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At the end of the Civil War, the newly freed slaves were given:

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medical and legal assistance from the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

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During the Civil War, Congress passed:

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The Homestead Act of 1862, which gave 160 acres to settlers who lived on the land for five years

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Under Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction:

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10 percent of the 1860 voters had to take an oath of allegiance to the Union

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What Was more stringent than Lincoln's plan for readmitting the southern states?

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The Wade-Davis Bill

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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by:

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John Wilkes Booth

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Who dreaded the change upon hearing of President Lincoln's death and the rise of Andrew Johnson as president?

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Ulysses S. Grant

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The states that had seceded were simply out of their proper practical relation with the Union, and the nations goal following the war was to return them to their proper practical relation. This statement was made by:

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction:

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Required the southern states to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment

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Black Codes were designed by:

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Southern legislatures to set blacks aside as a caste separate from whites and subject to special restraints

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When discussing what to do with the former Confederate States, President Johnson:

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Preferred the term restoration rather than reconstruction

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Radical Republicans:

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Gained strength in 1866

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The Civil Rights Act of 1866:

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Was passed over Johnson's veto

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What amendment forbade states to deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law?

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The Fourteenth Amendment

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Which of the following best describes the role of blacks in southern politics during Reconstruction?

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About 600 blacks served in the state legislatures

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Of the eleven articles of impeachment, eight focused on the charge:

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That Johnson had unlawfully removed Edwin Stanton from office

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Said that no legal state government or adequate protection for life and property now exists in the rebel States, required southern states to accept black suffrage, and required southern states to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.

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The Military Reconstruction Act

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What was a Republican group that, among other things, helped prepare former slaves to exercise their new right to vote?

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The Union League

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Andrew Johnson was from the state of:

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Tennessee

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Who brought little political experience and judgment to the presidency

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Ulysses S. Grant

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By the time President Grant took office, southern resistance to the reconstruction efforts had:

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turned violent

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In the election of 1876:

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Rutherford B. Hayes was the Republican candidate

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The Resumption Act, passed by Congress in 1875:

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allowed for the redemption of greenbacks in gold

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The plan by Jay Gould and Jim Fisk to corner the gold market:

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ended on Black Friday when President Grant ordered the selling of a large quantity of gold

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After the war, rumors swept the South that ex-slaves would receive:

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forty acres and a mule

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Which of the following stood for sweeping change in the South and full equality for the freedmen?

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the Radical Republicans

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When, in late 1865, the former Confederate States sent a number of ex-Confederates to Congress, the Unionists in Congress:

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denied them their seats

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The Tenure of Office Act:

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aimed to keep Radical sympathizer Edwin Stanton in the cabinet

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During Radical Reconstruction:

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Mississippi elected two black U.S. Senators

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Many of the so-called carpetbaggers were:

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Union veterans

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The Ku Klux Klan:

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terrorized black and white Republicans

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The Compromise of 1877:

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allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to become president

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The American Tobacco Company was:

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broken up by the Supreme Court in 1911

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The Pittsburgh of the South, so named because it was an iron center, was:

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Birmingham, Alabama

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Bourbons:

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often favored convict leasing

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The first great cow town was:

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Abilene, Kansas

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Perhaps the ultimate paradox of the Bourbons rule was that their paragons of white supremacy tolerated:

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a lingering black voice in politics

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Why did tenant farmers have no incentive to take care of the farmland that they were on?

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It was not their own land

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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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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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What man was born of a slave mother and a white father?

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Booker T. Washington

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Six states were created from the western territories in the years 1889-1890. These states were not admitted before 1889 because:

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Democrats in Congress were reluctant to create states out of territories that were heavily Republican

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

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persuade the Indians to live on out-of-the-way reservations

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In the Battle of the Little Bighorn:

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some 2500 Indians annihilated a detachment of 200 soldiers

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Who was the peaceful and dignified leader of the Nez Perc Indians?

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Chief Joseph

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Which of the following statements about the cowboys' frontier is not true? a. With two or three notable exceptions, blacks were not allowed to be cowboys. b. Texas longhorns were noted more for their speed and endurance than for their value as beef. c. Much of the cowboys' equipment had been passed on from Mexico. d. Cattle ranching had been common since colonial times.

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With two or three notable exceptions, blacks were not allowed to be cowboys

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What book focused the nations attention on the Indian cause?

