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| 1. Why did the government grow in size and responsibility in the late nineteenth century? |
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| Because society became more complex and interdependent |
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| 2. Why was the Interstate commerce commission created? |
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| To regulate commercial actvity that the states could not regulate (railroads) |
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| 2. What parts of the federal government grew in the late nineteenth century? |
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- The Department of Agriculture
- The Department of the Treasury
- Bureaucracy such as the ICC
- The Department of the Interior |
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| 4. What was the trend in regard to tariffs in the late nineteenth century? |
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| 5. What were political parties like in the late ninettenth century? |
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| State and local organizations using machines |
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| 6. What did the Pendleton Act do? |
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- Established a commission to set guidelines for civil service personnel
- Instituted a system of competitive examinations for civil service jobs
- Banned the assessment of money from salaries of appointees
- Spurred the development of regulatory societies |
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| 7. What efforts were made, in the late nineteenth century, to set higher standards in society, promote professionalism, and protect the public? |
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- Esablishment of the American Medical Association
- Establishment of the American Historical Association
- Passage of the Pendleton Act
- Passage of the Circuit Court of Appeals Act in 1891 |
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| 8. What did the Grangers do? |
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- Created cooperative enterprises to give farmers more control over their lives
- Responded to the farmers' frustration over falling farm prices and high interest rates
- Sponsored social occasions to allow farmers to improve their lives
- Built grain elevators and manufactured farm equipment |
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| 9. What were regional Farmers' Alliances advocating at the end of the 1880s? |
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- State ownership of the railroads
- Lower tariffs
- A graduated income tax
- Restricting land ownership in the US to citizens |
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| 10. How was the Great Uprising of 1877 supressed? |
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| With federal troops using deadly force (100+ killed) |
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| 11. What was the most effective organization advocating the right to vote for women in the late nineteenth century? |
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| The Women's Christian Temperance Union |
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| 12. What was true of the Women's Christian Temperance Union? |
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- Experimented with interracial cooperation in the South
- Preached total abstinence from alcoholic beverages
- Was a major advocate of women's suffrage
- Worked to reform the prison system |
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| 13. What did the Populists, who met in St. Louis in 1892, advocate? |
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- Government ownership of railroads, banks, and the telegraph
- The eight-hour day
- The graduaed income tax, and other reforms
- Prohibition of large landholding companies |
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| 14. What was true of the depression of 1893-1897? |
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- Had its origins in the overexpansion of the railroads
- The unemployed became subject to vagrancy laws and discrimination
- More than 150 banks went into receivership and 100s more closed
- People suffered from inadequate diet even though farm prices dropped to new lows |
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| 15. What did the strike by miners at Couer d'Alene, Idaho involve? |
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| Started out as a peaceful protes and ended up becoming violent |
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| 16. What resulted from the Homestead, Pennsylvania strike? |
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| In a defeat for the Union and lower pay and longer hours for the unions |
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| 17. How did the Pullman strike end? |
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| Federal troops fired on striker, killing 25 |
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| 18. Why did Eugene V. Debs become a socialist? |
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| He wanted to make the government responsive t workers |
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| 19. What did the Social Gospel movement try to do? |
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| To take action to reform society to benefit all |
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| 20. Who were the supporters of the Social Gospel movement? |
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Washington Gladden
W.T. Stead
Charles M. Sheldon
Edward Everett Hale |
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| 21. What organizations generally acted according to the Social Gospel movement? |
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- Young Women's Christian Association
- The Girls Friendly societies
- African America Society for racial uplift
- The Women's Christian Temperance Union |
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