated a sense of individual helplessness that caused workers to

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They saw themselves as superior to factory workers despite lower pay.

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How did department store saleswomen in the late nineteenth century believe they compared to factory workers of the period?

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Until she married

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How long did the average workingwoman in the 1880s and 1890s, who started working around age fifteen, expect to remain at her job?

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