Fall Final U.S. History Flashcard

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Which Reconstruction-era practice severely limited Black voting rights in the South? Options: Black Codes, Poll taxes and literacy tests, Sharecropping, The Pendleton Act

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Black Codes

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What business practice did John D. Rockefeller use to eliminate competition by combining companies that performed different steps in production?

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Horizontal integration

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Who believed that African Americans could achieve equality through economic independence before addressing civil rights?

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Booker T. Washington

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Which Progressive Era writer exposed the unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry?

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Upton Sinclair

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What was the primary goal of the Committee of Public Information during World War I?

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To manage war propaganda

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The 'talented tenth' concept was promoted by: The Harlem Hellfighters, W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Boss Tweed

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W.E.B. Du Bois

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What legislation made it illegal to criticize the U.S. government during World War I?

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The Espionage and Sedition Acts

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Political machines gained support primarily through: Reform legislation, Industrial monopolies, Providing services to immigrants, Progressive movements

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Providing services to immigrants

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President Wilson's Fourteen Points included: Black Codes, The League of Nations, Vertical integration, The Pendleton Act

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The League of Nations

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The Gilded Age was characterized by: Government regulation, Economic equality, Political reform, Industrial monopolies

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Industrial monopolies