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Which of the following acts established the Department of Agriculture?
Morrill Land Grant Act
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During industrialization, what was Lowell, Massachusetts known for
Cotton mills
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Supporters of a laissez-faire form of government believed that government regulation of:
- Business would
- Harm economic growth.
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The Radical Republicans wanted Lincoln�s reconstruction plans to include
a guarantee that African-American Southerners would have equality with whites.
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What action signified the end of the Civil War?
the signing of surrender papers in Appomattox, Virginia
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Which of the following terms means farm building or a place to store grain?
grange
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What group of people rented land to farm
tenant farmers
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Which statement supports social Darwinism?
The most talented people will come out on top.
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The Pinkertons were called to put down this strike.
Homestead Strike
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Who built a large steel corporation in the 1800s?
Andrew Carnegie
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The �New South� included
plantations and factories to process the crops.
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What was the railroad track that began in Omaha, Nebraska and traveled West?
Union Pacific Railroad
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In the late 1800s, most American wealth was held by what percentage of Americans?
less than 10 percent
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Out of what material did many of the pioneer families in the Plains States build houses?
sod
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_______ made money in the banking industry.
John Pierpont Morgan
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Buying up businesses at each phase of the manufacturing process is called
vertical integration.
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Which of the following was used to legalize discrimination against African-American Southerners?
black codes
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What are informal business alliances among owners who manufactured similar products called?
cartels
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Many people established farms under this federal bill.
Homestead Act
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Over __________ Confederate soldiers died during the Civil War.
250,000
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______ replaced waterpower to run factories.
Coal
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Which of the following people went south looking for opportunities after the war?
carpetbaggers
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Which group did Samuel Gompers lead?
American Federation of Labor
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Which union included many socialists as members?
Industrial Workers of the World
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Who wrote an account of her life as a female factory worker?
Harriet Robinson
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Whose theories improved industrial efficiency?
Frederick Taylor
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In 1860, where were most factories were located?
Northeast
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Under the Contract Labor Act manufacturers
deducted money from workers to pay off passage to America.
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Who built the Standard Oil Company?
John D. Rockefeller
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Why were monopolies used?
to gain a competitive advantage
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Who was the cowboy that mapped a trail between San Antonio, Texas and Abilene, Kansas?
Jesse Chisholm
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Who invented light switches?
Thomas Alva Edison
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Whose steelmaking process allowed it to be mass produced.
Henry Bessemer
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What were Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Cornelius Vanderbilt called?
robber barons
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In which of the following fights did American soldiers kill more than 200 Sioux?
Battle of Little Big Horn
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