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181 Cards in this Set
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The delegates of the Constitutional Convention met wtih the intention of forming a new government.
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False
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The Articles of Confederation had no judicial system.
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True
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The National Bank was the key to the rest of Hamilton's financial program.
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True
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After the Revolutionary War, people claimed to be Americans.
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False
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The Jay Treaty was popular with the people in America.
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False
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There was nothing said in the Constitution about how many terms a person could serve as president.
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True
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The delegates of the Constitutional Convention were brought together under false pretenses.
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True
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We owed France, and should have helped them when Britain declared war on them, however, we could not afford to go to war at the time.
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True
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The creation of the cabinet is found in the Constitution.
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False
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The Articles of Confederation created a weak national government on purpose.
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True
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John Marshall said he could not issue a writ of mandamus because it was unconstitutional.
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False
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People's loyalty remained to their state after the Revolutionary War.
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False
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Napoleon had a dream of an American empire.
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True
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The Articles of Confederation stated that the government could collect taxes.
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False
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James Madison only wanted to revise the Articles of Confederation.
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True
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Americans were unhappy with Thomas Jefferson's explanation that it was an implied power of the President to buy the Louisiana Territory.
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False
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The French people started a revolution by storming King Louis XVI's castle.
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False
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The biggest argument of Hamilton's financial plan was about paying back the state loans.
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True
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Judicial review was given to the Supreme Court in an amendment to the Constitution.
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False
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All the states made claims to land west of the Appalachian Mountains; the problem was that many of the claims overlapped.
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False
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President Jefferson sent people over to France to offer $5 million, then $10 million if necessary for the Louisiana Territory.
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False
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Under the Articles of Confederation, most of the power remained with the states.
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True
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It was up to the states to enforce the laws the Articles of Confederation Congress made.
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True
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France impressed American sailors and seized U.S. ships.
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False
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The Federalists lost control of the Executive Branch and the Judicial Branch in 1800.
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False
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Napoleon decided to sell the Louisiana Territory due to the slave revolt in Haiti.
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True
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Successful revolutions are contagious.
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True
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Which of the following was the root of all the weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation?
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They had no authority over individual citizens and very little over the states.
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Why would Maryland not ratify the Articles of Confederation?
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States had claims to the territory between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River.
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Which of the following is a reason Jefferson was given why he could not wait to buy the Louisiana Territory?
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Napoleon might change his mind
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Which of the following caused many to think the states should have some type of union?
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Spirit of Republicanism
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Which of the following is not true about the Louisiana Purchase?
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The people of the U.S. were against purchase.
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What led to Judicial Review?
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Midnight Judges
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The South's economy went back pretty much like it was before the Civil War.
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True
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The South needed a new system of labor after the Civil War.
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True
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President Johnson thought reconstruction was the job of the President only.
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True
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President Johnson's reconstruction policies were based upon charity.
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True
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Mississippi and Georgia refused to ratify the 13th Amendment.
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False
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At first Congress only wanted to modify Presidential Reconstruction.
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True
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Congress failed to pass an extension of the life and power to the Freedman's Bureau at first.
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True
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Most of the Congress, after the Civil War, was made up of Northern Democrats.
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False
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The Mississippi Plan was accepted throughout the South.
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True
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President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act after he first vetoed it.
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False
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The 13th Amendment was the official end of slavery.
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True
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Most Blacks depended on whites for their livelihood after Reconstruction.
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True
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Radical Republicans were willing to give federal land in the north as well as taking land from the planters to give to the Freedmen.
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False
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The Moderate Republicans didn't want to grant too much power to the federal government.
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True
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The new forms of Southern government looked too much like the old ones under Presidential Reconstruction.
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True
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Booker T. Washington encouraged African Americans to demand their equality.
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False
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After the Civil War the South had to work out the meaning of emancipation.
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True
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Most of the Congress, after the Civil War, was made up of Northern Democrats.
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False
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The Mississippi Plan was accepted throughout the South.
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True
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President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act after he first vetoed it.
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False
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The 13th Amendment was the official end of slavery.
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True
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Most Blacks depended on whites for their livelihood after Reconstruction.
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True
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Radical Republicans were willing to give federal land in the north as well as taking land from the planters to give to the Freedmen.
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False
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The Moderate Republicans didn't want to grant too much power to the federal government.
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True
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The new forms of Southern government looked too much like the old ones under Presidential Reconstruction.
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True
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Booker T. Washington encouraged African Americans to demand their equality.
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False
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After the Civil War the South had to work out the meaning of emancipation.
