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The two major depressions of the late nineteenth century followed the Panic of 1873 and the Panic of

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1893

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All of the following were true of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union EXCEPT it

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called for equal pay and continuation of the wage labor system

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The Grangers did all of the following EXCEPT

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establish long term state regulation of the railroads

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Ida B. Wells did all of the following EXCEPT

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run an international antilynching campaign without leaving Memphis

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All of the following were true of immigrants EXCEPT they

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had the same social customs, creating a pattern of crime and misfortune

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The new middle class of the late nineteenth century tended to be all of the following EXCEPT

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leisure-minded and inactive consumers of goods

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The theories developed to justify the acquisition of great wealth in the late nineteenth century included all of the following EXCEPT

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The "gospel of work"

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All of the following were true of the depression of 1893-1897 EXCEPT

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the government tried to stimulate the economy but was largely unsuccessful

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The railroads became the first big business for all of the following reasons EXCEPT they

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stimulated demand for iron, coal, and steel

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The Great Uprising of 1877

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was suppressed with deadly force by federal troops

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Of the following, the group of people that were least likely to be found in the large east coast cities were made up of

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young white men

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The New South

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left control of capital and profits largely in the North

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The national labor federation that was organized in 1866

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organized a small group of workers to improve their working conditions

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Immigrants sought relief from the poverty, alienation, and strain they faced by all of the following EXCEPT

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remaining true to the Old World culture and shunning all innovations

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The cigarette making machine is a good example of all of the following EXCEPT how

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skilled craftsmen could be used as designers

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Government grew in size and responsibility in the late nineteenth century primarily because

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society became more complex and independent

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The Populists, meeting at St. Louis in 1892, advocated all of the following EXCEPT

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a "subtreasury" system to finance crops

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At the end of the 1880s, regional Farmers' Alliances were advocating all of the following EXCEPT

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shoring up money with the gold standard

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The legislation that funded the system of state colleges and universities to teach agriculture and mechanics to the "industrial classes" was the

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Morrill Federal Land Grant Act of 1862

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The telephone was patented in 1876 by its inventor

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Alexander Graham Bell

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The first transcontinental railroad was the

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Union Pacific-Central Pacific

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In the election of 1896

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the Republicans spent huge amounts labeling Bryan as a radical

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The Knights of Labor advocated all of the following reforms EXCEPT

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an increase in the workers' percentage of the profits

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The Sherman Antitrust Act

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became ineffective as a result of court interpretations

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The AFL and its president, Samuel Gompers, believed in all of the following EXCEPT

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the organization of the unskilled and the blacks

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All of the following were true of the workers in Chicago's meatpacking industry in the late nineteenth century EXCEPT

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most received poor pay but had steady work

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The largest labor organization in the late nineteenth century was the

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Knights of Labor

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The writer who became known for his rags-to-riches stories, often interpreted to mean anyone with the right attitude could get rich, was

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Horatio Alger

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The Boston Women's Educational and Industrial Union

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educated more than ten times as many students as Vassar

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The labor organization dedicated to organizing skilled workers to obtain better working conditions, wages, and hours was the

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American Federation of Labor

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All of the following are true of the superintendents of the southern mill towns EXCEPT they

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maintained clean and healthy environments

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The "new immigrants" after 1850 came mainly from

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southern and eastern Europe

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The Interstate Commerce Commission

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was created to regulate commercial activity that the states could not

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The map of the election of 1896 shows that

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the industrial North carried the election for McKinley

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The map of the patterns of industry in 1900 shows that

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most of the large manufacturing centers were in the Northeast

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The political parties in the late nineteenth century

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were basically local and state organizations using machines

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The Knights of Labor

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advocated an eight-hour day

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The correct chronological order of the following events is

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Standard Oil Company founded, Tuskegee Institute founded, Haymarket Riot, Coney Island Opened

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Mechanization of production

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increased the pressure on workers in a more dangerous work place

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The map of strikes by state as of 1880 shows that the states with the highest number of strikes were

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New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio

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Jobs in industry

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excluded many people, including blacks and Chinese

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The term used by Mark Twain to describe the period after the Civil War and its emphasis on showy wealth and corrupt practices was the

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Gilded Age

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Working conditions in Chicago led to demonstration and, in May 1886, to violence when a bomb killed several people at

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Haymarket Square

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The Eight-Hour League and Ira Steward advocated dividing the day into eight-hour sections, each for work, sleep, and leisure, calling that division was what kind of rhythm?

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natural

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The efforts to create a "New South" included all of the following EXCEPT the

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emergence of a society that was primarily urban

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In What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, William Graham Sumner

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says members of the working class deserve to be poor

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The phrase developed by the social critic Thorstein Veblen to describe the ostentatious displays of wealth used to assess one's worth or merit was

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"Conspicuous consumption"

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In the late nineteenth century, efforts to set higher standards in society, promote professionalism, and protect the public included all of the following EXCEPT the

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formation of private organizations such as Tammany Hall

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The most popular form of commercial entertainment from the 1880s to the 1920s, which offered a live variety show composed of different kinds of 15-minute acts, was known as

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Vaudeville

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The value of the annual production of goods rose from $2 billion in 1865 to

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$13 billion by 1900

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A prime example of a "robber baron" would be

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Jay Gould

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In 1873, St. Louis opened a program for preschool children in the form of the first public

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kindergarten

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By the end of the nineteenth century, regulations concerning activities in public parks were

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stiffened?

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Father and son John and Washington Roebling designed and built a pre-eminent example of the practical and aesthetic, which was the

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Brooklyn Bridge

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Andrew Carnegie expressed his ideas about the responsibilities of a successful businessman in his essay

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The Gospel of Wealth

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The southern mill towns

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were most tightly controlled company towns

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The city's public parks in the immediate post-Civil War era were conceived as

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open spaces where all could gather and relax as they liked?

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The Chicago meatpacking companies represented developments in business in the late nineteenth century in all of the following ways EXCEPT

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one company quickly took over the whole industry

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The theory that argues that in human society (as in nature) struggle is the key to progress because it produces the "survival of the fittest," is

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Social Darwinism

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Blacks' right to vote was restricted by all of the following EXCEPT

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poll taxes?

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