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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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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.

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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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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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one-third

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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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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.

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"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

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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

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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

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

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False

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

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False

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

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True

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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

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

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True

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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

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

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True

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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

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

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True

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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

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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

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

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True

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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

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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

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

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False

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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

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

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True

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

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True

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

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True

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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False

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Wage reductions were commonplace during economic downturns.

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True

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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

Front 42

A leading opponent of American imperialism was

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William Jennings Bryan.

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Between 1879 and 1880, an estimated 40,000–60,000 African Americans migrated to:

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Kansas.

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During the 1880s, the South as a regional whole:

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sank deeper and deeper into poverty.

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From 1880 to the mid-twentieth century, the number of people lynched reached nearly:

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5,000.

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In 1900, in the entire South, how many public high schools for blacks existed?

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none

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In February 1898, what ship exploded in Havana Harbor with a loss of nearly 270 lives:

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the battleship Maine

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The 1892 People’s Party platform, written by Ignatius Donnelly and adopted at the party’s Omaha convention, proposed all of the following except:

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a decentralization over the control of currency.

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The 1892 presidential election was won by:

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Grover Cleveland, the Democrat.

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The 1897 Dingley Tariff:

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raised tariff rates to their highest level in American history to that time.

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The coalition of merchants, planters, and business entrepreneurs who dominated politics in the American South after 1877 called themselves:

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Redeemers.

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The congressman from Nebraska who was the Democratic Party nominee for president in 1896, and who called for the “free coinage” of silver was:

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William Jennings Bryan.

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The immigrants facing the harshest reception in late nineteenth-century America were those arriving from

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China.

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The largest citizens’ movement of the nineteenth century was:

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the Farmers Alliance.

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The leader of the band of several hundred unemployed men who marched on Washington in May 1894 to demand economic relief was:

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Jacob Coxey.

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The name for the coalition of black Republicans and anti-Redeemer Democrats that governed the state of Virginia from 1879 to 1883 was:

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the Readjuster movement.

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The nation’s urban working class voters shifted their support en masse to the Republican Party in 1894 in significant degree because:

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Republicans claimed that raising tariff rates would restore prosperity by protecting manufacturers and industrial workers from the competition of cheap imported goods.

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The Redeemers in the South:

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slashed state budgets, cut taxes, and reduced spending on hospitals and public schools.

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The Women’s Christian Temperance Union began by demanding the prohibition of alcoholic drinks, but developed into an organization:

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calling for a comprehensive program of economic and political reforms, including the right to vote.

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The “subtreasury plan” was:

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a plan to establish federal warehouses where farmers could store crops until they were sold.

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What 1893 United States Supreme Court decision authorized the federal government to expel Chinese aliens without due process of law?

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Fong Yue Ting

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What landmark United States Supreme Court decision gave approval to state laws requiring separate facilities for whites and blacks?

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Plessy vs. Ferguson.

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What war lasted from 1899 to 1903, in which 4,200 Americans and over 100,000 Filipinos perished?

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the Philippine War

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What was the name of the 1899 policy established by Secretary of State John Hay with regard to China?

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the Open Door policy

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What was the name of the labor organization of principally white, male, skilled workers that arose in the 1880s and was headed by Samuel Gompers?

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the American Federation of Labor

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What was the name of the naval officer and his 1890 book that argued that no nation could prosper without a large fleet of ships engaged in international trade, protected by a powerful navy operating overseas bases?

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Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History

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What was the name of the railroad car company against which workers struck in 1894?

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Pullman

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Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

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Kansas Exodus; Civil Rights Cases; Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta address; Plessy v. Ferguson

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Which of the following was not a central principle of the American Federation of Labor?

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It is vital that unions include workers of all backgrounds, regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, or skill.

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Which of the following was not a factor behind the spread of segregation and disfranchisement laws in the South?

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a growing insistence by blacks that whites simply leave them alone

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Which of the following was not a grievance of the Farmers Alliance and the Populists?

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excessive power of the labor unions

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Which of the following was not a leading strategy of the Populists?

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using vigilante tactics to intimidate farmers who failed to join the cause

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Which of the following was not a major reason for America’s imperial expansion?

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a desire to broaden the exposure of Americans to different cultures

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Which was not one of the devices used by Southern whites to keep blacks from exercising suffrage?

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a religious test

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Which was not principally one of the networks by which women exerted a growing influence on public affairs in the late nineteenth century?

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political party organizations

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Who was the African-American leader who delivered a speech in 1895 at the Atlanta Cotton Exposition urging black Americans to adjust to segregation and stop agitating for civil and political rights?

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Booker T. Washington

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Who was the future American president who made a national name for himself by charging up San Juan Hill with the Rough Riders?

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Theodore Roosevelt

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“The splendid little war” of 1898 was:

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the Spanish-American War.