Ch. 18 & 19 Test

Question 1

ch 18. range wars were usually fought between

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farmers and cattle barons

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some momons engaged in the controversial practice of

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polygamy

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the gomestead act granted 160 acres of public domain to any settler who

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would live ont eh land and improve it for five years

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which one of the following was not a reason for the demise of the huge calttle barons by the late 1880s

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constant danger of indian attack

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the census burea announced that the end of the frontier line happended in this year

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1890

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sand creek was the scene of

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an unprovoked massacre of Cheyenne Indians by white civilian volunteers

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the ghost dance of Paiute prophet Wovoka was a

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belief in a millennial day of judgement favorable to indian peoples

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European immigrants to the great plains tended to

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form tight knit ethnically distinctive communties

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the real winners from the gold and silver booms int eh west were

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mining companies

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the great plains ere often reffered to by early explores as the

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great desert

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the Mormons learned how to survive in their area by relying on farming techniques learned from

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local indian tribes

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the first national park in theus aws

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yellowstone

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the greates threat to the small farmer and the main facror which reduced his numbers was

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foreclosure by the money interests

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these two people were actual westerners who staged and popularized the wild west show

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joseph McCoy and William cody

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as an example of settler pressure theis part of indian territory was abolished and opened to white settlement in 1854

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Kansas and nebraska

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which of the following did not contribute to the ultimate decline of th native maercians

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the Indians refusal to accept christianity

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ch. 19 educator booker to washingon

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felt that practiacal vocational instruction was the key to economice success for af am

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by 1900 the us was __ in the world in terms of productivity

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first

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unlike the amercian federation labor the iknights of labor

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welcomed most workers into its ranks

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the gospel of wealth

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justified the ruthless behavior of entreprenerus like rockefeller

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the new style of spending of the rich characterized by shoeing off wealth was labeled as

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conspicuous consumption

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very few of theimmigrants int he 1880s went to this region of the us

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pacific coast

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the larges labor org in the nineteenth century was

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the knights of labor

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middle class children in the late nineteenth cen

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had more leisure to creatively play

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af am workers in the new south

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were strictly segregated

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more common ground could be fournd between members of the middle and working class with

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ragtime and baseball

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john Rockefeller ___ combination was so successful that he controlled 90% of the nations oil refining by 1880

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horizontal

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the violence in the haymarket square incident was an example of

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hostility to labor union organiznig

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the haymarket square incident in 1886

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weakened labor unions particularyly the knights of labor

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the larages proportion of persons who filled jobs in industry in the second half of the 19 cent migrated from

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Europe and asia

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the nothion of the survival of the fittest is identified most closelywith

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Charles Darwin

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by the beginning of the 1900s

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businesses depending on large scale investment shad oraganized and formed vast corpoartion

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an important manufacturing innovation at the end of the 19 cent was

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continuous production

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between 1865 and 1900 the groth of big business in am was facilitated by

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horizontal integraional and vertical vombination

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to justify their wealth many am business men embraced the ideolofy of

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social darwinisnm

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the am federation of labor

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appealed to skilled workers and concentrated on improving their wages

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in the south

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labor wa often provided by children and convicts

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as the us apporaced the 20 cent

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internal migrants and foreign immigrants increased the urban pop

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one important urban innovation between 1870 and 1900 was the

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development of streetcars and elevated railroasds

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thorstein bevlen described the walthy class's extravagance as

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conspicuous consumption

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one noticeable result of the incorporation of amercias was the

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leisure time and activities available to midd class children

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during the late 19 cent

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opportuinites for obtaining an edu expanded in mayny ways

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the famous educator who emphasized for af am students was

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booker t wahington

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toward the end of the 1800s

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sports particulary baseball became the major form of poplular entertainment

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by the 1890s

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problems in the us caused manuy am to become interested in an overseas empire

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as the us expanded to the west in the last half of the 19 cent

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the wourld society and culture of native am Indians was destryed

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early in the history of theu s

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many earstern tribes had been relocated into areas of the west thought to be beyond white encroachment

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the indian wars

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began with the sand creek massacre and lasted wuntil the capture of Geronimo

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members of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints

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did not retain all of their practices in the west but they still beancme a powerful political force in the region

