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| The major factor in drawing the country people off the farm and into the big cities was |
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| the availability of industrial jobs |
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| A "bird of passage" was an immigrant who |
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| came to America to work for a short time and then returned to Europe |
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| tried to preserve their old country culture in america |
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| Booker T. Washington believed that the key to political and civil rights for African Americans was |
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| Black leader Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois |
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| demanded complete equality for African Americans |
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| During the industrial revolution, life expectancy |
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| By 1900, advocates of women's suffrage |
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| argued that the vote would enable women to extend their roles as mothers and homemakers to the public world |
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| In the course of the late nineteenth century |
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| family size gradually declined |
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| One of the early symbols of the dawning era of consumerism in urban America was |
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| the rise of large department stores |
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| The Darwinian theory of organic evolution through natural selection affected American religion by |
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| creating a split between religious conservatives who denied evolution and "accomodationists" who supported it |
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