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By the end of the Indian Wars, the Native American population in the continental United States had

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fallen to 250,000 from an estimated 15 million at the time of first contact with Europeans.

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Under the "outing system"

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Indian children were forced to live with white families over summer vacation.

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The Indian wars on the Great Plains were

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wars that began when Euroamerican settlers ran over Native American lands.

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General William Tecumseh Sherman summed up the U.S. government's policy toward Native Americans when he wrote:

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"Remove all to a safe place and then reduce them to a helpless condition."

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The Treaty of Fort Laramie

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was violated by the U.S. government after gold was discovered in the Black Hills.

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The Dawes Allotment Act (1887)

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broke up reservations and assigned individual pieces of land to Native Americans.

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Geronimo was

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an Apache warrior and chieftain who led raiding parties and killed ranchers on both sides of the Mexican border.

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The Ghost Dance

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was a religious ritual that was suppose to resurrect fallen warriors and rid the Indians of white intruders.

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The U.S. army gunned down unarmed Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, in 1890 primarily because

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the soldiers feared an uprising provoked by a militant interpretation of the Ghost Dance religion.

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The Comstock Lode was

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the richest vein of silver ore found on the North American continent.

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The easiest way to get rich in the silver mining industry proved to be

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selling claims to land or forming mining companies and selling stock.

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The wealth produced in the Nevada mining industry primarily

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enriched speculators in San Francisco and other cities.

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Although the Chinese were thought to be hard workers, anti-Chinese prejudice prevented them from working

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in the mines

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Virginia City, Nevada, and other mining centers can best be described as

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sprawling industrialized communities.

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Between 1860 and 1880, the population of Californios (Mexican residents of California)

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fell by more than 60 percent.

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Of the workforce that built America's first transcontinental railroad, Chinese laborers made up

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90 percent

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The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

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had led to a sharp decline in the Chinese population of the American West by 1900.

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In the three decades after 1870, hundreds of thousands of Americans migrated to the West to

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own their own land.

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Compared to the mining West, life in the agrarian West was

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equally speculative and exploitative.

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The Homestead Act of 1862 promised

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160 acres free to any citizen or prospective citizen who settled on land west of the Mississippi River for five years.

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Between 1870 and 1900, the trans-Mississippi West

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increasingly saw family farms give way to commercial farming.

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Women on the frontier

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were forced to work hard at even the simplest tasks.

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To encourage railroad construction in the decades after the Civil War, state and federal governments

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gave railroad companies 180 million acres of public land.

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The invention of barbed wire revolutionized the cattle industry by

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making it possible for ranchers to fence in their cattle.

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African American cowboys in the West were

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ignored by the popular fiction of the time, despite their substantial presence in the region.

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The term "Exodusters" refers to

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the freed African-Americans who moved west and settled in Kansas.

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Between 1870 and 1900, the proportion of those who lived on farms in the United States fell from 80 percent to 66 percent. Yet this period witnessed

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the growth of agriculture through commercialization and expanding urban markets.

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Henry Miller and Charles Lux can best be described as

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the Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller of the far West.

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By the late nineteenth century, farmers were no longer the self-sufficient yeomen anchoring the Republic described by

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Thomas Jefferson

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The proliferation of dime novels and outfits like William F. Cody's Wild West Company

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mythologized and romanticized life in the Old West.

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The Gilded Age can be described as

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an era marked by personal greed and a corrupt partnership between business and politics.

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A key factor in the rise of the Gilded Age was

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the growth of industrialism in the United States.

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In the second half of the nineteenth century, American life came to be dominated by the country's first big business,

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railroading

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Railroad construction in nineteenth-century America was boosted significantly by

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monetary aid and land grants from federal and state governments.

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Vertical integration

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places all aspects of the business, from mining raw materials to marketing and transporting finished products, under the control of the chief operating officer.

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Carnegie Steel achieved the tremendous productivity that Andrew Carnegie insisted on by

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forcing employees to work long hours under extremely dangerous conditions for low pay.

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Before the advent of the automobile, crude oil was used mainly

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for lubrication and lighting in the form of kerosene.

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John D. Rockefeller organized Standard Oil as a trust. That decision was made to

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control the key elements of production and so corner the market for oil.

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By the 1890s, Standard Oil

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had employed both horizontal and vertical integration to control more than 90 percent of the oil business.

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Ida M. Tarbell's "History of the Standard Oil Company" in McClure's Magazine depicted John D. Rockefeller as

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a ruthless, unscrupulous malefactor who had used practically every dirty trick in the corporate book to gain control of the oil industry.

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Alexander Graham Bell

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used a complicated organizational structure in his new company that allowed both local and cross-country communication.

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, electricity

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was utilized mostly in urban areas of the United States.

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Prominent business leaders of the late nineteenth century, such as J. P. Morgan,

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despised competition and tried to substitute consolidation and central control whenever they could.

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To achieve his stunning reorganization and consolidation of businesses in the late nineteenth century, J. P. Morgan

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at times formed "a community of interest," comprised of a few handpicked directors.

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Railroad companies controlled by J. P. Morgan sometimes issued watered stock, a practice that

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kept investors happy but caused overcapitalization and debt for the railroads.

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J. P. Morgan acquired the core of what would be the largest corporation in the world when he purchased

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steel interests formerly controlled by Andrew Carnegie.