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the cattle kingodom of the am west

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depended on the presence of unfenced range that provided free feed and open trails for cattle producers

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crucial to opeing the great plains to agriculture was

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significant improvemnts in transopsotaion and in farm techonlofy

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a signigicant change in amer

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the shift away from producing primarily ofr local trade ans toward growing for an international market

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the development of th eam west

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often produced devastating results for the aras natural resources

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late in the 1800s asd early in the 1900s

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the fed gov increased it srole in the economic development of the west

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the future president of the us who symbolized the legendary am west was

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theo roosvelt

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as the nineteenth century came to an end

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gov policy threatedned indian culturebut aritsts and scholars were fascinated by native groups

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the book a Century of dishonor by Helen hunt jackson

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shar;ly cricized theu s gov for failing to honor its treaties with the indian tribes

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the event that epitomized the fate of native amercians occurred in 180 at

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wounded knee

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by the late 1800s

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many westerners had become deepy discounted wwith fed policies and earstern capitalists

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ch. 20 passage of the Pendleton act in 1883 indicates

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both parties recognized a need to professialize government service

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supporters of the new peopldes party founded in 1890called themselves

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populists

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Eugene vs. Debs was a

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a

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the march of Jacob s. coxey's army on washigton was an attempt to force the federal government to respnd to

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the panic of 1893

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the social gospel movement was a

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attempt to apply Christian ideals to social ills

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grover Cleveland's support for the gold standard resulted in

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n

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once in office Mckinley

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supported business and expansionist interests

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jim crow laws were designed to foster

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racial segregation

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in plessy vs. Ferguson and cumming vs. Richmond county board of education, the supreme court up held legislation that

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formally segregated facilities including schools

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the white mans burden was considered to be

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s

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Josiah strong established a particular type of defense of imperialism when he pintedout that commerce follows the

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missionary

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the growth of missionary activity in the 1890s most directly resulted in

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a

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in the platt amendment on cuba the us

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called for the right to intervene to protect its interest in cuba

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the acquisition of the Philippines by the us

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resulted in a four year war of conquest by the americans

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from 1877 to 1893 the postion of president of the us was basically

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a

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secretary of state William h seward negotioated the purchse of this in 1867

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alaska

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the interstate commerce commission was established in 1887 to

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regulate the railroads

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discontented farmers aimed their harshest criticism against

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railroads

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all of the following proposals were included in the peoples party platform except

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womens suffrage

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William Jennings bryans "cross of gold" speech advocated

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the free silver issue

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the new middle class of the gilded age was composed

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almost exclusively of white, Anglo saxon protiestants

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industrial production in the new south

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returned very few profits to southerners

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which one of the following had the least in common with the other four in late nineteenth century America?

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specialty shops

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ch. 21 a major reason why progressive women like jane adams truned to settlement work was?

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dissatisfaction with the choices that society offered to women

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in general progressives were

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optimistic about citizens improving socio economic conditions

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new immigrants from 1900 1914 were most likely to be employed in

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low paid backbreaking work in industry

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social darwinists held the view that racism toward Af Am was acceptable becasue

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they believed af am were predisposed to vice and crime therefore it was permissible to hold racist views

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Theodore Roosevelt gave them the label muckrakers. they were

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writers who exposed details of social and political evils

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which one of the following is not true of settlement houses

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they were progessives but were often anti immigrant

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progressives believed they had a mission to shape and control all of the following except

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angle saxons

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as a result of the triangle shirtwaist company fire the following positive action was taken

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improvement of safety conditions and limiting working hours for women

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the women's Christian termperance unions effort at prohibition and other social reforms allowed women to

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combine public concerns with moral rightousness

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the am federation of labor organized the following

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skilled labor

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not only was it a best seller but upon sicalirs muckracking nowel the junchle helped further passaged of the theses two federal laws

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meat inspection and the pure food and drug acts

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in exchange for votes, machine politicians offered their constituents

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jobs

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you were most likely to be for prohibition if you were a

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middle class protestant

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Wilson was only the second democrat since the civil war to be elected to the presidency in 1912

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the republincas split their majority bewtween supporters of taft and roosevelt

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in Jacob riiss book thw the other hals lives the oher half reffered to the lives of

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urban poor