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US History II Exam 1

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How did the federal and state governments encourage railroad building in the nineteenth century?   show
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show "Due Process" clause of the 14th amendment  
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Which of the following was one of the reasons that the United States encourages Chinese immigration after the Civil War?   show
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In 1867, the United States bought Alaska from   show
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Which of the following describes the Homestead Act of 1862?   show
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show being mountains  
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Which of the following developments made open ranching feasible on Great Plains between the 1860s and the 1880s?   show
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Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the post- Civil War western cattle boom?   show
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show Steel plows and other farm machinery  
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show African Americans migrating to the Great Plains  
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show Single women made up between 5 and 20 percent of homesteaders in North Dakota  
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show  
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show Grant  
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The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was intended to   show
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Which of the following phenomena led the U.S. government to dismantle the Indian reservation system it had previously established?   show
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show The dance fostered native people's hopes that they could drive away white settlers  
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What was the result of the first wildlife protection bill passed by Congress in 1874?   show
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show Hailstorms  
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show Andrew Carnegie  
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Why was the strike by steelworkers at Homestead, Pennsylvania, significant?   show
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New corporate managers pioneered which system to track expenses and revenues in the late nineteenth century?   show
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show Assembly lines  
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show Such corporations control all aspects of their operations  
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show Horizontal integration  
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The United States had become the leading steel producer in the world by 1900 because of   show
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How did John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Corporation come to control 95 percent of the nation's oil refining capacity by the 1880s?   show
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show Catalogs  
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The development of print advertising illustrates the significance of which late nineteenth century phenomenon?   show
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Which magazine was the first to take advantages of advertising revenue to build mass leadership, with over one million subscribers?   show
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Which of the following was a consequence of mass production?   show
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The outcome of the implementation of scientific management was   show
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Which of the following statements characterizes the economics of working-class family life in the late nineteenth century?   show
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Why did so few African American men hold factory jobs in the United States in 1890?   show
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show They often planned on working and saving money for a few years before returning home  
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The federal government responded to the problem of discrimination against Chinese in nineteenth century California by   show
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show Specifically against Chinese  
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Hwy was the Haymarket incident of 1886 significant   show
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show The AFL focused on goals such as better wages, hours, and working conditions  
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