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What Methodist minister led a militia force at the Sand Creek Massacre which occurred in Colorado in 1864?
John Chivington
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What Indian tribe was the most powerful of the Plains Indians which forced the advancing whites to retreat in the Second Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868?
the Sioux,
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What Congressional act in 1887 divided tribal lands among individual Indians as a way to turn the Indians into farmers?
Dawes Act,
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What state did the first important gold rush in the Rocky Mountains occur in 1859?
Colorado,
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What person in the book Roughing It (1872) wrote that men became influential in mining towns by selling whiskey?
Mark Twain,
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Southern ________ was the area of origin of the cattle industry.
Texas,
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The _______ Trail stretched from Texas through Indian territory to Abilene, Kansas.
Chisholm Trail,
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At what battle in Montana was Colonel George A. Custer defeated and killed by the Sioux Indians in June 1876?
Little Big Horn,
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The westward expansion had all of the following effects upon the United States except:
Vast wealth for many pioneers.
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The Western agriculture/farming frontier benefited from all of thefollowing advances in technology except
The development of the cotton gin.
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What major political party was strongest in the South during the late nineteenth century?
Democratic,
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In the 1870's what new minor political party favored currency inflation and laws to support labor?
Greenback party,
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Conservative reformers known as _______ opposed the tariff and government regulation, and favored civil service reform.
Mugwumps,
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What name was given to the system within the federal bureaucracy where politicians awarded government jobs to party workers, with little regard for qualified candidates?
spoils system,
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What Congressional act in 1883 substantially reformed the federal bureaucracy by creating a commission to oversee government workers' appointments on the basis of merit rather than politics?
Pendleton Civil Service Act,
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Originating in Texas, the _______ Alliance was a major force helping those in agriculture.
Southern Farmers' Alliance,
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In 1892, the Populist party's _______ platform rejected laissez-faire capitalism and demanded government ownership of the railroads and the telegraph and telephone systems.
Omaha Platform,
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What was the first federal regulatory agency which was established in 1887 to oversee railroad practices and business abuses?
Interstate Commerce Act,
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All of the following were great issues which dominated the national political arena in the late Nineteenth century except
Social Security reform.
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The Presidents in the period from 1868 until the late 1890s were known for
Their weak use of Presidential powers.
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What minor/third political party was founded by Eugene Debs which criticized the industrial economy?
Socialist Party of America,
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What U.S. Constitutional Amendment was a major victory for the women's suffrage movement by gaining the right to vote?
Nineteenth Amendment.
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What new political reform allowed voters to propose legislation in state government?
initiative,
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Robert LaFollette pushed through many progressive reforms in the state of _______?
Wisconsin,
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What Congressional act in 1906 gave the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to set maximum railroad rates and extended its jurisdiction?
Hepburn Act,
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Reflecting his view of only limited government involvement in the economy, Woodrow Wilson's 1912 election program was called the _______ in contrast to Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism.
New Freedom,
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Louis Brandeis was the first _______ to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Jew,
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What President became known as the "trust buster" in his attempt to control the formation of large business combinations?
Theodore Roosevelt,
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What 1913 Congressional act created a system of twelve regional banks and a national board to control the money supply?
Federal Reserve act.
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What was the most radical labor organization in the United States in 1905, which was organized around unskilled and foreign-born laborers who often urged social revolution?
The Industrial Workers of the World.
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