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1
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Who was president after lincoln

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Andrew Johnson

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What party was Andrew Johnson

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A Unionist Democrat

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3
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What did Johnson refuse to sign

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The 14th amendment

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4
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Who was the “common man”

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Andrew Johnson

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5
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What mixed signals did Johnson give?

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Said he was against southern planters, but allied with ex-confederate leaders and pardoned them

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Who is this in reference to: “You have become a benefactor of the Southern people”

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Andrew Johnson

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7
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What did congress do in December 1865

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Blocked Johnson’s program

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8
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How many impeachments were brought against Johnson?

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11

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How many votes short was Johnson from being convicted

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1

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What were the name for laws that forced former slaves back to plantation labor

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Black codes

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11
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What did the black codes reflect in plantation owners’

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Their economic intrests

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12
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How did the black codes work?

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Imposed severe penalties on blacks who did not hold full year labor contacts

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13
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What did the black codes do to black children?

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Procedurized the taking of black children from their parents and apprenticing them to their former slave masters

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14
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Why was the freedmen’s bureau created?

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to combat racial violence in the South

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What did the Freedmen’s bureau do?

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give aid to displace blacks and other war refugees

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To what did the issue of resettlement of black fall to?

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The freedmen’s bureau

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17
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What did the Civil Rights Act of 1866 do?

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declared formerly enslaved people as citizens with equal protection and rights of contract, and full access to the courts.

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What did the Civil Rights Act of 1875 do?

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Gave full and equal access to hurt service and to transportation and public accommodations, irrespective of race

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19
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What effect did Johnson’s impeachment have?

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His power was discredited

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20
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What did the 15 amendments do?

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Protect a citizen’s right to vote

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What writing foes this quote refer to “The colored people of these Southern states have cast their lot with the government”

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The 15th amendment

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22
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What organization did Susan B. Anthony lead?

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The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA).

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23
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What did the NWSA exclusively fight for?

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For women’s right and a federal suffrage amendment

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24
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What was the First state to give women the right to vote?

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Wyoming

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25
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What did many believe would happen to homes in Wyoming?

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appear to neglect their homes and abandon their homes

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26
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Where did many hope to secure voting rights for women and African American men at the same time

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Seneca Falls Convention of 1848

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27
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Who founded the NWSA with Susan Anthony?

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Elizabeth Stanton

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28
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Who lashed out that educated white women were banned from the polls?

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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29
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Who declared their support for “free love”

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Victoria Woodhull

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30
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Who was the nations first female stock broker

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Victoria Woodhull

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31
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Who triggered the Beecher-Tilton scandal

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Woodhull

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32
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T/F: Woodhull was widely apretiated by many feminist groups?

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False

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33
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Which system detailed where freedmen worked as renters, exchanging theyr labor for the use of land, house, implements and sometimes seed fertilizer

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sharecropping

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34
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T/F: Sharecropping was an effective strategy

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True

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35
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Why did sharecropping rise?

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Cotton

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36
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T/F: Sharecropping only existed in America?

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False

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37
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T/F: Sharecropping was a very bad choice for freedmen?

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False

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38
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What did sharecropping prove about Southern economy?

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South’s dependence on cotton

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39
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What economic state where most sharecroppers starting and ending in?

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Debt

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40
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What movement funded schools

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Freedmen’s aid movement

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41
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Who were the most eager to attend school?

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African Americans

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42
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what was the system where companies could hire out prisoners?

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Convict leasing

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43
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What system of labor was used for convict leasing

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Gang labor

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44
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Where renting convicts cheap?

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Yes

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45
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T/F: Republicans were against convict leasing

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False

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46
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What were ministers in black churches also?

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Political Spokesmen

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47
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What, other than religion, did black churches serve as

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schools, social centers, and meeting halls

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48
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What caused the depression of 1873

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US and Germany going off of the silver based economies

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49
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What federal committee lost its support due to the depression of 1873

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The freedman’s bureau

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What reconstruction bank failed due to the depression of 1873

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The freedmen’s savings and trust company

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51
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Who was the founder of the KKK?

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Nathan Forest

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52
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Who were the first victims of the KKK?

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Republican representatives in Tennessee

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53
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Who was the Liberal Republican candidate in the 1872 election?

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Horace Greely

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54
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What was interesting about Greeley’s nomination

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He was nominated by two parties, the liberal republicans and the democrats

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55
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Why did Grant lose support in his second term?

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Surrounded by scandals

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56
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What was the Credit Mobilier scandal?

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a sham corporation set up by the shareholders in the Union Pacific Railroad, to secure government grants at an enormous profit

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57
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In what case did the supreme court first undercut the power of the 14th amendment?

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Slaughter House Cases

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58
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Who did the Supreme Court leave the voting rights of African Americans to?

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The states

59
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Who was the republican nominee in the election of 1876

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Rutherford B. Hayes

60
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Who was the democratic nominee in the 1876 election?

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Samuel J. Tilden

61
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Who decided the results of the 1876 election

A

Electoral commission

62
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How many sets of votes from different states where there

A

2

63
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What was Hayes’ deal with the electoral commission

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He would stop southern reconstruction efforts if he was elected president

64
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What marked the official end of reconstruction and when was it?

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Hayes ordered union soldiers to leave the south/1877

65
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What “revolution” created the internal structure adopted by many large and complex corporations

A

management revolution

66
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Who were the “middle class bureaucrats”

A

Managers

67
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What process sought to reduce costs through a program of industrial efficiency

A

Scientific Management

68
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T/F: Scientific Management was a great success

A

False

69
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Who invented scientific management?

