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Jane Addams is best associated with

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Hull House

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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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The Knights of Labor allowed all occupations to join EXCEPT:

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policeman

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Who developed the first alternating-current electric system?

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George Westinghouse

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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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Mail cars connected to Pullman cars during the Pullman strike

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justified a federal intervention, ending the strike by allowing railroad executives to claim that it interfered with the mail

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What was one main reason electric motors were significant to the industrialization of the late nineteenth century?

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They freed factories to locate wherever they wished, not just by waterfalls and coal deposits.

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The Sand-Lot Incident refers to

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white men attacking Chinatown

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Membership in the American Federation of Labor at first

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grew slowly

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Sears, Roebuck and Company was a pioneer in:

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selling goods by mail

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Violence erupted at Homestead Steel in 1892 when

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Henry Frick tried to break a strike by bringing in Pinkertons

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During the Gilded Age, the rich were getting richer and

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many other people were at least better off

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One method that executives used to fight unions was

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blacklisting

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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 National Labor Union

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was influential in getting Congress to enact an eight-hour workday for federal employees

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Hardmoney

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paid off in gold

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After the end of reconstruction

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The protection of black civil rights crumbled

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Why didnt President Grant seek third term

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In 1875, he acknowledge that many rep lost confidence

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Which of the following was not a part of the Freedmen's Bureau

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arming the freedman

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The Liberal Republicans

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opposed Grant

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Most carpetbeggers were

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Union veterans

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The Radical state government in the south

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cut taxes

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Why did service in the Union

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it provided training and leadeship

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President Johns on fully broke with congress

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vetoed the civil rights act

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Emancipation had what impact on the south

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left the South's agricultural economy in disrray

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In response to the Klan, President Grant

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tried to protect black rigths

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Why did Radical Republicans want disenfranise

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to keep former confederates electing

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Andrew Johnson was

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Impeached by the house not convicted by senate

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The 1866 congressinal elections

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Gave republicans veto proof majorites

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Soft-money

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saw economic benefits in price in price inflation

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Holding companies

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are firms that control the stock of other companies

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Industrialization transformed

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social life

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A transcontinental railroad was not built before the civil war North-South sectional differences prevented congress from

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selecting a route

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The National Labor Union

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Was influential in getting congress to enc=act an eight-hour work day for federal employees

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The greatest growth of the knights of Labor took place in

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the mid-1880's when the union had several strikes against the railroad.

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How did the AFL differ rom the Knights of Labor

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AFL was a federation of national organizations, each which retained a large degree of its autonomy , while Knights more centralized.

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Membership in the American Federation of Labor at first

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Grew slowly

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What was one of the main reason electric motors were significant to the industrialization of the late nineteenth century

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The freed factories

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The Knights of Labor

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Called for men and women to have equal pay for equal work.

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The invention of electric motors did all except

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Lead to the bankruptcy of the Edison Electric illuminating company

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Trusts, like Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust, were vulnerable because they:

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were appealing targets for prosecution on the grounds of monopoly or restraint of trade

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All of the following statements are reasons why child labor was problematic EXCEPT:

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child laborers took well-paying jobs from legal immigrants

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J. Pierpont Morgan is distinguished from business leaders Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller because he:

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came from an elite, privileged background

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The Workingmen's Party of California

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was based on anti-Chinese sentiment

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President Grover Cleveland's response to the Pullman strike was to

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send federal troops to keep the trains running

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if there had been no white hunters in the West, the buffalo

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population would still have experienced a devastating decline

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Violence in the mining towns was

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as common as racial prejudice

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The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was

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declared unconstitutional

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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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The American Tobacco Company was

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dominating the U.S. tobacco industry by the twentieth century

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Proponents of creating a "New South" argued that the Confederacy lost the Civil War because:

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it relied too much upon King Cotton

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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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King Cotton survived the Civil War and expanded over new acreage

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because traditional overplanting of the crop continued

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The open range meant

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land was owned by all

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What was the purpose of the Dawes Severalty Act?

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It sought to "Americanize" Indians by dealing with them as individuals.

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Cow town refers to:

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towns that grew up in the West as a result of the expanding cattle industry

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Congress passed the Homestead Act:

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to encourage settlement of the western lands

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The conventional explanation that the buffalo disappeared from the plains due to overhunting by whites in the West is incomplete because:

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it does not account for environmental factors, such as changes in climate and competition for forage with other animals

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

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hey did not own the land on which they farmed.

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Black migrants to the West were called "Exodusters" because

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they were often making their exodus from the South

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By the late nineteenth century, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians believed

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the time had come to stop fighting and put a stop to his people's needless deaths

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Proponents of creating a "New South" argued that the Confederacy lost the Civil War because

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it relied too much upon King Cotton

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The postwar South suffered from an acute shortage of

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capital

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Why was Alabama named the "Pittsburgh of the South"?

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It was an iron center.

