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From the end of the Civil War to the turn of the century

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the value of manufactures increased sixfold.

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A transcontinental railroad was not built before the Civil War because

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North-South sectional differences prevented Congress from selecting a route

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Most workers on the Central Pacific Railroad crews were:

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Chinese

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The transcontinental railroads were financed by:

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all of the above (private companies, federal land grants, loans and tax breaks from federal, state, and local governments

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Jay Gould was

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the most notorious of the railroad "robber barons."

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John D. Rockefeller:

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became a leading philanthropist

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The Molly Maguires

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aimed to right perceived wrongs against Irish coal workers.

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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was provoked by

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wage cuts that followed a depression.

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Tension between labor and management in the late nineteenth century:

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helped generate interest in the doctrine of anarchism

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The Knights of Labor:

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sought to organize all types of workers

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The greatest growth of the Knights of Labor took place

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in the mid-1880s, when the union had several successful strikes against the railroads.

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The Haymarket Affair:

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was blamed, probably unfairly, on seven anarchist leaders.

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The American Federation of Labor

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focused on concrete economic gains rather than on social or political reforms.

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Violence erupted at the Homestead Works in 1892 when

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Henry Frick tried to break a strike by bringing in Pinkertons.

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The Homestead Strike

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took place in Pittsburgh.

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President Grover Cleveland's response to the Pullman Strike was to:

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send federal troops to keep the trains running

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The Pullman Strike ended:

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after mail cars were attached to Pullman cars.

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Which of the following statements about the Socialist Party of America is not true?

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It elected mayors in 33 American cities.

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The IWW was effectively destroyed when it:

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opposed American involvement in World War 1

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Membership in the American Federation of Labor at first

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grew slowly

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Which area had the greatest proportion of people living in cities

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the pacific coast

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Urban political bosses

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often were the biggest source of assistance for city dwellers

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After 1890 most immigrants were

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Jews and Catholics

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Ellis Island was located right outside the port of:

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New York City

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Nativism led to

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a movement to exclude illiterates

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Herbert Spencer

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Coined the phrase "survival of the fittest"

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Vauldville provided:

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variety shows for men, women, and children.

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All of the following forms of public entertainment were accessible to women except:

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saloons

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Women's access to higher education:

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improved shortly after the Civil War.

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Mark Twain:

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was the first great writer from west of the Appalachians.

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A strict Social Darwinist would object to all the following except

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a governmental policy of laissez-faire toward business.

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Advocates of the social gospel:

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believed Christians should love their neighbors and address social problems.

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The main idea of Reform Darwinism was that

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cooperation, not competition, would better promote progress.

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The poor were helped by

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urban machines

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Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, and Jack London belonged to a literary movement called:

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naturalism

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Progress and Poverty argued that

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nobody had the right to the value accrued from the land.

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The New York Consumers League

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sought to make the public aware of degrading labor conditions.

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Chicagos hull house was designed to assist

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slum dwellers

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In 1869 the women's movement split on the issue of:

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whether or not the movement should concentrate on female suffrage to the exclusion of other feminist causes.

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Which of the following statements best describes the status of women's suffrage in the early twentieth century?

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Several states, all in the West, had adopted women's suffrage.

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When Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner labeled the post-Civil War era the "Gilded Age" they implied that it was characterized by:

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widespread greed and corruption.

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One issue on which there were clear-cut divisions between Democrats and Republicans in the Gilded Age was:

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the tariff

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Of the following, which would most likely have been a Gilded Age Republican?

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a prohibitionist

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Which of the following best describes Rutherford B. Hayes and civil service reform?

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Hayes was unable to get civil service legislation through Congress, but he set up his own rules for merit appointments.

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Chester A. Arthur was

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connected with the New York Customs House corruption before he became president.

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The Civil Service Reform bill

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provided for appointment to a number of government jobs on the basis of competitive exams.

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A reference in the 1884 presidential campaign to "rum, Romanism, and rebellion":

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(was especially offensive to Irish-Americans, may have cost the rupublican the race, was attributed to a Protestant minister

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Grover Cleveland:

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was the first Democrat elected to the White House since the Civil War.

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Grover Cleveland showed political courage when he vetoed legislation favored by

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Union veterans.

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One major argument Cleveland made for reducing tariffs was that:

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the federal government had a surplus of revenue.

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The Interstate Commerce Act:

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was created to regulate railroads.

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Benjamin Harrison was elected president:

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although he received fewer popular votes than the loser, Grover Cleveland.

