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How did J. P. Morgan eliminate his banking competition?

By establishing interlocking directorates

After 1875, most natural scientists did which of the following?

Came around to espouse organic evolution after having initially opposed it.

Which was a result of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882? AP

Chinese immigration was prohibited in the United States until 1943.

Which one of the following factors played the largest role in increasing the settlement of the Great Plains?

Construction of railroads.

The assassination of President James Garfield by a disappointed office seeker did which of the following?

Created the impetus to establish the first civil service system for federal employees

Which of the following was LEAST involved in the struggle for women's rights?

Dorothea Dix

What did the "normal schools" that grew dramatically in the late nineteenth century specialize in?

Educating teachers

African Americans who fled the violence of the Reconstruction South in 1879 and 1880 to start anew in Kansas were known as

Exodusters

Why was the Democrats' nomination of Horace Greeley as their presidential candidate in 1872 politically disastrous?

Greeley had spent many years denouncing Democrats as morally deficient slave traders and traitors.

Which of the following is one important continuity in urban life in the United States throughout the nineteenth century?

Immigrants formed an important part of the manufacturing workforce.

Why is the closing of the frontier dated to 1890?

In that year, the census bureau declared that there was no longer a discernible line of advancing pioneer settlement.

What did a vertical integration like the Carnegie Steel Corporation accomplish?

It established monopolistic control of every phase of business, from raw material to final consumer.

Which of the following is true of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890?

It had little immediate impact on the regulation of large corporations.

What best describes the primary base of the Democratic Party?

It included wealthy easterners, poorer midwesterners, and debt-burdened agrarians.

What organization was founded by Nathan Bedford Forrest?

Ku Klux Klan

Which of the following statements was not true of the 1862 Homestead Act?

Land speculators were effectively kept from abusing the act.

The union membership card pictured above is designed to accomplish which of the following?

Link union membership with patriotic and religious images

Who primarily ran settlement houses?

Middle-class, native-born women

(image of graph) Which of the following was a response to both immigration in the 1850s and the immigration depicted in the graph?

Nativists advocated against the continued arrival of immigrants.

What was the significance of the Supreme Court's ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson?

Segregation laws were upheld as constitutional.

Americans advocating the ideas expressed in the passage above would be most accurately described as

Social Darwinists

The decisions of the Supreme Court in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries generally did which of the following?

Strengthened the position of big business.

The late nineteenth century ushered in an era of social crusades and reform, including the effort to prohibit alcohol and promote temperance. All of the following phrases describe the goals of this movement except:

Target unwanted immigrant groups

All of the following were true of daily newspapers in the late nineteenth century except:

The day of slashing journalistic giants like Horace Greeley was returning.

What was one of the most difficult adjustments many formerly rural workers had to make to the industrial system?

The strict discipline and regimentation of time

Which best describes the relationship between the Democrats and the Republicans during the Gilded Age?

They had few significant policy differences.

Who of the following was known as the most versatile inventor of the Gilded Age?

Thomas Edison

Booker T. Washington institution

Tuskegee Institute

Booker T. Washington social and political equality

Washington argued that African Americans must concentrate on educating themselves, learning useful trades, and investing in their own businesses

Which group was most dramatically altered by the new industrial age?

Women

From the 1880's to the beginning of the New Deal, the dominant American Indian policy of the United Stated government sought to

break up tribal landholdings

(protectors of our industries image) The image was created most directly in response to the

consolidation of corporations into trusts and holding companies

In the last half of the nineteenth century, the New South advocates supported

expansion of southern industry

W. E. B. Du Bois political ideology

fought for civil rights (NAACP), socialism

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the formation of labor unions was often a response to

low wages and dangerous conditions in industrial work

(image of boss tweed) The cartoon above is a commentary on late-nineteenth-century

municipal corruption

In the three decades following the Civil War, the policies of the Republican Party generally favored

northern industrial interests

The Interstate Commerce Act achieved

set up the Interstate Commerce Commission, required railroads to publish their rates openly, outlawed charging more for a short haul than for a long one, prohibited rebates and pools

The Compromise of 1877 resulted in

the return to Democratic-dominated electoral politics in the South, president Hayes agreed to withdraw federal troops from former Confederate states, the resolution of the 1876 election, the official end of Reconstruction

At the end of the nineteenth century, the desire of American business to control supplies of raw materials led to

vertical integration