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Which of the following properly assess the significance of the passage of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act in 1890

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The law established a precedent that the national government could regulate the economy in the interest of the public good

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What did Andrew Carnegie identify as society biggest challenge in the late nineteenth century in his 1889 essay The Gospel of Wealth

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wealth administration

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Credit Mobiler and the Whiskey Ring

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Were indicative of the corruption in the Grant administration

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Elk v. Wilkins

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agreed with lower court rulings that the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments did not apply to Indians

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Why was William Twee so popular with the city's immigrant poor

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He had provided food, fuel, and patronage to them in exchange for their votes

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In 1883, divided the nation into the four time zones still used today

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the major railroad companies

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Looking Backward was the first book to popularize socialist ideas for and American audience

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False

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The Haymaker Affair

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was provoked by the 1886 bombing at a Chicago labor rally

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Lochner v. New York voided a state law establishing ten hours per day, or sixty hours per week, as the maximum hours of work for bakers, claiming that infringed on individual freedom

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True

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The Ghost Dance

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Was a religious revitalization campaign among Indians, feared by whites

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Who insisted that freedom and spiritual self-development required and equalization of wealth and power and that unbridled competition mocked the Christian ideal of brotherhood

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Walter Rauschenbusch

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Which event marked the end of the Indian wars

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Battle of Wounded Knee

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Henry George rejected the traditional equation of liberty with

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ownership of land

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how did the legal instrument of contract help turn the philosophy of free labor into a tool for exploitation

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the idea of contract implied an agreement between free and equal individuals, but the reality of industrial employment was far different

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Elk v. Wilkins (1884) agreed with lower court rulings that the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments did not apply to Indians

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True

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One significant economic impact of the second industrial revolution was

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frequent and prolonged economic depressions

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Why did railroad companies and other businesses form "pools" during the American Gilded Age

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They hoped to escape the chaos of market forces by fixing prices with their competitiors

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Had the Teller Amendment been applied to the Philippines and Cuba, how would it have changed the Spanish-American war

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The United States would have been barred from annexing the archipelago

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The Women's Christian Temperance Union

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Moved from demanding prohibition to pushing for women's sufferage

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Which of the following provides evidence for the remarkable community organization efforts of the Populist Party

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its more than 1,00 local newspapers

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In contrast to the expansion of the 1890's, U.S. interest in Alaska originated in a desire for

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Territory

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How did racial segregation in the labor market affect African-American women

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A high percentage of black women worked for wages, typically in domestic services

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The election of 1896

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is sometimes called the first modern presidential campaign

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The new immigrants

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came from southern and eastern Europe

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Which statement about the 1896 election is false

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William Jennings Bryan lost because he supported the gold standard

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During the "Age of Empire", American racial attitudes

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had a global impact

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The Philippine War

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was far longer and bloodier than the Spanish-American War

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Chinese demands for equal rights forced the supreme court to define the reach of the fourteenth amendment

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true

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In Our Country from 1885, Josiah Strong predicted which of the following

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shortage of land

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Which statement about the People's Party is false

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It emerged as an urban, middle-class vehicle for social, economic, and political reform

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Founded in 1886, the American Federation of Labor

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Restricted membership to only skilled workers

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President William McKinley justified U.S. annexation of the Philippines on all of the following grounds except

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The United States needed to ensure that the Philippines became an independent democracy

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All of the following statements about Emilio Aguinaldo are true except

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Aguinaldo believed that Filipinos could only govern themselves with U.S. assistance

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Which of the following contradictions plagued progressive reforms' ideas on the political process

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They worked both to expand the electorate and shrink its size through other measures

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Socialism had made such inroads in popularity that by 1914 the U.S. Congress had a socialist representative

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ture

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A cause not widely championed by progressives was

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civil rights for blacks

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What was the most significant difference between Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay and Ellis Island in the New York harbor

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Angel's Island primary goal was to keep out unwanted Chinese immigrants, whereas Ellis Island sent relatively few immigrants back

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Most new immigrants arrived during the early years of the twentieth century

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lived in close-knit communities

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All of the following measures expanded democracy during the progressive era except

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Literacy tests and residency requirements

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The progressive interest in addressing political corruption had much to do with the success of

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Mass-circulation magazines

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Angel Island was where most Mexican immigrants entered the United States

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False

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Why did progressive reformers think they had much to learn from the Old World

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Germans had pioneered several measures of social legislation

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The word "Progressivism" came into common use around 1910

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as a was of describing a loosely defined political movement

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Which of the following is not a characteristic of Progressive reformers

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Progressives pursued radical alternatives to capitalism

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The writer whose work encouraged the passage of the Meat Inspection-Act

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Upton Sinclair

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In the early twentieth century, Angel Island in San Francisco Bay became known as the "Ellis Island of the West" and served as the main entry point for immigrants from

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Japan

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Once in office, Woodrow Wilson was a fierce trustbuster, dismantling more that twenty monopolies

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False

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Which was the Ellis Island of the West

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Angel Island

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The Progressive movement drew its strength from

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middle-class reformers

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Jane Adams

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advocated for the working poor

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