Period 6 Review

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The Homestead Act (1862) assumed that public land should be administered in such a way as to...

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promote frontier settlement.

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The national government helped to finance transcontinental railroad construction in the late nineteenth century by providing railroad corporations with:

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land grants.

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In the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was constitutional and that “separate but equal” facilities were legally permissible.

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“separate but equal” facilities were legally permissible.

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At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African Americans using all the following EXCEPT: A) literacy requirements. B) poll taxes. C) grandfather clauses. D) the use of federal troops

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the use of federal troops

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As a leader of the African American community, Booker T. Washington…

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promoted black self-help but did not challenge segregation.

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The first great industrial trusts, the ____________ was organized through a principle of “horizontal integration” that ruthlessly incorporated or destroyed competitors.

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Standard Oil Company

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The major factor in drawing country people off the farms and into the big cities was: the development of the skyscraper, the availability of industrial jobs, the compact nature of those large communities, the advent of new housing structures known as dumbbell tenements.

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the availability of industrial jobs.

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Most “new” immigrants in the late 19th century...

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tried to preserve their Old Country culture in America.

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The Sherman Anti-Trust Act, although aimed at monopolies, was at first primarily used to curb the power of whom?

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labor unions

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Labor unrest in the 1870s and 1880s resulted in...

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many associating labor unions with radicalism.