APUSH Period 6 Review

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The Homestead Act 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:
 dissolved many tribes as legal entities,
 tried to make rugged individualists of the Indians,
 promoted Americanization of Native Americans,
 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

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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: Literacy requirements, Poll taxes, Grandfather clauses, 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 education 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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Who led Tammany Hall in NYC?

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William "Boss Tweed"

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The major factor in drawing country people off the farms and into the big cities was

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the availability of industrial jobs