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During the Civil War, Congress passed:

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the Homestead Act of 1862, which gave 160 acres to settlers who lived on the land for five years

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Which of the following was NOT a task of the Freedmen's Bureau?

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arming the freedmen

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Under Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction:

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10 percent of the 1860 voters had to take an oath of allegiance to the Union

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Johnson's Proclamation of Amnesty excluded the people he blamed for leading the South into secession. They were:

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the wealthy planters, merchants, and bankers

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Southern efforts to recreate a society that looked similar to the Confederacy had what political impact?

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Moderate Republicans moved to support Radical Republicans' Reconstruction policies.

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Why did Radical Republicans want to disenfranchise former Confederates?

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to keep them from electing Democrats eager to restore the old southern ruling class to power

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All of the following statements about the Fifteenth Amendment are true EXCEPT:

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it ended slavery

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During Reconstruction, all of the following are true about African American involvement in the political arena during Reconstruction EXCEPT:

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their involvement brought unparalleled levels of corruption to state politics.

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The Radical state governments in the South did all the following EXCEPT:

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cut taxes

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All of the following are reasons why Republicans lost control in the South EXCEPT:

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black voters switched to support the Democrats in the 1880s.

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All of the following factors helped accelerate economic growth after the Civil War EXCEPT:

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the use of prison labor by railroad companies

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Interconnected transportation and communications networks were essential to the origins of the Second Industrial Revolution in the United States because:

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they facilitated the emergence of a national and even international markets for American goods and services

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The invention of electric motors did all of the following EXCEPT:

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led to the bankruptcy of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company

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Which of the following best accounts for the success of Standard Oil?

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Its corporate structure—known as vertical integration—allowed the company to grow tremendously.

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When it came to steel, Andrew Carnegie did all the following EXCEPT:

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have technical expertise in it

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Sears, Roebuck and Company was a pioneer in:

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selling goods by mail

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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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The Knights of Labor declined for all the following reasons EXCEPT:

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its leader Terrance Powderly died

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How did the AFL differ from the Knights of Labor?

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

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The New South gospel emphasized all the following EXCEPT:

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women's rights

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

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automobiles

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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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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 postwar South suffered from an acute shortage of:

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capital

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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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They did not own the land on which they farmed.

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Bourbons:

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was a term used to refer to the New South political leadership meant to depict that leadership as reactionary

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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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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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n 1877, President Rutherford Hayes addressed the American approach to dealing with Native Americans, saying:

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"Indian wars have had their origin in broken promises and acts of injustice on our part"

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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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All of the following motivated nativists EXCEPT

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concerns over protestantism

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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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One of the reasons parks and outdoor recreation became popular in the late nineteenth century was because:

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concerns over congestion and disease led many to seek ways to restore their vitality and improve their health

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The spread of public education between the 1880s and 1900 reflected the desire:

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to Americanize immigrant children

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Which of the following statements about the expansion of American higher education in the late nineteenth century is accurate?

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Colleges remained largely male bastions, but women's access to higher education improved markedly

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Herbert Spencer

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coined the phrase "survival of the fittest"

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A strict social Darwinist would object to all the following EXCEPT:

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a governmental policy of "hands off" in regard to business

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The main idea of reform Darwinism was that:

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cooperation, not competition, would best promote progress

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When Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner labeled the post-Civil War era the "Gilded Age," they implied that it was characterized by:

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widespread greed and corruption

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One of the most important reasons that voter turnout was so high during the Gilded Age was that:

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due to patronage and corruption by political machines, almost every government job was subject to the results of the latest election results

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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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Why was the tariff passed in 1883 known as the "mongrel tariff"?

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It called for different rates for different commodities.

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All of the following laws were passed during the Harrison administration EXCEPT:

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The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act

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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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"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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In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court:

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upheld a southern segregation law

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Why was the Supreme Court's ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson so significant?

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Segregation was permitted on the basis of establishing "separate but equal" facilities.

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The lynching of blacks in the South:

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increased at about the same time that Jim Crow laws spread through the South

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