U. S. History 16-20
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In Lincoln's plan for reconstruction, what did a confederate state need to do to qualify for readmission into the union?
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10% of the voting population needed to take an oath of allegiance before forming a new government
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The goal of the Wade-Davis bill was to
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Guarantee freedmen equal protection before the law
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What did former slaves hope to gain from the reconstruction labor transformation
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Land ownership
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What did \"Sherman land\" and the establishment of the bureau of refugees, freedmen, and abandoned lands demonstrate to southerners about reconstruction
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The policies convinced ex-slaves that they would become independent landowners
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Who opposed president johnson's reconstruction plan
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Republican legislators
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The purpose of the black codes passed in 1865 was to
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Subordinate blacks to whites
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Why was the civil rights act of 1866 extraordinary
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It made discrimination in state laws illegal
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How did the 14th amendment deal with voting rights
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It gave congress the right to reduce an intransigent states representation
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Andrew Johnson was impeached on what charge
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He violated the tenure of office act
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What was the result of the compromise of 1877
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The compromise spelled the end of reconstruction
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What did the historian Frederick Jackson turner argue about the importance of the western frontier in American history in 1893
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The western frontier made the US different from Europe
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Why did the US government decide to move Indians to reservations around the mid 19th century
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The governments policy of Indian removal further west was no longer practical because western land was no longer endless
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What was the outcome of the Dawes act of 1887
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Resulted in many Indians losing their lands to speculators
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What was the ghost dance
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A religious dance of native Americans looking for communication with the dead
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What was the comstock lode
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The first major US discovery of silver ore, located Virginia city Nevada. Richest vein of silver
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What did the homestead act of 1862 promise to potential migrants to the west
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Provide free land to anyone willing to settle there and develop it
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What was the purpose of the Chinese exclusion act of 1882
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To deny citizenship to Chinese in the US and forbid further immigration of Chinese
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Why did the federal government do so little to halt corruption and scandal in the western territories
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Distance, funding, and local hostility limited the governments ability to prosecute cases
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How did the invention of barbed wire revolutionize the cattle industry
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It allowed ranchers to fence in their cattle
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By the late 19th century farmers who were no longer the self-sufficient yeomen anchoring the republic as originally described by which of the following men
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Thomas Jefferson
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Which of the following describes the gilded age
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An era marked by personal greed and a corrupt partnership between business and politics
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John d Rockefeller first organized standard oil as a trust to
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Stabilize his industry, reduce competition and maximize profits
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How did Alexander graham bell's telephone revolutionize both communications and business in America
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Allowed both local and cross country communication
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How did JP Morgan achieve his stunning reorganization and consolidation of businesses in the late 19th century
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At times formed \"a community of interest\" comprised of a few handpicked directors
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What idea was promoted by the theory of social Darwinism in the late 19th century
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Progress is the result of competition and social reforms and other modes of human interference impede progress
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What is an oligopoly
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A market structure in which a small number of interdependent firms compete
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The economic theory of laissez-faire gained political clout in the late 19th century because
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The Supreme Court increasingly was reinterpreting the constitution to protect business
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The supreme courts late 19th century reinterpretation of the 14th amendment helped big business by
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Elevating property rights over all other rights
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The supreme courts decision in wabash vs Illinois 1886 which reversed its ruling in munn vs Illinois 1877
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Prohibited states from regulating the railroads because the constitution grants congress the power to regulate interstate commerce
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The greenback labor party believed that the government should issue paper currency based on
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Total wealth of the nation
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Which of the following factors contributed significantly to the astonishing growth in Americas urban population between 1870 and 1900
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European migration to the US, went from rural to urban
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The racism directed at ethnic immigrant groups in America in the late 19th century
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Was the product of people perceiving ethnic and religious differences as racial characteristics
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What did Jacob Riis achieve with his best selling -How the other half lives
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He forced middle class Americans to acknowledge the degraded reality of the poor
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Southern blacks migrated to northern cities in the 1890s
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For economic opportunities and safety
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The great railroad strike of 1877 was
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A spontaneous and unorganized event
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The Knights of labor was
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The first large scale organization for American workers
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The haymarket affair of 1886
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Began as a rally of laborers organized by radicals
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In the post civil war US a \"city boss\" was
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A politician that oversees the building of the city and they provide social services to the new residents who need it
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What issues formed the basis of farmers dissatisfaction in the late 19th century
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Banking, railroading and speculation
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How did the populists propose to help American farmers in the 1890s
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They recommended creating a government sponsored sub-treasury
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What issue triggered the cripple creek miners strike of 1894
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Owners attempted to lengthen the workday from 8 to 10 hours
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Which one of the US states allowed women to vote in 1890
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Wyoming
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By 1900 the WCTU could claim credit for
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Providing a generation of women with experience in political action
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The boxer uprising in China in 1899 targeted
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Missionaries and their families
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The US role in the 1895 border crisis in Venezuela signaled to the world that
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The US had achieved hegemony, or domination, in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Secretary of State John hay initiated the open door policy in 1900
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To guarantee access to trade in China for all colonial powers
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The platt amendment in the 1898 Cuban constitution
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Gave Cuba nominal political independence
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The treaty of Paris that ended the war with Spain ceded which islands to the US
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Puerto Rico and Guam
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Which of the following problems was a drawback of living in the town of Pullman Illinois
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The high rent
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Why were women's suffrage advocates unhappy with the wording of the 15th amendment
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A. It granted suffrage to former slaves but not to women
