APUSH Unit 6 Review
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| Which of the following was the most broadly based labor organization in the late nineteenth century? | Knights of Labor
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| All of the following accoung for nativist sentiment against the "new immigrants" of the late nineteenth century EXCEPT that immigrants | dominated the professions of law, medicine, and engineering
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| Which of the following was primarily responsible for the declining death rate in American cities at the end of the nineteenth century? | cities built sewers and supplied purified water
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| Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor was significant because it aroused public awareness of the | wrongs that the federal government had inflicted on American Indians
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| The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 was | not immediately successful limiting business concentration
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| Which of the planks from the 1892 Populist Party platform showed a concern with issues raised by organized labor? | Restrictions on immigration
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| By the end of his presidency, Ulysses Grant's popularity had declined substantially because of | the corruption evident in his administration
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| "Forty acres and a mule" refers to | the proposal to make freed slaves small-scale farmers
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| The passage explains which problem that farmers faced in the late nineteenth century? | long vs. short hauls
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| The first federal law to restrict immigration, passed in 1882, was aimed at | excluding Chinese immigrants
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| The political cartoonist who eneded Boss Tweed's career is credited with popularizing the donkey and the elephant as symbols for the Democratic and Republican parties. He was | Thomas Nast
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| The injunction as a court order was often used in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to | prevent labor unions from striking
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| For the period from the end of Reconstruction to 1900, the position of the Supreme Court toward civil rights is best characterized as | establishing the constitutionality of segregation
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| Thomas Nast achieved fame and influence as a | political cartoonist
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| Immigrants coming to America from Eastern and Southern Europe during the late 19th century were most likely to | settle in large cities in the Northeast or Midwest
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| The Haymarket Incident involved | a riot between striking workers and police
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| The "New Immigration" was made up primarily of | persons rom Southern and Eastern Europe
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| Which of the following is true of W.E.B. DuBois? | he worked closely with Booker T. Washington
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| Which of the following was among the objectives of Booker T. Washington? | to encourage blacks to work hard, acquire property, and prove they were worthy of their rights
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| All of the following groups were cowboys except | Chinese
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| The Indians battled whties for all of the following reasons, EXCEPT to | rescue their women who had been exiled to Florida
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| The buffalo were nearly exterminated | through wholesale butchery by whites
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| Thomas Edison was instrumental in the invention of | electric light
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| Some people who found fault with the captains of industry argued that these men | diminished the workers' quality of life
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| In the late nineteenth century, those political candidates who campaigned by "waving the bloody shirt" were reminding voters | of the "treason" of the Confederate Democrats during the Civil War
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| The Crédit Moblilier scandal involved | railraod construction kickbacks
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| One cause of the panic that broke in 1873 was | the construction of more factories than existing markets would bear
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| The sequence of presidential terms fo the "forgettable presidents" of the Gilded Age was | Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland
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| In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that | "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional
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| The Compromise of 1877 resulted in | the withdrawal of federal troops from the South
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| The Pendleton Act required appointees to public office to | take a competitive examination
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| The "Billion-Dollar Congress" quickly disposed of rising government surpluses by | building an expensive new steel navy & expanding pensions for Civil War veterans
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| Which of the following was NOT among the platform planks adopted by the Populist Party in their convention of 1892? | governement gurantees of "parity prices" for farmers
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| President Grover Cleveland aroused widespread public anger by his action of | borrowing $65 million in gold from J.P. Morgan's banking syndicate
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| The greatest political beneficiary of the backlash against President Cleveland in the Congressional elections of 1894 were | the Republicans
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| In the Gilded Age, "hard money" policies were reflected in | the Resumption Act of 1875, contraction, the position of the Greenback Labor party
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| The first federal regulatory agency designed to protect the public interst from business combinations was the | Interstate Commerce Commission
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| Andrew Carnegie was associated with | vertical integration
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| John D. Rockefeller was associated with | trusts
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| J.P. Morgan was associated with | interlocking directorate
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| The method used by J.P. Morgan was call | interlocking directorate
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| The "gospel of wealth" which associated godliness with riches | based its theology on the sayings of Jesus
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| National Labor Union was | a social-reform union killed by the depression of 1873
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| Knights of Labor was | the one "big union" that championed producer cooperation arbitration
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| American Federation of Labor was | an association of unions pursuing higher wages, shorter, & better working conditions