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True
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Radical Republicans wanted to take land away from planters and redistribute it.
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True
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President Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights bill but passed the Freedman's Bureau.
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False
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Due to Radical Reconstruction, there were more blacks registered to vote than whites in the South.
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True
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After modification attempts failed, Congress wanted to take full control of Reconstruction.
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True
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Legislatures under Radical Reconstruction used property taxes to raise money.
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True
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Tenant farmers wanted to grow tobacco.
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False
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The Moderate Republicans wanted to destroy the planter class.
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False
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The South developed many new industries during Reconstruction.
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False
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Booker T. Washington believed that Blacks should learn a trade and earn their equality.
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True
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Most Blacks supported the Mississippi Plan.
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False
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What allowed the Planter class to regain control over state legislatures in the South?
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Mississippi Plan
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What was the first time Congress overturned a veto on major legislation?
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Civil Rights Act
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Which of the following was not a Supreme Court ruling that favored segregation?
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Civil Rights Act
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What ended Reconstruction in the South?
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Compromise of 1877
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What was the name of the agency that was developed to help African Americans adjust to their new freedom?
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Freedman Bureau
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Which of the following was NOT a part of the Reconstruction?
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Forty Acres and a Mule
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What kept African Americans away from the voting polls?
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Jim Crow Laws
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Which of the following is the Plessy vs. Ferguson court case?
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Separate but equal was legal
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Which of the following did President Johnson NOT do?
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Gave them grants to farms
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What caused the tobacco industry to boom?
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Cigarette making machine
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What laws were passed in Southern states that were intended to stop movement of freed African Americans and return them to plantation labor?
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Black Codes
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Which of the following was NOT a part of Reconstruction Legislatures?
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Planters
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Who believed that the purpose of Reconstruction was "to restore the proper and practical relations between those states and the Union?"
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President Lincoln
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Which of the following was not a reaction to freedom by the African Americans?
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Started the NAACP
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The poll tax and proof of literacy were associated with which of the following?
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Jim Crow Laws
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Which of the following is NOT a policy the radicals wanted to use to achieve their goals?
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Disband Southern legislatures
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What did the Southern states vote to reject?
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14th Amendment
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Which of the following was NOT a problem of Reconstruction legislatures that we talked about?
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No respect
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Which of the following did Congress hope to achieve with a conviction in President Johnson's impeachment?
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Give Congress more power
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What greatly expanded in the South after Reconstruction?
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Railroad
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Laissez faire capitalism calls for government intervention.
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False
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The Sherman Anti Trust Act outlawed all monopolies and trusts that restrained trade.
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True
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Most women worked because the families needed the income.
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True
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The purpose of the blacklists was to hurt the employers.
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False
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Karl Marx wanted to overthrow the communist economic system.
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False
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The typewriter allowed users to quickly produce easily legible documents.
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True
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Carnegie's real financial success came from him learning to reduce production costs.
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True
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An American built the first horseless carriage.
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False
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The Union Pacific and the Eastern Pacific were the two companies to build the first transcontinental railroad.
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False
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The Great Upheaval was a year that the U.S. experienced a great number of strikes.
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True
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A company with a monopoly has complete control over price and quality.
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True
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No one argued that rapid industrialization was harmful and unjust to the working class because our economy was doing so well.
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False
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Thomas Edison's workshop was located in New York.
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False
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Whale oil replaced kerosene.
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False
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Typing pools provided jobs for clerical workers.
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True
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Black Gold was a nickname for oil.
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True
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The Great Upheaval involved violence.
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True
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A value of self-reliance led many leaders to support the ideal of laissez faire.
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True
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The Sherman Anti Trust Act didn't do any good.
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True
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A contract promising that a worker would not join a union was called a yellow-skunk contract.
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False
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The increased availability of steel led to widespread industrial use.
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True
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What is not an item that determines what and how much is made in a free market economy?
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Costs
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What was not a way companies persuaded customers to use their products?
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Free samples
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Who proposed a political system that would remove the inequalities of wealth?
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Karl Marx
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Where did the two railroads meet to drive the final spike on the first transcontinental railroad?
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Promontory, Utah
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Who made railroad luxury passenger cars?
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Pullman
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Who was a pioneer in communications technology?
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Thomas Edison
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Who made their fortune by inventing an air brake for railroad cars?
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Westinghouse
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Who made significant contributions to the light bulb?
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Latimer
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Who owned the Standard Oil Company?
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John D. Rockefeller
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Who was a pioneer of the railroad industry?
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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What was not an area that Thomas Edison made significant discoveries in?
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Telephone
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What was the first product to be refined from crude oil?