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The Supreme Court used a novel interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment to help big business near the end of the nineteenth century. The Court did this by

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elevating property rights over all other rights.

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After Reconstruction, the term solid South referred to

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the states of the old Confederacy, which voted Democratic in every election for the next seventy years.

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In the late nineteenth century, the notion that black men were a threat to white women in the South contributed significantly to

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an increase in lynchings across the South.

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Denied the right to vote during in the late nineteenth century, American women

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found ways to affect the political process though the antilynching, suffrage, and temperance movements.

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The presidents who served in the last part of the nineteenth century—Rutherford B. Hayes through William McKinley—

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were overshadowed by business development and party politics at state and local levels.

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In the last decades of the nineteenth century, national politics in the United States was dominated by

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dynamic party bosses.

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The Republican Party chose Ohioan James A. Garfield as its presidential candidate in 1880 because of his affiliation with

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None of the above

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The Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883 established the Civil Service Commission and

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made it impossible to remove people in civil service jobs for political reasons.

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The president who lost the election at the end of his first term and was re-elected to a second term four years later was

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Grover Cleveland

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By the 1880s, the tariff posed a threat to America's prosperity because

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it created a surplus that was not used to produce goods and services.

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The Supreme Court's decision in Wabash v. Illinois (1886), which reversed its ruling in Munn v. Illinois (1877),

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led to passage of the first federal law regulating the railroad industry.

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The Interstate Commerce Commission, the nation's first federal regulatory agency,

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was so weak in its early years that it served as little more than a historical precedent

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Both the Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act

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testified to the nation's growing willingness to use federal measures to intervene in big business on behalf of the public interest.

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During the economic depression in the winter of 1894-95, president Grover Cleveland hoped to increase the nation's flagging gold reserves by

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making a deal with a private group of bankers, headed by J. P. Morgan, to purchase gold abroad and supply it to the government.

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At the end of the nineteenth century, the Brooklyn Bridge stood as a symbol of

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the ascendancy of urban America.

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Significant urban growth in the late nineteenth century meant that by 1900, more than one million people were living in

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New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia.

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The astonishing growth in urban population between 1870 and 1900 was largely the product of

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the movement of people into cities from other areas of the country and from abroad.

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The world economy at the turn of the twentieth century can best be described as

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an industrial core, an agricultural domain, and a third world tied to the industrial core by economic colonialism.

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In the 1870s, U.S. industrialists hired cheap labor from around the world because

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railroad expansion and low steamship fares enabled immigrants to flock to America.

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By 1900, the majority of immigrants to the United States

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lived in cities because jobs were available there and because they did not have the money to buy land.

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Technological advances and mechanization allowed U.S. industrialists to

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replace skilled laborers with lower-paid unskilled laborers from southern and eastern Europe.

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Racism in late-nineteenth-century America was most evident in

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violence toward blacks and the economic scapegoating of Asians on the West Coast.

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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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Congress approved a literacy test for immigrants in 1896

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as a means of limiting the influx of "backward" people into the country.

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The transportation innovation that first allowed late-nineteenth-century cities to expand to the suburbs was

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horsecar

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In his best-selling How the Other Half Lives (1890), Jacob Riis

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forced middle-class Americans to acknowledge the degraded reality of the poor.

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The backbone of the American labor force throughout the nineteenth century was

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common laborers

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The U.S. garment industry began to change in the 1850s as

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independent tailors were replaced by sweatshop workers.

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Leading up to World War I, the percentage of children under fifteen engaged in paid labor

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increased decade by decade.

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In the late nineteenth century, married black women often supplemented their family income by working

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outside the home as domestics.

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The advent of the adding machine, typewriter, and cash register had the greatest impact on

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literate white women.

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By the end of the nineteenth century, most white native-born women who worked held jobs

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in offices

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The opening of department stores in the late nineteenth century went hand in hand with

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a new consumer culture and the material promise of the times.

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The main lesson workers learned from the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was that

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they had little power individually, but could perhaps gain power if they joined a union.

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The Knights of Labor

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was the first large-scale organization for American workers.

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During the 1880s, the Knights of Labor advocated for

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public ownership of the railroads, an income tax, equal pay for women, and the abolition of child labor.

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Samuel Gompers, the founder of the American Federation of Labor,

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focused on higher pay and better working conditions.

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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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One outcome of the Haymarket affair was

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that many skilled workers turned from the radicals to the American Federation of Labor.

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By 1870, the live-in servant in the North

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was enabling middle-class white women to explore opportunities outside the home.

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Working-class courtship rituals in urban, industrial America

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shifted from family-arranged arrangements to informal meetings at the dance halls and other commercial retreats.

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Beginning in the 1870s, American men of all classes were united in their passion for

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baseball

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In the late 1800s, Coney Island symbolized the

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rise of mass entertainment in America.

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The modern skyscraper emerged in the 1890s primarily as a consequence of the

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advent of structural steel.

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New York City's Central Park was planned as

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a retreat from the bustle of the city.

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Two key elements of the public school system in American cities were

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free tuition and open access to all children.

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By the end of the nineteenth century, American libraries

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made up the most extensive free public-library system in the world.

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In the post-Civil War era, the city boss

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oversaw the building of the city and provided social services for new residents

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By the turn of the twentieth century, most big-city governments were run

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more by compromise and the accommodation of powerful political forces than by boss rule.

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