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| Which one of the following has the LEAST in common with the other four? | bedroom communities
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| Settlement houses such as Hull House engaged in all the following activities EXCEPT | social reform lobbying
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| Booker T. Washington believed that the key to political and civil rights for African Americans was | economic independence
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| That a "talented tenth" of American blacks should lead the race to full social and political equality with whites was the view of | W.E.B. DuBois
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| Henry George believed that the root of social inequality and social injustice lay in | landowners who gained unearned wealth from rising land values
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| Lewis Wallace was associated with | anti-Darwinism support for the Holy Scriptures
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| Horatio Alger was associated with | success and honor as the products of honesty and hard work
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| Henry James was associated with | psychological realism and the dilemmas of sophisticated women
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| William Dean Howells was associated with | contemporary social problems like divorce, and labor strikes
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| Chief Joseph was the chief of the | Nez Pearce
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| Sitting Bull was the chief of the | Sioux
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| Geronimo was the chief of the | Apache
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| A Century of Dishonor (1881), which chronicled the dismal history of Indian-white relations, was authored by | Helen Hunt Jackson
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| To assimilate Indians into American society, the Dawes Act did all of the following EXCEPT | outlaw the sacred Sun Dance
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| The United States government's outlawing of the Indian Sun (Ghost) Dance in 1890 resulted in the | Battle of Wounded Knee
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| The Dawes Severalty Act was designed to promote Indian | assimilation
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| The first major farmers' organization was the | Farmers' Alliance
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| The Farmers' Alliance was formed to | take action to break the strangling grip of the railroads
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| Jacob Coxey and his "army" marched on Washington D.C. to | demand that the government relieve unemployment with a public works program
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| President Grover Cleveland justified federal intervention in the Pullman Strike of 1894 on the grounds that | the strike was preventing the transit of U.S. mail
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| Richard Olney was thw | United States attorney general who brought in federal troops to crush the strike
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| Eugene V. Debs was the | head of the American Railway Union that organized the strike
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| George Pullman was the | owner of the "palace railroad car" company and the company town
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| John P. Altgeld was teh | governor of Illinois who sympathized with the striking workers
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| The Depression of the 1890s and episodes like the Pullman Strike made the election of 1896 shape up as | a battle between down-and-out workers and farmers and establishment conservatives
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| Who wrote the book Looking Backward which looked forward to a future of socialism in America? | Edward Bellamy
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| According to Henry George, | there was a wide gulf between rich and poor
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| The leading American advocate of Social Darwinism was | William Graham Sumner
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| The Social Darwinists | believed the laws of nature applied to every society
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| Booker T. Washington | believed African Americans should fight for equal rights
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| What gave large grants of land to states to establish agricultural colleges? | Morrill Land Grant Act
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| The most famous of the urban political bosses in the late nineteenth century was | William Tweed
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| As the new immigrants entered American society | they quickly assimilated into the society
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| By the end of the nineteenth century, most immigrants arrived from | Southern and Eastern Europe
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| Building the new skyscrapers depended on the invention of | electical elevators
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| The Haymarket Square riot | strengthened the national labor movement
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| The Homestead Strike | forced management to meet the workers' demands
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| In the 1905 decision of Lochner v. New York, the Supreme Court | struck down a state law limiting the number of hours workers worked each week
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| As the leader of the American Federation of Labor, he tried to achieve pragmatic goals for his workers. | Samuel Gompers
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| The leader of the Knights of Labor was | Terrence Powderly
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| Who invited women and minorities to join? | Knights of Labor
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| Each of the following companies was a large scale retailer in the late nineteenth century EXCEPT | Wal-Mart
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| The first modern trust was | Standard Oil
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| In which type of organization does a company own all elements from raw material to finished product? | vertical integration
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| The two transcontinental railroad lines met at | Promontory, Utah
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| The aging American poet who most feared the impact of new industrial technologies on American life was | John Greenleaf Whittier
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| Frederick Jackson Turner was | the historian who first developed the frontier thesis
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| What was established to help provide isolated farmers with social and cultural activities? | National Grange
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| The inventor of barbed wire was | Joseph Glidden
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| The Homestead Act of 1862 failed because | the land allotments were insufficient for farming arid land
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| Buffalo soldiers were | African American calvarymen
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| Which of the following was, perhaps, the greatest Native American victory over the Unites States army? | Custer's Last Stand
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