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During the first two years of President Benjamin Harrison's term

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Congress passed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, the pension rolls of Union veterans greatly increased., Republicans controlled both the White House and Congress.

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Which of the following groups did not support increased coinage of silver?

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elite business leaders

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Following the 1893 depression, Coxey's Army:

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demanded government jobs for the unemployed.

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In the presidential election of 1896, William Jennings Bryan

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is correctly described by all the above statements

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The so-called crime of '73 referred to:

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the congressional decision to drop the provision for the coinage of silver.

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The subtreasury plan

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allowed farmers to secure low-interest government loans

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All the following were included in the 1892 Omaha Platform of the People's party except

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halting the free and unlimited coinage of silver.

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In the presidential election of 1892, the Populist candidate

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won about a million votes

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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!" This statement was made by

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william jennings bryan

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Americans felt secure after the Civil War because:

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wide oceans acted as buffers on each side

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Alfred Thayer Mahan:

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argued that sea power was essential to national greatness.

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The United States wanted to acquire some control over the Pacific island groups of Samoa and Hawaii

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because the islands offered strategic locations for coaling stations and trading posts.

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Queen Liliuokalani

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tried to reclaim power over Hawaii

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The term yellow journalism arose from:

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the circulation war between two New York newspapers.

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The de Lôme letter

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referred to President McKinley as weak and a bidder for the administration of the crowd.

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The battleship Maine

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became a battle cry in the Spanish-American War, although blame for the explosion could never be fixed.

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The Teller Amendment:

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disclaimed any American designs on Cuban territory.

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The first major victory for American forces in the Spanish-American War was at

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Manila Bay

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In the Spanish-American War

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more American soldiers died from disease than from battle

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During the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt:

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took part in the land fighting in Cuba.

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The Secretary of State who proclaimed the Open-Door Policy toward China was

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John Hay

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The Open-Door Policy, if rooted in the self-interest of American businessmen and their desire to exploit Chinese markets, also:

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tapped the deep-seated sympathies of those who opposed imperialism.

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The treaty ending the Spanish-American War:

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provided for Hawaiian autonomy.

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Emilio Aguinaldo:

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was the Filipino rebel leader.

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William McKinley was assassinated

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by Leon Czolgosz.

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The publisher of the New York Journal was:

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William Randolph Hearst.

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The Platt Amendment:

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sharply restricted the independence of Cuba's new government.

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Roosevelt's intervention in the Russo-Japanese War and the Moroccan dispute:

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won him the Nobel Peace Prize of 1906.

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Who was president when the United States acquired the right to build a canal across Panama?

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Teddy Rosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt:

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loved the outdoors and was, for a brief time, a cowboy.

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When the United States and Colombia could not agree on a price for the Canal Zone:

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the Colombian province of Panama rebelled against Colombia.

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The Roosevelt Corollary:

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stated that the United States could intervene in the affairs of Western Hemisphere countries to forestall the intervention of other powers.

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As a result of Japan's show of strength in the Russo-Japanese War

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Americans began to doubt the security of the Philippines.

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The Seventeenth Amendment:

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authorized the popular election of senators.

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The commission plan of city government was first adopted in:

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Galveston

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Which of the following best describes the method used by most progressives to solve the problem of economic power and its abuses?

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regulate big business

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The muckrakers saw their primary objective as:

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Exposing social problems to the public

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Progressives concerned with social justice called for:

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All of the above

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National Child Labor Committee pushed:

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for laws banning the widespread employment of young children.

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The Hepburn Act of 1906:

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authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to set maximum rates for railroads.

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The Clayton Antitrust Act:

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was more lenient toward big business than was the Sherman Antitrust Act.

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In the area of conservation, Theodore Roosevelt:

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used the Forest Reserve Act to withdraw over 170 million acres of timberland from use.

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At the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1911:

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146 workers died as a result of a fire.

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The Ballinger-Pinchot controversy:

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contributed to the growing rift between Taft and Roosevelt.

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In the 1908 presidential race:

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the Democrats once again nominated Bryan.

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Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom platform

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proposed vigorous antitrust action to break up corporate concentration.

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louis d brandies

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influenced Wilson's New Freedom.

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Woodrow Wilson was:

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a college proffesor

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Which candidate was shot during the 1912 presidential campaign?

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theodore roosevelt

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he election of 1912:

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is correctly described by all the above statements.

