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| The unique achievement of congressional Reconstruction was that |
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| former slaves participated in the new governments. |
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| The sharecropping and crop-lien systems that developed in the post-Civil War South |
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| contributed to soil depletion, agricultural backwardness, and southern poverty. |
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| The political organization that Boss Tweed dominated to gain control of New York City was |
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| The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution |
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| Which of the following were the largest landholders in the West by 1900? |
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| The Patrons of Husbandry was |
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| an organization of farmers, also called the Grange. |
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| The "range wars" pitted which two groups against each other? |
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| The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 occurred when |
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| thousands of settlers rushed into the Oklahoma Territory on April 22, 1889, to stake out homesteads. |
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| The use of technology in industry in the second half of the nineteenth century |
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| made it possible for manufacturers to hire cheap unskilled or semiskilled labor |
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| In the West, the immigrants who built the railroads and bore the brunt of labor hostility in the 1870s and 1880s were |
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| Chinese and Irish Catholic. |
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| The Radical Republicans in Congress believed it was essential to |
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| ensure the civil and political rights of the freedmen. |
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| After the Civil War, most Southern blacks worked |
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| The outcome of the disputed presidential election of 1876 was significant because it |
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| brought an end to Reconstruction. |
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| The rapid development of railroads in the United States was accomplished |
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| with the help of some of the largest government subsidies ever granted. |
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| Which of the following was true of farming on the Plains? |
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| Farming was made possible by inventions such as barbed wire, windmills and the steel plow |
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| Although the courts had great difficulty in interpreting what the Sherman Anti-Trust Act meant by restraint of trade, they had little difficulty in applying it to |
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| The largest business combination in early twentieth-century America was the |
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| New immigrants into the United States in the 1880s came primarily from |
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| southern and eastern Europe. |
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| Which of the following statements best expresses the belief of most middle-and upper-class Americans about poverty in the late nineteenth century? |
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| The poor are poor because of their own personal weaknesses. |
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| Advertising is necessary in a society in which |
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| the supply of goods is greater than the demand for those goods. |
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| Federal government Indian policy between 1876 and 1900 was characterized by |
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| a movement to encourage Indians to “assimilate” by learning white ways of life. |
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| The philosophy of the “New South” advocates stressed |
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| a policy promoting industrialization of the southern economy. |
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| In their approach to union organization, the National Labor Union and the Knights of Labor were alike, in that they |
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| welcomed both skilled and unskilled workers. |
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| The Sherman Anti-trust Act was rendered ineffective after its passage because |
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| its wording was too vague. |
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| The main cause of the Panic of 1873 was |
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| excessive speculation in railroad building. |
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