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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.

Front 2

Between 1870 in 1920, how many immigrants arrived from overseas?

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25 million

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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.

Front 4

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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All of the following were Captains of Industry except:

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Samuel Gompers.

Front 6

By 1913, the United States produced how much of the world’s industrial output?

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one-third

Front 7

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

Front 8

The phrase that best captures the vision of the Knights of Labor is:

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“Cooperative commonwealth.”

Front 9

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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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.

Front 11

"Vertically integration" is defined as one company controlling every phase of the business from raw materials to transportation, manufacturing, and distribution.

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True

Front 12

A significant amount of Mexican-era landholdings were made available for sale because United States courts only recognized land titles to individual plots of land.

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True

Front 13

According to Social Darwinism, government should seek to help the poor, and build an activist state to regulate the nation’s corporations.

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False

Front 14

American presidents during the Gilded Age exerted strong, effective, executive leadership.

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False

Front 15

At the Battle of Little Big Horn, General George Armstrong Custer’s troops were victorious.

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False

Front 16

By the 1880s, the labor situation was as such that Texas cowboys even went on strike for higher pay.

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True

Front 17

By the early 1890s, a pension system for Union soldiers, their widows and children, consumed more than 40 percent of the federal budget.

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True

Front 18

Chapter 16: America’s Gilded Age, 1870-1890 | Give Me Liberty, 3e: W. W. Norton StudySpace

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True

Front 19

During the two decades following the Civil War which were known as the golden age of the cattle kingdom, cowboys were highly paid.

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False

Front 20

Following the Civil War generals like Philip H. Sheridan set out to destroy the foundations of the Indian economy.

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True

Front 21

Ida Tarbell authored the famous novel House of Mirth, which depicted the downfall of a young woman trying to "marry up" in society.

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False

Front 22

In 1869, President Ulysses S. Grant announced a new "peace policy" in the West.

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True

Front 23

In the late 1800s, California tried to attract immigrants by advertising its pleasant climate and the availability of land, although large-scale corporate farms were coming to dominate the state’s agriculture.

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True

Front 24

Inspired in part by President Garfield’s assassination by a disappointed office seeker, the Civil Service Act of 1883 created a merit system for federal employees,

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True

Front 25

Neither of the two main political parties embraced any serious federal program to cushion citizens from poverty or unemployment.

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True

Front 26

On 29 December 1890, soldiers killed between 150 and 200 Indians, most women and children, near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.

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True

Front 27

The Civil Service Act of 1883 marked the first step in establishing a professional civil service and removing officeholding from the hands of political machines.

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True

Front 28

The Democrats were the party of big government; the Republicans were the party of laissez-faire.

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False

Front 29

The Electricity Building at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 astonished visitors and illustrated how electricity was changing the visual landscape.

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True

Front 30

The extermination of the North American bison (buffalo) drastically undermined the livelihood of the Plains Indians.

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True

Front 31

The Haymarket Affair resulted in the hanging of four convicted anarchists.

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True

Front 32

The Knights of Labor regarded inequalities of wealth and power as a growing threat to American democracy.

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True

Front 33

The most famous Indian victory in American history took place in June 1876 when General George A. Custer and his 250 men perished.

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True

Front 34

The new Indian tribes that migrated to the Great Plains were greeted with open arms and friendly words by the Indians already living there.

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False

Front 35

The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which banned combinations and practices that restrain free trade, proved an immediate success, both for its clarity of language and ease of enforcement.

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False

Front 36

The Social Gospel movement concentrated on attacking individual sins such as drinking and Sabbath-breaking and saw nothing immoral about the pursuit of riches.

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False

Front 37

The term "Lochnerism" derived from the 1905 Supreme Court decision Lochner v. New York, in which the Court voided the state’s law establishing a 10-hour day maximum for bakers.

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True

Front 38

The West was a remarkably homogeneous region—only in the twentieth century would it become ethnically diverse.

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False

Front 39

Wage reductions were commonplace during economic downturns.

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True

Front 40

With the mechanization of manufacture, skilled workers virtually disappeared from industrial America.

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False

Front 41

Yale professor William Graham Sumner believed that America could achieve its ideals only with fair, progressive, taxation.

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False