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25 Cards in this Set
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Which was the most major factor drawing people out of rural areas and into big cities? |
availability of industrial jobs
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Which of the following is one of the early symbols of the dawning era of consumerism in urban America? |
department stores |
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Which of the following best describes New Immigrants who came to the United States after 1880? |
New immigrants were culturally different from previous immigrants |
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New Immigrant groups were regarded with special hostility by many nativist Americans because
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their religions were distinctly different and some New Immigrants were politically radical.
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Which of the following best explains why big city political bosses and their machines, though often criticized, proved necessary and effective in the new urban environment? |
they were more effective in serving urban immigrants' needs than weak state or local governments |
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The Darwinian theory of organic evolution through natural selection had which of the following effects on American religion? |
it created a split between religious conservatives and accomodationists
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In the 1890s, white collar positions for women as secretaries, department store clerks, and telephone operators, were largely reserved for which of the following groups of people?
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native-born Americans
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The new, research-oriented modern American university tended to do which of the following? |
de-emphasize religious and moral instruction in favor of practical and professional specialization
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Which of the following best explains why American support for a free public education system grew in this period? |
because they accepted the idea that a free government cannot function without educated citizens |
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In criticizing Booker T. Washington's educational emphasis on manual labor and industrial training, W.E.B. DuBois emphasized instead that black education should concentrate on which of the following? |
an intellectually gifted talented tenth
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Who were the two late-nineteenth-century newspaper publishers whose competition for circulation fueled the rise of sensationalistic yellow journalism? |
William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer
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The Dawes Severalty Act was designed to promote Indian |
assimilation. |
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In which of the following did the mining frontier play a vital role? |
attracting the first substantial white population to the West
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Which of the following represents one major problem with the Homestead Act? |
160 acres were inadequate for productive farming on the rain-scarce Great Plains
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Which of the following most persuaded Europeans to come to America to farm on the northern frontier? |
railroad agents who offered to sell them cheap land
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Which of the following statements about the Homestead Act is not true? |
it was consistent with previous government public land policy designed to raise revenue |
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Which of the following best describes the original intent behind the foundation of The Farmer's Alliance? |
to break the economic grip of the railroads through farmers' cooperatives |
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The severe economic depression of the 1890s strengthened which of the following Populist arguments? |
wage earners and farmers alike were victims of an oppressive economic system
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Which of the following best describes why, during the 1892 presidential election, large numbers of southern white farmers refused to desert the Democrats in favor of the Populists? |
the history of racial division in the region made it too hard to cooperate with blacks
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Which of the following best describes the effect the depression of the 1890s and episodes like the Pullman Strike had on the election of 1896? |
they made the election become a battle between struggling workers and farmers and establishment conservatives |
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Which of the following was not among the qualifications that helped William McKinley earn the Republican presidential nomination in 1896? |
He was an energetic and charismatic campaigner.
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Which of the following is a primary reason that William Jennings Bryan gained the presidential nomination of the Democratic party? |
the eloquently supported the farmers' demand for the unlimited coinage of silver
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In the election of 1896, which of the following was the most major issue? |
free and unlimited coinage of silver
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The 1896 presidential election marked the last time that |
a serious effort to win the White House would be made with mostly agrarian votes.
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Which of the following best describes the characteristics of President William McKinley? |
cautious and conservative |
