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31 Cards in this Set
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Yale professor William Graham Sumner believed that America could achieve its ideals only with fair, progressive, taxation.
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False
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The Haymarket Affair resulted in the hanging of four convicted anarchists.
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True
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The West was a remarkably homogeneous region—only in the twentieth century would it become ethnically diverse.
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False
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The Electricity Building at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 astonished visitors and illustrated how electricity was changing the visual landscape.
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True
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The Democrats were the party of big government; the Republicans were the party of laissez-faire.
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False
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In the late 1800s, California tried to attract immigrants by advertising its pleasant climate and the availability of land, although large-scale corporate farms were coming to dominate the state’s agriculture.
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True
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According to Social Darwinism, government should seek to help the poor, and build an activist state to regulate the nation’s corporations.
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False
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Following the Civil War generals like Philip H. Sheridan set out to destroy the foundations of the Indian economy.
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True
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Wage reductions were commonplace during economic downturns.
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True
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The Social Gospel movement concentrated on attacking individual sins such as drinking and Sabbath-breaking and saw nothing immoral about the pursuit of riches.
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False
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Ida Tarbell authored the famous novel House of Mirth, which depicted the downfall of a young woman trying to "marry up" in society.
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False
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The new Indian tribes that migrated to the Great Plains were greeted with open arms and friendly words by the Indians already living there.
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False
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With the mechanization of manufacture, skilled workers virtually disappeared from industrial America.
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False
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A significant amount of Mexican-era landholdings were made available for sale because United States courts only recognized land titles to individual plots of land.
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True
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The extermination of the North American bison (buffalo) drastically undermined the livelihood of the Plains Indians.
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True
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Chapter 16: America’s Gilded Age, 1870-1890 | Give Me Liberty, 3e: W. W. Norton StudySpace
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True
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By the 1880s, the labor situation was as such that Texas cowboys even went on strike for higher pay.
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True
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Neither of the two main political parties embraced any serious federal program to cushion citizens from poverty or unemployment.
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True
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At the Battle of Little Big Horn, General George Armstrong Custer’s troops were victorious.
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False
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"Vertically integration" is defined as one company controlling every phase of the business from raw materials to transportation, manufacturing, and distribution.
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True
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By the early 1890s, a pension system for Union soldiers, their widows and children, consumed more than 40 percent of the federal budget.
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True
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The most famous Indian victory in American history took place in June 1876 when General George A. Custer and his 250 men perished.
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True
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The term "Lochnerism" derived from the 1905 Supreme Court decision Lochner v. New York, in which the Court voided the state’s law establishing a 10-hour day maximum for bakers.
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True
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The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which banned combinations and practices that restrain free trade, proved an immediate success, both for its clarity of language and ease of enforcement.
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False
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In 1869, President Ulysses S. Grant announced a new "peace policy" in the West.
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True
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During the two decades following the Civil War which were known as the golden age of the cattle kingdom, cowboys were highly paid.
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False
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American presidents during the Gilded Age exerted strong, effective, executive leadership.
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False
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On 29 December 1890, soldiers killed between 150 and 200 Indians, most women and children, near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.
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True
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The Civil Service Act of 1883 marked the first step in establishing a professional civil service and removing officeholding from the hands of political machines.
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True
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Inspired in part by President Garfield’s assassination by a disappointed office seeker, the Civil Service Act of 1883 created a merit system for federal employees,
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True
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The Knights of Labor regarded inequalities of wealth and power as a growing threat to American democracy.
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True
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