Test 1129 Flashcards

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The English background has influenced America’s culture, law, and ____.

A

Religion

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The ____ has been called the “melting pot of nations.”

A

United States

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2
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The King James Version of the Bible is an ____ literary masterpiece.

A

English

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During the ____, Europeans came to America to work in the factories but dreamed of obtaining land on which to farm.

A

Old Immigration

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The ____ occurred from the 1880s to World War I.

A

New Immigration

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5
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The only group whoever free we chose to come to America were ____ immigrants.

A

Black

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6
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Cuban immigrants came to the United States in the 1960s to escape ____ dictatorship.

A

Fidel Castro’s

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American ____ likely migrated to the United States across the Bering Street.

A

Indians

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8
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Rabbi ____ came to America searching for the Messiah.

A

Leopold Cohn

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9
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Most Americans were living in ____ areas before the War Between the States.

A

Rural

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Three constant dangers to city dwellers were ____, diseases, and crime.

A

Fires

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Factories with terrible working conditions were called ____.

A

“Sweatshops”

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12
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Factory workers were often ____ and children.

A

Women

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The Knight of Labor supported an eight-hour workday and abolishment of ____, but they opposed strikes.

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Child labor

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After the War Between the States, there was a shift from self-sufficient farming to ____ farming.

A

Commercial

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____ regulated the rates and practices of grain elevators and railroads within the state.

A

Granger Laws

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____ where paper money without paper backing that were printed on green paper and circulated during the War Between the States.

A

Greenbacks

17
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One way to keep money stable is to base it on a ____ standard.

A

Gold

18
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The ____ Act demonetized silver.

A

Coinage

19
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The populist party was in favor of free and unlimited coinage of ____ at a ratio of 16 to 1.

A

Silver

20
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List the party affiliation of each Presidential candidate in the election of 1892.

Democratic-
Populist-
Republican-

A
  • Grover Cleveland
  • James B. Weaver
  • Benjamin Harrison
21
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In 1896 ____ was the Presidential nominee of both the Democratic and Populist political parties.

A

William Jennings Bryan

21
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The Great ____ Fire supposedly started when Mrs. O Leary’s cow kicked over a lantern.

A

Chicago

22
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____ Jews are associated with Germany.

A

Ashkenazic

23
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Wrote “Amazing Grace.”

A

John Newton

24
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Wrote “The New Colossus.”

A

Emma Lazarus

26
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Wrote “It Is Well with My Soul.”

A

H. G. Spafford

27
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Established the American Federation of Labor.

A

Samuel Gompers

29
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Organized the Knights of Labor

A

Uriah Stephens

30
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Was assassinated by Charles Guiteau.

A

James A. Garfield

31
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Constructed of model company town.

A

George Pullman

32
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President McKinley’s assassin was ____.

A

Leon Czolgosz