Term
What best describes the
experiences of most emancipated slaves
following Reconstruction? |
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Definition
They were forced back onto the plantations
as sharecroppers. |
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Term
| The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 provided for |
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Definition
temporary Union military supervision of the
former Confederacy |
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Term
The second Sioux war (1875–1876), in which
Custer was defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn,
was caused by: |
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Definition
the extension of the route of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, the gold rush in the Black Hills, corruption within the Department of
the Interior, overland migration of settlers to the
Pacific Northwest |
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Term
“This, then, is held to be the duty of the man
of wealth: to consider all surplus revenues which
come to him simply as trust funds, which he is
called upon to administer and strictly bound as a
matter of duty to administer in the manner
which, in his judgment, is best calculated to
produce the most benefi cial results for the
community—”
The sentiments expressed above are most
characteristic of: |
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Definition
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Term
Reformers of the Progressive era proposed these changes in city government and
politics at the turn of the century: |
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Definition
| civil service, home rule for cities, city manager and commission governments, nonpartisan elections |
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Term
The anticombination laws passed by numerous
states in the late 1880s were a response to which
of the following organizational innovations? |
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Definition
The use of stockholding trusts to create
business monopolies |
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Term
Which of the following constituted a significant
change in the treatment of American Indians
during the last half of the nineteenth century? |
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Definition
The division of tribal lands among individual
members |
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Term
Which of the following would have been most
likely to vote for William Jennings Bryan in
1896? |
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Definition
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Term
Unionization efforts in the late nineteenth
century were countered by the |
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Definition
| use of federal troops to help defeat strikes |
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Term
Which of the following best states the goals of
the “pure and simple unionism” advocated by
Samuel Gompers? |
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Definition
Labor unions should concentrate on
increasing wages and benefi ts. |
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