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Kerosene
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What word did the book use to describe Thomas Edison?
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Innovator
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What caused the Pony Express to close down?
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Telegraph
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Who owned the first power plant?
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Thomas Edison
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Who helped develop a transformer that could transmit a high voltage alternating current?
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Tesla
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What union was opened to skilled and unskilled workers?
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Knights of Labor
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What union supported the Pullman Strike?
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American Railway Union
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What union was started just for skilled workers?
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American Federation of Labor
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What are people who oppose all forms of government called?
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anarchist
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What was the theory that the "fittest" people, businesses, or nations should and would rise to positions of wealth and power called?
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Social Darwinism
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What is the belief that the economy will prosper if businesses are left free from government regulation?
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free enterprise
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What is a guarantee to protect an inventor's rights to make, use, or sell the invention?
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patent
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Company money
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script
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What is grouping several companies under one board of directors to eliminate competition and to regulate production?
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trusts
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What were major railroads that were connected by feeder lines to outlying areas called?
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trunk lines
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What is gaining exclusive control of an industry called?
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monopoly
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What is the idea that individual ownership of property should not be allowed. Property and means of production are owned by everyone in the community?
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communism
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What is it called when a company sells shares of ownership, called stock, to investors in order to raise money?
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corporation
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What is acquiring companies that provide the materials and services which the main enterprise depends upon called?
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vertical integration
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What is the economic system where private businesses run most industries and competition determines how much goods cost and workers are paid called?
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capitalism
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What is it called when a company controls other companies producing the same product?
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horizontal integration
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What outlawed all monopolies and trusts that restrained trade?
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Sherman Anti Trust Act
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What was the method of steel-making that burned off the impurities in molten iron with a blast of hot air called?
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Bessemer Process
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Who established the famous settlement house in Chicago and what was it called?
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Jane Addams; Hull House
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Give the names of two people that were a part of the nouveau riche.
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Andrew Carnegie and Cornelius Vanderbilt
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What caused cities to grow upward?
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skyscrapers
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What caused cities to grow outward?
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mass transit
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What two types of filth could you find outside the crowded tenements?
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raw sewage and piles of garbage
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True or False: Many Americans saw immigrants as too different to fit into American society.
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True
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True or False: Immigrant workers did not play an important role in operating factories that contributed to a strong U.S. economy.
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False
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True or False: Between 1865 and 1900 the percentage of Americans living in cities tripled.
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False
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True or False: Immigrants were often urged by employers, public institutions, and sometimes even family members to join the American mainstream.
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True
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What law did President Grover Cleveland veto?
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to make the immigrants take a literacy test
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What were economic depressions called before they were called depressions?
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panics
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What was the name of the immigration station in the New York harbor?
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Ellis Island
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What was the name of the immigration station in San Francisco Bay?
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Angel Island
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What means "newly rich?"
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nouveau riche
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Many American members of the new upper class imitated the social behavior and etiquette of what culture?
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British Victorian
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What kept wages low for working-class men and women?
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Ever-growing population of immigrants eager to work
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Why was pollution so horrible in the tenement areas?
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They were built next to the factories in the adjoining industrial areas
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Why did many of the nouveau riche spend their great wealth freely?
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So that everyone would know how successful they were
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What Act denied citizenship to people born in China and prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers?
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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What caused people in California to be less tolerant of Chinese workers in 1873?
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Unemployment following the Panic of 1873
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List 3 of the 4 things that they screened immigrants for at immigration stations?
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mental illness, criminals, disease
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These people were mostly Protestants from Northwest Europe.
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Old Immigrants
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New class of American city-dwellers that made their fortunes from businesses of the Second Industrial Revolution.
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nouveau riche
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Buildings that housed many poor city-dwellers in the late 1800s and the early 1900s.
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tenements
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Requiring parents to send their children to school.
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compulsory education laws
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Organizations that helped immigrants in cases of sickness, unemployment, and death.
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benevolent societies
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Public transportation systems, such as commuter trains and subways.
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mass transit
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Style of music created by African American pianists in the 1890s.
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ragtime
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Residential neighborhoods on the outskirts of a city.
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suburbs
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Community service centers that were founded in the late 1800s.
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settlement houses
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Poor accommodations in a ship's lower levels.
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steerage
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People that mostly came from southern and eastern Europe.
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new immigrants
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Large, multistory buildings
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skyscrapers
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A style of sensational reporting used by newspapers to attract readers.
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yellow journalism
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Spending money just to display one's wealth.
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conspicuous consumption
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"Light Play."
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vaudeville
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