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Twenty Years of Hull-House (1910) was
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Jane Addams's account of her work in a Chicago settlement house
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What did Jane Addams quickly learn was necessary to alleviate social problems in Chicago?
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Involvement in political action
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What idea formed the core of progressive-era theory in America?
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The state should play a more active role in solving social problems.
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scientific management
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Elevating productivity and efficiency but alienating the working-class, Frederick Winslow Taylor pioneered the practice of
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One of Cleveland mayor Thomas Lofton Johnson's primary goals was to
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reduce Cleveland's streetcar system's fare from five cents to three cents to promote working-class ridership.
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How did Wisconsin governor Robert La Follette unite his supporters during the first years of the twentieth century?
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La Follette emphasized reform over party loyalty.
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According to Theodore Roosevelt, the absolutely vital question facing the nation when he became president in 1901 was whether
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the government had the power to control the trusts.
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What was the outcome for the miners in the Anthracite coal strike of 1902?
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Reduced hours and an increase in wages.
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Taken together, what did President Roosevelt's actions in the anthracite coal strike of 1902 and the dissolution of the Northern Securities Company in 1904 demonstrate about the U.S. government?
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President Roosevelt would stand up for the common people and protect them from the abuses of big business.
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To obtain the Panamanian isthmus for construction of a canal in 1903, the United States
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backed an uprising in Panama arranged by New York investors.
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Which of the following factors contributed significantly to the astonishing growth in America's urban population between 1870 and 1900?
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European migration to the United States.
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What circumstances enabled U.S. industrialists to hire cheap labor from around the world in the 1870s?
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Construction of the railroads and low steamship fairs brought many immigrants to America.
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After 1880, most immigrants to America originated from
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eastern and southern Europe
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Southern blacks migrated to northern cities in the 1890s
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to escape violence at the hands of southern whites and economic opportunity.
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Which group constituted the backbone of the American labor force throughout the nineteenth century?
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unskilled laborers
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Employers sought to limit the control of skilled workers on the shop floor in the late nineteenth century
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by replacing skilled workers with machines.
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Which of the following describes the economic survival of the nineteenth century American working-class family?
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A family's survival depended on every family member working.
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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was
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a spontaneous and unorganized event.
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What was the main lesson learned by the workers from the Great Railroad strike of 1877?
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They lacked power individually, but might gain it through a union.
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What late nineteenth century development did New York City's Brooklyn Bridge symbolize?
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The ascendancy of urban America.
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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 United States different from Europe.
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Why did the U.S. government decide to move Indians to reservations around the mid nineteenth century?
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The government's policy of pushing the Indians further west to make way for white settlement no longer worked because there was no land left to push the Indians further west.
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Why did the Indians sign the Treaty of Fort Laramie, which ceded some of their land to allow passage of wagon trains?
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They hoped to preserve their culture and way of life in the face of white settlement of the West.
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What was the Comstock Load?
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The richest vein of silver ore found on the North American continent.
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Which is the largest ethnic group in the western mining district of the U. S. in the late nineteenth century?
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Chinese
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The Chinese men were hard workers but anti-Chinese prejudice barred them from work in which jobs?
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Mining jobs
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What was the purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
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To limit and decrease the number of Chinese immigrants to the United States.
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Which two factors helped stimulate the land rush in the trans-Mississippi West?
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The Homestead Act of 1862 and he building of the transcontinental from the Mississippi River to the California coast.
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What did the Homestead Act of 1862 promise to people who settled in the trans Mississippi West?
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160 acres of free land to anyone who settled in the trans Mississippi West and stayed for five years.
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What did the federal government do to encourage railroad construction in the decades after the Civil War?
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They gave away huge tracts of land to railroad companies to encourage railroad construction.
