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32 Cards in this Set
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In speaking of redemption in a political sense, white southerners of the reconstruction era made reference to
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ridding the south of reconstruction governments
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the sharecropping system in the south following the reconstruction had the effect of
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pushing tenant farmers, former slaves, and poor independent farmers into deep levels of debt to large landowners and merchants
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the election of 1876 resulted in controversy and dispute because
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a special congressional comission had to be created to determine the winner in three disputed states
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which of the following was a consequence of the shift to sharecropping and the crop lien system in the late 19th century south?
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a cycle of debt and depression for southern tenant farmers
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during reconstruction, southern blacks typically did hwich of the following?
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tilled farms as renters and sharecroppers
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why did congressional reconstruction end in 1877?
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the republicans and democrats effected a compromise agreement after the 1876 election
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the liberal republican recolt from the regular republican party in 1872 was moticated primarily by
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disgust at the corruption and scandals of the Grant administration
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the credit mobilier scandal incolced
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railroad construction kickbacks
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in her book century of dishonor, helen hunt jackson was particularly critical of the
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long series of broken promises and treaties by the federal government to the Indians
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The two industries that the transcontinental railroad most significantly expanded were
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mining and agriculture
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after the civil war, indians surrendered their lands only when they
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received solemn promise from the government that they would be left alone and procided with supplies on the remaining land
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the US government's outlawing of the Indian Sun (Ghost) Dance in 1890 resulted in
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battle of wounded knee
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first state to grant women suffrage
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wyoming
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the gilded age can best be described as a period of
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unbridled political corruption and unregulated business competition
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thomas edison
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incandescent lightbulb
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US vs. E.C. Knight company ruled that
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manufacturing was not interstate commerce
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vertical integration was pioneered by
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Andrew Carnegie
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John D. Rockefeller used all the tactics of business EXCEPT
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using federal agents to break his competitors
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first billion dollar company
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james morgans US STEEL
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horizontal integration was primarily a response to
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economic competition
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all of the following are true of RR expansion in the 19th century EXCEPT that it
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was financed by private corporations without government assistance
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clothing industry?
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sewing machine
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the single greatest factor helping to stimulate the amazing post-civil war industrialization was
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the railroad network
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How did the US gov initially react toward businesses and factories in the latter half of the 19th century?
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stayed out
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what group was the first target of songressional legislation restricting immigration expressly on the basis of nation origin?
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chinese
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which of the following labor organizations endorse bread and butter wages
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the american federation of labor
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result of Homestead steel strike
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the steel industry was crippled
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samuel gompers, head of American federation of labor, said
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trade unionism pire and simple
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in the late 19th century tax benefits and cheap nonunion labor especially attracted _______ manugactering
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textile
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Louis sullivans pupil who opposed the construction of skyscrapers and facored a form of architecture in harmony with natural surroundings was
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frank lloyd wright
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most persistent problem in cities in the last quarter of the 19th century?
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water and sewer systems
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which of the following statements about american cities between 1890 and 1930 is correct
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area of residence was based off of social class
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