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The first Jewish member of the Supreme Court was:

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Louis D. Brandeis

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In his first term as president, Wilson

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allowed the spread of Jim Crow practices in the federal government.

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The cornerstone of Wilson's antitrust program was:

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the Federal Trade Commission.

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In the progressive period:

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voter turnout increased.

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Which of the following statements best describes the diplomatic stance of Woodrow Wilson and William Jennings Bryan?

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America has a religious duty to spread democracy and moral progress throughout the world

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In an effort to topple Huerta's dictatorial government in Mexico, President Wilson:

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sent the military to occupy the port of Veracruz.

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All the following were members of the Triple Entente excep

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Austria-Hungray

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The event that triggered World War I in Europe was:

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Serb's assassination of the Austrian archduke.

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President Wilson's response to the sinking of the Lusitania:

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d. was a series of notes demanding that Germany stop such actions and pay reparations.

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President Wilson's secretary of state resigned in 1915 because:

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he thought Wilson's note to Germany denouncing the sinking of the Lusitania would draw America closer to war.

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The Zimmermann Telegram:

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asked for help from Mexico in the case of war between Germany and the United States.

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The congressional resolution for war

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passed overwhelmingly

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All of the following influenced the U.S. decision to enter the war against Germany except:

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the overthrow of the czarist government in Russia.

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Under the Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917-1918:

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criticism of government leaders or war policies became a crime

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The Food Administration

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taught Americans to plant victory gardens and to use leftovers wisely

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The most important of all the mobilization agencies was the:

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War industries board

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The largest American action of the war was:

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The meuse-argonne offensive

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The first five of Wilson's Fourteen Points included all of the following except:

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increase of global tariffs.

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In negotiating with the Big Four over many postwar territorial issues, President Wilson:

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ad to compromise his principle of national self-determination

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As a result of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia:

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he country concluded a separate peace with Germany

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the 1919 police strike in Boston

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began when several officers protested their long hours and small pay by calling in sick.

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he Red Scare of 1919-1920 was directed against:

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impact of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.

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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were:

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two Italian-born anarchists sentenced to death and executed even though there was doubt as to their guilt.

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The immigration quora laws passed in the 1920s

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favored immigrants from northern and western Europe.

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By the 1910s, the Anti-Saloon League:

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had become one of the most effective pressure groups in American history.

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The scopes trial

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concerned a state law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools.

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The amendment barring the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors was ratified in:

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1928

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Which amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote?

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19th

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Who insisted during the Scopes trial that a "great fish" had swallowed Jonah, that Joshua literally made the sun stand still, and that the world was created in 4004 B.C.?

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William Jennings Bryan

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"The Waste Land," a difficult poem that became the favorite of many modernist readers because of its sense of disillusionment and its suggestion of a burnt-out civilization, was written by:

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TS eliot

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The major prophet of the New South was:

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Henry W Grady

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sharecroppers and tenant farmers

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Increased in number after the civil war

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The pittsburghh of the south was so named because of its steel production was:

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Birmingham, Alabama

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One irony of segrgation is that it opened up

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new economic opprotunites for the blacks

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In the late 1800s, the South experienced major increases in the production of:

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all of the above

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Under bourban rule in the south, State spending

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dramatically declined

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The postwar South suffered from the acute shortage of

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capital

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The disenfranchisement of blacks in the South

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all of the above

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The Mississippi plan of disenfranchisement included all the following except a:

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provision disqualifying anyone who owned less than $300 in personal property.

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In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court

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upheld a Louisiana segregation law

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Ida B wells became famous for

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leading a camplaign against lynching

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The lynching of blacks in the South:

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increased at about the same time that Jim Crow laws spread through the South.

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Booker T. Washington:

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was born of a slave mother and a white father.

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Who said, "In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the five fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress"?

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Booker T. Washington

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The Comstock Lode was:

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in nevada

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Buffalo soldiers were

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black soldiers who served in the wst

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The Indian tribe that defeated Custer and put up the greatest resistance to U.S. domination was the:

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siox

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Following the 1867 Report on the Condition of the Indian Tribes, Congress decided that the best way to end Indian wars was:

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to force the Indians to live on out-of-the-way reservations.

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In the battle of the little bigjorn

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some 2,500 Indians annihilated a detachment of more than 200 soldiers.

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The Dawes Severalty Act:

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correctly represented

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Exodusters were

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black southerners who moved west

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the cattle drives

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Were largely over by

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joseph glidden

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invented barbed wire

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the newlands reclamation act

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provided funds for irrigations works

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