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Carry Nation, a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Movement (WCTM), is best know for attacking what establishments with a hatchet?
A. immigration offices
B. saloons
C. factories
D. settlement houses
A

B. saloons

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Who shot James A. Garfield?
A.John Wilkes Booth
B. Oliver H. Kelley
C. James Blaine
D. Charles Guiteau
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D. Charles Guiteau

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What presidential candidate was the chant, "Ma, ma, where's my pa? Gone to the White House ha, ha, ha" referring to? 
A. James G. Blaine
B. Chester Arthur
C. Grover Cleveland
D. Rutherford B. Hayes
A

C. Grover Cleveland

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What American author coined the term 'the Gilded Age'?
A. Mark Twain
B. Frank Baum
C. Walt Whitman
D. Robert Frost
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A. Mark Twain

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What institute was Booker T. Washington the founder of?
A. Tuskegee
B. Fisk
C. Harvard
D. Brown
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A. Tuskegee

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Who founded the Granger Movement?
A. Rutherford B. Hayes
B. Mary Elizabeth Leaser
C. Grover Cleveland
D. Oliver H. Kelley
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D. Oliver H. Kelley

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Grover Cleveland was a:
A. Democrat
B. Chester Molester
C. Governor of New York
D. All of the above
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D. All of the above

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Which president from US I introduced the spoils system?
A. Andrew Johnson
B. Abraham Lincoln
C. Andrew Jackson
D. George Washington
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C. Andrew Jackson

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Which president had a grandfather that was also a president?
A. Franklin D. Roosevelt
B. Benjamin Harrison
C. Chester Arthur
D. William McKinley
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B. Benjamin Harrison

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W. E. B. Du Bois was a fierce advocate for what?
A. suffrage
B. unions
C. black education
D. Booker T. Washington
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C. black education

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