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A Century of Dishonor

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The fight for survival in the trans-Mississippi West made men and women:

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more equal partners than were their eastern counterparts

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Proponents of the New South believed that the South should:

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industrialize

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

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textiles, lumber and tobacco products

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Ida B. Wells became famous for:

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leading a campaign against lynching

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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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Sioux

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Cattle drives:

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were largely over by 1886

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The historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that:

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the frontier shaped America's national character

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From the end of the Civil War to the turn of the century how much did the value of manufactures increase?

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six fold

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Federal and state government leaders after the Civil war actively encouraged the growth of business by doing all of the following except: a. implementing high tariffs. b. providing land to expand railroads. c. providing cash to finance railroads. d. providing prison labor to railroad companies.

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providing prison labor to railroad companies

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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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What outweighed, in economic importance, the California gold rush of a decade before?

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the Pennsylvania oil rush

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Firms that control the stock of other companies are called what?

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holding companies

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Who made money in many areas, including oil, railroads, iron and steel, and bridge building?

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Andrew Carnegie

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Thomas Alva Edison invented:

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the first successful incandescent light bulb

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When it came to steel, Andrew Carnegie did all the following except: a. promote it. b. have technical expertise in it. c. sell it. d. know how to organize a steel company.

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have technical expertise in it

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The Molly Maguires

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aimed to right the perceived wrongs against Irish coal workers

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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877:

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ended when the workers, who lacked organized bargaining power, returned to work

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The Workingmen's party of California was based on the anti-_______ sentiment.

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Chinese

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What was the first major federation of trade unions?

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The National Labor Union

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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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What was blamed, probably unfairly, on seven anarchist leaders?

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The Haymarket Affair

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Membership in the American Federation of Labor at first:

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grew slowly

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What ended after mail cars were attached to Pullman cars?

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the Pullman Strike

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Which of the following statements about the Socialist party of America is not true? a. Its support was confined to industrial workers in the Northeast. b. In 1912 the party's presidential candidate received almost 900,000 votes. c. It was plagued by disagreements over Americas participation in World War I. d. It elected mayors in 33 American cities.

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Its support was confined to industrial workers in the Northeast

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What had its origin in the mining and lumber camps of the West?

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The Industrial Workers of the World

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William D. Big Bill Haywood:

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was the leader of the Wobblies

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Most of the single men who endured low wages and dangerous conditions to build the Central Pacific Railroad were:

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Chinese

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Who was the most notorious of the railroad robber barons?

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Jay Gould

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Who became a leading philanthropist?

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John D. Rockefeller

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Sears, Roebuck and Company was a pioneer in:

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selling goods by mail

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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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What sought to organize all types of workers?

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The Knights of Labor

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Who often were the biggest source of assistance for city dwellers?

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Urban political bosses

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Ellis Island: a. was opened in 1892. b. averaged 5,000 immigrants a day in 1907. c. was used mainly to process new immigrants, not to comfort or assist them. d. is correctly represented by all the above statements.

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is correctly represented by all the above statements

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The American Protective Association:

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was strongest in the upper Mississippi Valley

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The exclusion of Chinese immigrants:

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was first authorized with a ten-year suspension

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The Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890:

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established and funded land-grant colleges

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Women's access to higher education:

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improved shortly after the Civil War

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A strict Social Darwinist would object to all the following except: a. the graduated income tax. b. sanitation and housing regulations. c. a governmental policy of laissez-faire in regard to business. d. regulation of medical quacks.

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a governmental policy of laissez-faire in regard to business

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After William James, the chief philosopher of pragmatism was:

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John Dewey

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The author of Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking was:

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William James

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

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naturalism

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The author of Sister Carrie was:

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Theodore Dreiser

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Progress and Poverty argued that:

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

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What organization sought to make the public aware of labor conditions?

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The National Consumers League

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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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By 1900, urban mass transit was provided by the appearance of:

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subways, electric trolleys, and cable cars

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In New York City, the "dumbbell" tenement houses:

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were often fire hazards

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All of the following ethnic groups would typify the immigrants coming to the United States after 1890 except: a. Italians. b. Poles. c. Greeks. d. Scots.

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Scots

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Ellis Island was located right outside the port of:

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New York City

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Vaudeville 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: a. public beaches. b. cycling. c. movie theaters. d. saloons.

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saloons

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The sport that was clearly the "national pastime" by 1900 was:

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baseball

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Who was the first great writer from west of the Appalachians?

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Mark Twain

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The first states to adopt women's suffrage were in:

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the West

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The 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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People living during the Gilded Age expected what type of support from the federal government?