A

Frederick W. Taylor

70
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What system hired professionals to develop plans for floor workers to maximize efficiency

A

Scientific management

71
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What city was the capital of oil production

A

Cleveland

72
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What technique would lower prices to drive out competition, then raise those prices

A

Predatory prices

73
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Who pioneered predatory pricing?

A

Gustavus Swift

74
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What did predatory pricing do to large corporations?

A

give few firms unprecedented market control

75
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Who pioneered vertical intergration?

A

Gustavus Swift

76
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what model allowed for a company to control all aspects of production

A

vertical integration

77
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Who pioneered horizontal integration?

A

Rockefeller

78
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What process detailed the merging of companies to conglomerates

A

Horizontal Integration

79
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Who created the trust?

A

Rockefellers lawyers

80
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What was a trust?

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A group of associates to hold stock from a group of combined firms, managing them from a combined entity

81
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What caused the denouncement of trusts

A

Distressed people fearing monopolies

82
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Who wrote the gospel of wealth

A

Andrew Carnegie

83
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What business was Carnegie in?

A

Steel

84
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Who “exemplified American success”

A

Andrew Carnegie

85
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What did Carnegie invest in

A

Schools and librarys

86
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T/F: Carnegie believed in charity

A

False

87
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What did carnegie deem to expensive?

A

collective bargaining

88
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What industry was swift in?

A

Meat packing

89
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What factory method did Swift invent?

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The assembly line

90
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What 3 things did swift pioneer?

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Assembly line, vertical integration, predatory pricing

91
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What industry was Rockefeller in?

A

Oil

92
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What strategy of Swift’s did Rockefeller adopt?

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Vertical Integration

93
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Who did Rockefeller ally with?

A

Railroad executives

94
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Who created the first billion dollar company?

A

JP Morgan

95
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What was the first billion dollar company?

A

US Steel

96
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Who pioneered the department store

A

John Wanamaker

97
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Who invented scientific management

A

Frederick W. Taylor

98
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What did Taylor think would appeal worker’s to scientific management

A

Lure of higher earnings

99
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Who built mail-order companies

A

Sears

100
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Where was mail-order companies most popular

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West Coast

101
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Who, nicknamed “the commodore: was an American businessman who built his wealth in railroads and shipping

A

Cornelius Vanderbilt

102
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Who was a midwestern meatpacking entrepreneur

A

Philip D. Armour

103
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Who invented the telephone

A

Graham Bell

104
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Who invented the car assembly line

A

Henry Ford

105
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What did Henry Ford reinvent

A

mass production

106
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What famous inventor worked in an independent laboratory rather than working for a corporation

A

Thomas Edison

107
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Who manufactured rail cars out of Chicago

A

Pullman

108
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Who led the AFL

A

Samuel Gompers

109
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How long did Gompers lead the AFL

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40 years

110
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Who was a free silver advocate

A

William Jennings Bruan

111
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What is social darwinism

A

Survial of the fittest

112
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Who supported social darwinism?

A

Carnegie

113
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Would Darwinism support social darwinism?

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No, his theory was evolutionary, not social

114
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What was fear of the Sears catalog

A

Quality

115
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Which companies primarily resisted need for regulation

A

railroad and mining

116
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How many immigrants came to the US during reconstruction

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2 million

117
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What jobs did many immigrants take?

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wage working

118
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What law bared Chinese laborers for entering the US

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Chinese Exclusion act

119
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When was the Chinese Exclusion Act repealed?

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1943, when Chinese soldiers were fighting together against Japan in WWII

120
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How many police officers died in the Haymarket Riot?

A

7

121
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Who lost support after the Haymarket Riot?

A

Knights of Labor

122
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What two groups rose after the fall of the Knights of Labor after the Haymarket Riot

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Farmer’s Alliance and the American Federation of Labor (AFL).

123
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What strike brought rail travel and commerce to a halt.

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Railroad Strike of 1873

124
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What 2 things were protested in the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

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Growing power of railroad corporations and steep wage cuts

125
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What were grange halls used for

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Recreation and conversation

126
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What platforms did Grange halls advocate for

A

Anticorporate

127
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What did grange halls set up their own of?

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Banks and insurance companies

128
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What group advocated for personal responsibility and self discipline

A

Knight s of labor

129
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Who led the knights of labor?

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Terence Powderly

130
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What strike grew the Knight’s ,e,bership

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Strike at Southwest Railroad

131
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Where was the farmer’s alliance most popular

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The South

132
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When and where was the Farmer’s Alliance created

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Texas and during the 1870s depression

133
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What did the farmer’s alliance call for

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Government aid to farmers and stricter regulation of railroads?

134
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Who led the American Federation of Labor

A

Samuel Gompers

135
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What did trade unionists create?

A

The AFL

136
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What was the aim of the AFL

A

direct collective bargaining with employers

137
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T/F: The AFL was not more welcoming to blacks and women in comparison to the Knights of Labor

A

True

138
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What president passed the Hatch Act?

A

Grover Cleveland

139
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What did the hatch act allow its governments to do

A

Regulate Railroads

140
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What did the Hatch Act Create?

A

The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)

141
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What was the duty of the ICC

A

investigating interstate shipping, forcing railroads to make their rates public, and suing in court when necessary

142
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Who are muckbreakers

A

Journalists who expose corruption

143
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what are antitrust laws

A

Encourage competition by limiting market power of any particular firm

144
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What did antitrust laws do to U.S. Steel

A

Force it to break down into smaller companies

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