Industrialization to WWI

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The Bessemer process was crucial in the development of

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skyscrapers.

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Which of the following was an illegal action under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
- organizing a widespread labor strike
- hiring laborers for long hours and low wages
- selling shares of a business with little financial security
- creating a large business that aims to eliminate market competition

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creating a large business that aims to eliminate market competition

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What can you infer from the fact that 1 in 5 children worked in a factory in the late 1800s?

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Children who worked often received little education.

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The men standing on a dock facing the man coming onshore represent

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nativists.

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The Knights of Labor was formed with the goal of

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broad social reform for laborers.

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How did the U.S. government encourage American industry in the late nineteenth century? Options: by enforcing the 14th amendment, by enacting protective tariffs, by subsidizing the steel industry, by passing laws to protect workers

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by enacting protective tariffs

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How did the Haymarket Riot hurt the labor movement?

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Many Americans came to believe that union members were violent anarchists.

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This law was aimed at assimilating Native Americans by offering reservation land on the condition of renouncing their tribes...

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The Dawes Act

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This invention was completed in Promontory Point, Utah in 1869 and united the East and West coasts of the United States.

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The Transcontinental Railroad

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What precious metal was found in California in 1848, and in Klondike(Alaska) in 1896?

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Gold