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little

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Who would most likely have been a Gilded-Age Republican?

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a prohibitionist

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Who would most likely have been a Gilded-Age Democrat?

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a German immigrant

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In Munn v. Illinois, the Supreme Court upheld:

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the right of state and local governments to regulate industry essential to the public welfare

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Which of the following best describes Rutherford B. Hayes and civil service reform? a. Hayes was able to get several civil service reform bills through Congress. b. Hayes was against civil service reform, but Congress passed several bills over his vetoes. c. Hayes was against civil service reform, but he signed several bills for political expediency. d. Hayes was unable to get civil service legislation through Congress, but he set up his own rules for merit appointments.

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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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Who was connected with the New York Customs House corruption before he became president?

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Chester A. Arthur

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What lowered the average duty on imports by about 5 percent, less of a decrease than President Arthur supported?

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The "Mongrel Tariff" of 1883

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During the campaign for the presidential election of 1884, many prominent Republican leaders and supporters left the party because:

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letters were discovered linking candidate James G. Blaine to the railroads

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Who was the first Democrat elected to the White House after the Civil War?

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Grover Cleveland

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What was created to regulate railroads?

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The Interstate Commerce Act

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Which of the following was a Democrat? a. Chester A. Arthur b. James G. Blaine c. James Garfield d. Winfield Scott Hancock

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Winfield Scott Hancock

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Benjamin Harrison was elected president:

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even though he received fewer popular votes than the loser, Grover Cleveland

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Which of the following was named father of an illegitimate child? a. Chester A. Arthur b. Grover Cleveland c. James Garfield d. John Sherman

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Grover Cleveland

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Which of the following was not a factor in the decline of commodity prices during the Gilded Age? a. Much new land had been brought into cultivation, increasing production. b. Innovations in transportation brought American farmers more into competition with farmers around the world. c. The Sherman Silver Purchase Act decreased the amount of silver purchased by the government and therefore caused deflation and lower prices. d. Debt-ridden farmers produced more than the market would support at good prices.

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The Sherman Silver Purchase Act decreased the amount of silver purchased by the government and therefore caused deflation and lower prices

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What laid a foundation for stronger legislation to follow?

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Passage of the "Granger Laws"

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Mugwumps were centered in:

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large cities and major universities

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What was more commonly known as the Greenback party?

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The Independent National party

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What allowed farmers to secure low-interest government loans?

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the sub treasury plan

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All the following were included in the 1892 Omaha Platform of the Peoples party except: a. halting the free and unlimited coinage of silver. b. increasing the amount of currency in circulation. c. nationalizing the railroads. d. implementing the sub treasury plan.

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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 22 electoral votes

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One of the causes of the 1893 depression was failure of:

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a British bank

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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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In the presidential election of 1896, William Jennings Bryan:

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was the candidate of the Populist party, carried most of the states in the West and South, and could not win the votes of urban workers in the Northeast

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All of the following led to a new gold rush in the 1880s and 1890s except the discovery of gold in: a. California. b. South Africa. c. the Canadian Yukon. d. Alaska.

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California

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As president, Chester Arthur proved to be:

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surprisingly competent and independent

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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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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 1878, the Samoans signed a treaty with the United States giving the United States:

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a naval base at Pago-Pago

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Who said, "Speak softly, and carry a big stick?"

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Theodore Roosevelt

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The term yellow journalism arose from the:

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circulation war between two New York newspapers

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What referred to President McKinley as a weak and cowardly leader?

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the de Lome letter

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The publisher of the New York Journal was:

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William Randolph Hearst

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What disclaimed any American designs on Cuban territory?

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the Teller Amendment

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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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The treaty ending the Spanish-American War:

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was opposed by most Democrats and Populists

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Who was the Filipino rebel leader?

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Emilio Aguinaldo

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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 Columbian province of Panama rebelled against Columbia

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What sharply restricted the independence of Cuba's new government?

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the Platt Amendment

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What proposed that foreign powers keep the China trade open to all nations on an equal basis?

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the Open Door Policy

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Who loved the outdoors and was, for a brief time, a cowboy?

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Theodore Roosevelt

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As a result of Japans 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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Roosevelt's intervention in the Russo-Japanese War and the Moroccan dispute:

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won Roosevelt the Nobel Peace Prize of 1906

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Western imperialism in the late nineteenth century was stimulated by:

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an ongoing quest for markets and raw materials, nationalistic pride and rivalries between powers, and the desire to Christianize Africa and Asia

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Who argued that sea power was essential to national greatness?

