Elk v. Wilkins (1884) |
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agreed with lower cout rulings that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments did not apply to Indians |
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Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller |
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built up giant corporations that dominated their respective markets. |
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The over 150 utopian and cataclysmic novels published during the las quarter of the nineteenth century |
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were inspired by the growing fear of class warfare. |
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The Plains Indians |
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included the Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Kiowa, and Sioux. |
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Which mode of transportation is usually associated with the second industrial revolution? |
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railroads |
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In the nineteenth century, pools, trusts, and mergers were |
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ways manufacturers sought to control the marketplace |
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During the second industrial revolution, the courts |
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tended to favor the interests of industry over those of labor. |
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For workers, the second industrial revolution meant |
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all of the above |
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The theory of Social Darwinism argued that |
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the theory of evolution applied to humans, thus explaining why some were rich and some were poor. |
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The second industrial revolution was marked by |
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the acceleration of factory production and increased activity in the mining and railroad industries. |
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The Haymarket Affair |
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was provoked by the 1886 bombing at a Chicago labor rally. |
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The Ghost Dance |
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was a religious revitalization campaign among Indians, feared by whites. |
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In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis |
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focused on the wretched conditions of New York City slums. |
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Which event marked the end of the Indian wars? |
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Battle of Wounded Knee |
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What was the merit system for federal employees called? |
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The Civil Service Act |
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The Greenback-Labor Party |
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needs answer?????????? |
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"Boss" William M. Tweed was a(n) |
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political boss |
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Thomas Edison |
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invented, among other thins, a system for generating and distributing electricity. |
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Social Darwinism in America |
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All of the above |
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Which city becvame the world's center for iron and steel manufacturing? |
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Pittsburgh |
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Bonanza farms |
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typically had 3,000 or more acres. |
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Henry George argued in Progress and Poverty that poverty sprang from |
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a denial of justice. |
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One of the reasons that the Great Strike of 1877 was imported is that |
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it understood the tensions produced by the rapid industrialization of the time. |
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Elections during the Gilded Age |
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were closely contested affairs. |
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The hearland of the second industrial revolution was in |
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the Great Lakes region |
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The Indian victory at Little Bighorn |
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only temporarily delayed the advance of white settlement. |
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The Dawes Act |
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divided tribal lands into parcels of land for Indian families. |
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Henry George offered a solutions of a _____ for the problem of inequity in Americal. |
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Single tax |
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The Social Gospel |
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called for an equalization of wealth and power |
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The Knights of Labor |
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was an inclusive organization that advocated for a vast array of reforms. |
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In the late nineteenth century, social thinkers such as Edward Bellamy, Henry George, and Lawrence Gronlund offered numerous plans for change primarily because they were alarmed by a fear of |
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class warfare and the growing power of conentrated capital. |
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The Civil Service Act of 1883 |
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created a merit system for government workers. |
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Republican economic policies strongly favored |
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eastern industrialists and bankers. |
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The idea for the Statue of Liverty orginiated as a response to the |
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assassination of Abraham Lincoln |
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What did hunters shoot while riding the railroads across the West? |
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Buffalo |
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The economic development of the American West was based on |
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tourism, lumber, and mining industries, as well as farming. |
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Who did not deal, in some literary way, with the subject of America's poor? |
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Charles Darwin |
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What was not a cause of the explosive economic growth experienced by the United States between 1870-1890? |
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Low tariffs |
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Which statement about labor and the law is false? |
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Workers generally welcomed the court's decisions on industry. |
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Who ran for mayor of New York in 1886 on a Labor ticket? |
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Henry George |
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The era from 1870 to 1890 was known as the |
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Gilded Age. |
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Who insisted that freedom and spiritual self-development required an equalizaion of wealth and power and that unbridled competition mocked the Christian ideal of brotherhood? |
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Herbert Spencer |
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William Tweed was a (n) |
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political boss who, although corrupt, provided important services to New Yorkers. |
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The _____ made possible the second industrial revolution in America. |
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railroads |
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Credit Mobiler and the Whiskey Ring |
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were indicative of the corruption in the Grant administration |
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An example of what the economist and social historian Thorstein Veblen meant by conspicious consumption is |
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Mrs. Bradley Martin's costume ball. |
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The American working class |
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lived in desperate conditions |
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What did William Graham Sumner believe social classes owed each other? |
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Nothing at all. |
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Henry George rejected the traditional equation of liberty with |
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ownership of land |
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After the civil war, which became symbols of a life of freedom on the open range? |
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cowboys |
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no question |
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no answer |
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