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Elections during the Gilded Age

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were closely contested affairs

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What did hunters shoot while riding the railroads across the West?

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Buffalo

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What was the aim of Carlisle, a boarding school for indians?

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Simply to civilize the Indians, making them "American" as whites defined the term

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The Ghost Dance

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was a religious revitalization among Indians, feared by whites.

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How is Standard Oil depicted in the magazine Puck, illustrating the company as a dangerous monopoly?

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an octopus

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Henry George rejected the traditional equation of liberty with

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ownership of land.

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Which city became the world's center for iron and steel manufacturing?

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Pittsburgh

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Henry George offered a solution of a __ for the problem of inequality in America.

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single tax

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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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Chief Joseph

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wanted freedom for his people, the Nez Perce.

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The Indian victory at Little Bighorn

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only temporarily delayed the advance of white settlements.

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The economic development of the American West was based on

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tourism, lumber, and mining industries, as well as farming.

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"Boss" William M. Tweed

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political boss

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Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

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Munn V. Illinois, Wabash V. Illinois, Interstate Commerce Act, and Lochner V. New York

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All of the following were "captains of the industry" except

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Samuel Gompers

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The Industrial Revolution in the US took place principally in

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the Northeast and midwest

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What was the name of Rockefeller's company?

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Standard Oil Company

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Which was NOT a central factor in the explosive economic growth in the second industrial revolution?

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Low tariffs

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The 1887 Dawes Act

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loss of tribal lands and erosion indian cultural traditions

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Between 1870 and 1920, how many immigrants arrived?

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25 Million

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In which book, did Henry George propose a single tax on real estate that replaces all other taxes?

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Progress and Poverty

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In 1890, the distribution of wealth in the US

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was unequally distributed with the top one percent of Americans owning more property than the remaining 99 percent

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Which of the following was NOT a major reason for the decline and subjugation of the American Indian?

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Indifference to the advantage of guns and horses weakened Indian resistance to US military process

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Which census revealed for the first time that there were more non-farming jobs than farming jobs in the US?

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1880

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The Republican party found particularly strong support among all of the following except?

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Irish-Americans

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The Gilded Age was said to be

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a time of dishonesty and corruption

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Which best describes the Ghost Dance?

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It was feared by US army officials

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Which was NOT a focus of debate between Democrats and the republicans during the Gilded Age?

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Federal Income tax levels

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Early 1870s, who was the "boss" of New York City?

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William M. Tweed

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Congress established what to regulate economic activity and ensure that the railroad rates were reasonable and favoritism was avoided?

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The interstate Commerce Commission

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Not a theme of Social Darwinism

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The growing gulf between the haves and have-nots poses a dire threat to American freedom

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Andrew Carnegie made his fortune in?

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Steel

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Was NOT a key episode of the "great upheaval" of 1886?

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America's first nationwide railroad strike

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By 1913, the US produced how much of the world's industrial output?

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one-third

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Best captures the vision of the knights of labor

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cooperative commonwealth

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The theory of Social Darwinism argued that

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the theory of evolution applied to humans, thus explaining why some were rich and some were poor

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What did William Graham Sumner believe social classes owed each other?

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Nothing at all

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For workers, the second industrial revolution

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all of the above

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Credit mobile and the whisky ring

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were indicative of the corruption in the Grant administration

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The heartland of the second industrial revolution was in

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The Great Lakes region

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Henry George rejected the traditional equation of liberty with

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ownership of land

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The Dawes Act of 1887

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sought to break up the tribal system

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The social gospel

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called for an equalization of wealth and power

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During the second industrial revolution, the courts

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tended to favor the interests of industry over those of labor

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Henry George

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advocated the single-tax plan

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The ___ made possible the second industrial revolution in America.

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railroads

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The idea for the statue of liberty originated in response to the

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assassination of Abraham Lincoln

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One of the reasons that the Great Strike of 1877 was important to the

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it underscored the tensions produced by the rapid industrialization of the time.

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During the Gilded Age, the american working class

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lived in desperate conditions

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Which city became the world's center for iron and steel?

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Pittsburgh

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Who insisted that freedom and spiritual self-development required an 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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Elk V. Wilkins (1884)

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

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The impact of the second industrial revolution on the trans-Mississippi west was

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dramatic as an agricultural empire grew

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William Tweed was a(n)

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political boss who, although corrupt, provided important services to New Yorkers

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In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis

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focused on the wretched conditions of New York City Slums

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In the nineteenth century, pools, trusts, and mergers were

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ways manufacturers sought to control the marketplace

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After the Civil War, which became symbols of a life of freedom on the open range?

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Cowboys

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The Dawes Act

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divided tribal lands into parcels and land for Indian families

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The era from 1870 to 1890 was known as the

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Gilded Age

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Who led the Nez Perce on a 1700-mile trek from their homes in Oregon and Idaho through the Far West in an unsuccessful effort to escape to Canada?

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Chief Joseph

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Which statement about the disenfranchisement of blacks in the south is false?

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The Supreme Court refused to invalidate the grandfather clause for violating the fifteenth amendment.

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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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Who was the 1892 presidential candidate for the Populist Party?

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James Weaver

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The Farmer's Alliance

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sought to improve conditions through cooperatives

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Twenty years after the end of Reconstruction, African-Americans in the South

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suffered the most from the regions poor conditions

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Plessy V Ferguson

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sanctioned racial segregation.

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Which institution was hardest hit by the "Redeemers" once they assumed power in the south

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public schools

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The 1894 Pullman Strike

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collapsed when union leaders were jailed

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The election of 1896

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is sometimes called the first modern presidential campaign.

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In the 1890s the National American Suffrage Association

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argued the native-born white women's votes would contract the ignorant foreign vote.

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In Plessy V Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court

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ruled that separate but equal accommodation were constitutional.

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Farmers believed that their plight derived from all of the following except

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the free and unlimited coinage of silver

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The Populists

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relied on women orators such as Mary Elizabeth Lease.

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