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Alfred Thayer Mahan

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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 United States acquired all of the following as a result of the Spanish-American War except: a. Puerto Rico. b. Panama. c. Guam. d. the Philippines.

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Panama

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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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Through his intervention in the Moroccan crisis in 1906,President Roosevelt:

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may have prevented a war pitting France and Britain against Germany

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The subject of Wealth against Commonwealth was:

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Standard Oil

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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 National Child Labor Committee pushed:

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for laws banning the widespread employment of young children

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The title of the novel that described the terrible conditions of the meatpacking industry was:

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The Jungle

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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 logging

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Contrary to his party's tradition, President Taft called for:

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a lower tariff

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As president, Taft:

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Withdrew more public lands in four years than Roosevelt had in nearly eight

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What authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to set maximum rates for railroads?

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the Hepburn Act of 1906

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In the presidential election of 1912, William Howard Taft:

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was the Republican candidate

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Woodrow Wilson was:

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a professor and college president

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Which candidate was shot during the 1912 presidential campaign?

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Theodore Roosevelt

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George Bird Ginnell is associated with:

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the Audubon Society

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What gave the Democrats effective national power for the first time in over half a century, signaled the return of Southerners to national and international affairs for the first time since the Civil War, and altered the character of the Republican party, making it more conservative?

answer

the election of 1912

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A major factor in Woodrow Wilson's victory in the 1912 presidential campaign was the fact that:

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the Republican party had split in two

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What lowered the average tariff and hence was supported by Wilson?

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the Underwood-Simmons Tariff

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In his first term as president, Wilson: a. refused to support an amendment for women's suffrage. b. allowed the spread of racist practices in the federal government. c. withheld support from federal child-labor legislation. d. did all the above.

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did all the above

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The Federal Highways Act of 1916 was supported by:

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farmers with automobiles

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In the progressive period:

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many groups-blacks, the poor, the unorganized had little influence

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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 supported all of the following as measures to democratize government except: a. the initiative. b. the referendum. c. the party primary. d. the poll tax.

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the poll tax

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At the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1911:

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146 workers died as the result of a fire

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In the 1908 presidential race:

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the Democrats once again nominated William Jennings Bryan

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Of the four presidential candidates in 1912, the one most likely to advocate government ownership of big business was:

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Eugene Debs

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Upon becoming president, Wilson appointed as secretary of state:

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William Jennings Bryan

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

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Concerning U.S. action in the Caribbean, President Wilson:

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kept marines in Nicaragua and sent marines to Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

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Who killed a number of Americans in an attempt to provoke American intervention in Mexico?

answer

Pancho Villa

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All the following were members of the Triple Entente except: a. Austria-Hungary. b. France. c. Great Britain. d. Russia.

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Austria-Hungary

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When news of the European war first reached the United States:

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most high government officials were pro-British

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

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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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In the case of Schenck v. United States, the Supreme Court:

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upheld the conviction of a man who had circulated pamphlets against the draft

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What was primarily to raise money to pay for war preparations?

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The Revenue Act of 1916

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In the presidential election of 1916, the Republicans:

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lost by a small margin

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The congressional resolution for war:

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passed overwhelmingly

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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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Who said that the best way to influence public opinion on the war was expression, not repression?

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George Creel

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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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What was the major cause of the St. Louis Riot in 1917?

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employment in a defense factory

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Despite the fact that the Great War generated many changes in female employment, these changes were only:

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limited and brief

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In the mid-term elections of 1918:

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Democrats lost control of both houses of Congress

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

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had to compromise his principle of national self-determination

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What killed five times the number of Americans as died of combat deaths in France?

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the Spanish-Flu epidemic

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The Red Scare of 1919-1920 reflected the:

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impact of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and the actions of a lunatic fringe in the United States

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In an effort to topple Victoriano 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 of the following influenced the U.S. decision to enter the war against Germany except: a. the overthrow of the czarist government in Russia. b. Germany's declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare. c. Germany's offer of an alliance to Mexico. d. Germany's sudden breakthrough on the Western Front.

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Germany's sudden breakthrough on the Western Front

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The U.S. military effort in France:

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was commanded by Herbert Hoover

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As a result of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia:

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the country concluded a separate peace with Germany

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What included a war guilt clause that blamed Germany for World War I, resulted in the creation of new nations such as Poland and Yugoslavia, and required Germany to pay reparations?

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The Treaty of Versailles

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