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30 Cards in this Set
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All of the following were Captains of Industry except
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Samuel Gompers
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By 1913, the United States produced how much of the world's industrial output?
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1/3
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The 1887 Dawes Act
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led to the loss of tribal lands, and the erosion of Indian cultural traditions.
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What Indian chief said, "If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them all and even chance to live and grow"?
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Chief Joseph
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Which of the following was not a key episode of the "great upheaval" of 1886?
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America's first nationwide railroad strike
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Which of the following was not a major reason for the decline and subjugation of the American Indian?
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Indifference to the advantages of guns and horses weakened Indian resistance to U.S. military power.
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Which of the following best describes the "Ghost Dance?"
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feared by U.S. Army officials
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In 1890 the distribution of wealth in the United States was
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the top 1 percent of Americans owned more property than the remaining 99 percent.
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According to Eric Foner, the federal government contributed to the dynamic and expansive growth of the American economy in the late nineteenth century by
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granting land to railroads, removing Indians from desirable lands in the West, and enacting high tariffs.
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What was the name of the organization that sought to organize both skilled and unskilled workers, women as well as men, blacks along with whites, and achieved a membership of nearly 800,000 in 1886?
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the Knights of Labor
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Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
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Munn v. Illinois; Wabash v. Illinois; Interstate Commerce Act; Lochner v. New York
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the years from 1873 to 1897 were known as
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the Great Depression.
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The book in which Henry George proposed a "single tax" on real estate that would replace all other taxes is titled
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Progress and Poverty.
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Which of the following was not a theme of Social Darwinism?
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The growing gulf between the haves and the have-nots poses a dire threat to American freedom.
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Which of the following was John D. Rockefeller’s Company?
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Standard Oil
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Which of the following was not a key episode of the "great upheaval" of 1886?
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America's first nationwide railroad strike
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Which of the following was not a focus of debate between Democrats and Republicans during the Gilded Age?
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federal income tax levels
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The phrase that best captures the vision of the Knights of Labor is
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cooperative commonwealth
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The political "boss" of New York City in the early 1870s was
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William Marcy Tweed.
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Which of the following was not true of the second industrial revolution?
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A boom in automobile manufacture spurred the rise of oil, rubber, and steel production.
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The politics of Gilded Age America was said to be
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a time of dishonesty and corruption in which corporations battled each other for special consideration by local state and federal governments.
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Which census revealed for the first time that there were more non-farming jobs than farming jobs in the United States?
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1880
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The Industrial Revolution in the United States took place principally in
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the Northeast and the Midwest.
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In the late nineteenth century, the Republican Party found particularly strong support among all of the following except
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Irish-Americans.
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The spirit of innovation contributed importantly to the dynamic and expansive growth of the American economy in the late nineteenth century. Which of the following was not an innovation of the 1870s and 1880s?
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the airplane
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Which was not a central factor in the explosive economic growth in the second Industrial Revolution?
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low tariffs
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Which of the following can be associated with the death of the Knights of Labor?
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Haymarket Square
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Between 1870 in 1920, how many immigrants arrived from overseas?
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25 million
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Two of the Gilded Age's leading business figures were
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Thomas A. Scott and Andrew Carnegie.
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The first federal agency intended to regulate economic activity, and ensure that railroad rates were reasonable and favoritism avoided was
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the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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