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The so-called frontier thesis is problematic because, among other things

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it exaggerated the homogenizing effect of the frontier environment and virtually ignored the role of women

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The major champion of the New South gospel was

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Henry W. Grady

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The New South gospel emphasized all the following EXCEPT

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women's rights

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Proponents of the New South believed that the South should

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industrialize

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Why was hydraulic mining so damaging to the environment?

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It caused tons of dirt and debris to clog rivers, kill fish, and pollute downstream farmland.

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Range wars erupted by the late nineteenth century because of

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the use of barbed-wire fences

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As railroads brought piles of lumber to the West

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farmers could upgrade their houses

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In the late 1800s, the South experienced major increases in production in all of the following areas EXCEPT

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automobiles

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Benjamin Singleton

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was an early promoter of black migration to the West

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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

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

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The very poor generally did not migrate to the West because

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they generally could not afford the expense of transportation, land, and supplies

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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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The conventional explanation that the buffalo disappeared from the plains due to overhunting by whites in the West is incomplete because

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it does not account for environmental factors, such as changes in climate and competition for forage with other animals

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he first great cow town was

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Abilene, Kansas

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Cattle drives

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were conducted by cowboys, twenty-five percent of whom were African Americans

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Buffalo soldiers were

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black soldiers who served in the West

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"Furnishing" merchants provided the following services

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food, clothing, seed, and other items on credit

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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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The historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that

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the frontier shaped America's national character

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The exclusion of Chinese immigrants

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originally called for a ten-year term

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Realists' emphasis on closely observing everyday life grew out of

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the scientific spirit

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Why was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 significant in American immigration history?

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It was the first federal law to restrict immigration on the basis of race and class

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"Nativists" believed

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immigrants were a threat to their jobs and way of life

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The Stalwarts

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were led by Roscoe Conkling

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Mugwumps were centered in

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large cities and major universities in the Northeast

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Herbert Spencer

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coined the phrase "survival of the fittest"

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Tenement houses in New York City

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had higher mortality rates than among the general popu

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Commodity prices during the Gilded Age declined in large part because of

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overproduction and international competition in world markets

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One of the causes of the 1893 depression was failure of

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the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad

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Young, urban women eager for recreation frequented all of the following EXCEPT

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boxing matches

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The American Protective Association

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was a secret organization whose members pledged never to employ or vote for a Roman Catholic

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Mary Elizabeth Lease

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was a Kansas Alliance leader

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During the presidential election of 1892, the Populist candidate James B. Weaver

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won Colorado, Kansas, Nevada, and Idaho

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Why was Lester Frank Ward's Dynamic Sociology considered a challenge to William Graham Sumner's "social Darwinism"?

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Ward argued that cooperation among people better-promoted progress, while Sumner believed in competition.

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During the 1896 campaign, William Jennings Bryan

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spoke and campaigned all over the country

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Popular Science Monthly, founded in 1872, became the chief magazine for promoting

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social Darwinism

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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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The public health officials and municipal engineers that tried to clean up the city and its public health dangers were called

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sanitary reformers

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Around 1900, saloons did all of the following EXCEPT

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serve as a great place for immigrant men to meet women

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What was the purpose of the "subtreasury plan"?

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It allowed farmers to secure low-interest government loans.

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The Supreme Court decision Munn v. Illinois was significant to understanding the power of government to regulate industry because

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it upheld the right of state and local governments to regulate industry essential to the public interest

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Why was the Interstate Commerce Commission created?

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to regulate railroads

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Mary Elizabeth Lease:

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was a Kansas Alliance leader

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Vaudeville shows were popular because

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they included something to please every taste, social class, and type

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During the depression of 1893, unemployment hovered around

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twenty percent

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One of the reasons mass transit was significant to developing cities was because

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it allowed larger numbers of people to become commuters and live away from the central city

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Herbert Spencer:

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coined the phrase "survival of the fittest"

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Social Darwinism implied the need for

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competition for dominance between different social groups

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The reason that Chester A. Arthur did not win a second term in 1884 is that

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Republican party leaders were not pleased with his first-term record and did not nominate him to run for a second term

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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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Benjamin Harrison lost the popular vote in the 1888 election. How was he able to win the presidency?

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He earned a majority of the electoral votes.

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William "Boss" Tweed controlled

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Tammany Hall

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Facing severe restrictions in their free time, married working women often

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found fellowship with other women on the public streets while tending to other responsibilities

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Ellis Island was located right outside the port of:

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New York City

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After 1890, most immigrants were:

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from southern and eastern Europe

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By 1900, all of the following technologies had helped transform mass transit EXCEPT:

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gasoline-powered buses

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The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act

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provided for appointment to a number of government jobs on the basis of competitive exams

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"Equal rights to all, special privileges to none" was the slogan of the:

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Southern Alliance

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During the presidential election of 1892, the Populist candidate James B. Weaver:

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won Colorado, Kansas, Nevada, and Idaho

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All of the following contributed to epidemics, disease, and high mortality rates in the growing cities EXCEPT:

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the banishment of animals to outside city limits

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Vaudeville shows were popular because:

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they included something to please every taste, social class, and type

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