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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The Dawes Severalty Act (1887) did all of the following EXCEPT: A) dissolved many tribes as legal entities. B) tried to make rugged individualists of the Indians. C) promoted Americanization of Native Americans. D) increased tribal ownership of land.

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increased tribal ownership of land.

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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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That a “talented tenth” should lead the race to full social and political equality with whites was the view of ...?

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W.E.B. DuBois

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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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All the following are true of the developments of the Gilded Age EXCEPT:
patents and corporations allowed businesses to expand by offering legal protections to business owners,
the invention of Thomas Edison replaced gas lights and kerosene lamps,
the invention of Alexander Graham Bell made it possible to communicate without knowledge of mores code,
the government attempted to regulate monopolies to facilitate economic growth

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the government attempted to regulate monopolies to facilitate economic growth

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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.