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The homestead strike at the carnegie factory affect what vital industry in 1892

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None of the above: oil, railroads, cola, banking

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2
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WHo was not a believe in socialism

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Gompers

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Who said “show me a country where there are no strikes and I’ll show you a country where there is no liberty:

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Gompers

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4
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The Indian chief who led the Lakota Sioux against Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn was

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Sitting Bull

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5
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The Massacre at Wounded Knee resulted in the death of

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More than 200 unarmed Sioux

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6
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At the Chivington Massacre of 1864

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US Army troops led by Colonel John Chivington murdered 450 Cheyenne Indians

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Geronimo was famous for his resistance to forced reservation life. Captured by American military troops, he said, “Once I moved like the wind. Now I surrender to you, and that is all.” The next day he escaped from military custody. To what tribe did he belong?

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Apache

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8
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Helen Hunt Jackson

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Helped begin a national Indian rights movement with her book A Century of Dishonor (1881)

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9
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In 1866, the ___________ launched a surprise attack that wiped out 80 U.S. soldiers and came to be known as the Fetterman massacre

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Sioux

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The final armed encounter between the American army and Indians occured in 1890 at

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Wounded Knee

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11
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The Comstock Lode was

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The largest silver mine in America

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12
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Which was NOT a boomtown?

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Denver, Colorado

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13
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Who was NOT at the Battle of Little BigHorn?

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Geronimo

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14
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Which of these is NOT a Southwestern (warm) tribe?

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Pawnee

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15
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Which tribe was slaughtered at the Massacre at Wounded Knee?

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Sioux

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16
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What tribe was portrayed as the bad guys in our film?

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Pawnee

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17
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Who was NOT in the new wave of immigrants?

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Germans

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18
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The ____ formed in 1887 and vowed to protect white America

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American Protective Association

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19
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The 1882 Immigration Law banned

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Paupers, criminals, convicts

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20
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The 1882 chinese exclusion act banned all immigration from China until

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1943

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21
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His book “progress and poverty” influenced ideas about poverty and taxation and sold over 3 million copies

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henry george

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22
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Civil war general lewis wallace wrote a book called _____ it was the uncle tom’s cabin of the anti darwinists movement because it supported the scriptures

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ben hur

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23
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In 1892 the populists were defeated in the presidential election by

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cleveland

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24
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An imperialist foreign policy was supported in the late 19th century bu all the following EXCEPT

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William J. Bryan

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25
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America seems to have entered the Sp.-Am. War largely

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To aid the Cuban independence movement and to bring stability to the island

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26
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Which of the following is the least related to the other four? (geographically)
The Maine
Commodore Dewey
Kettle Hill
Santiago Harbor
Guantanamo Bay

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Dewey

27
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The great naval theorist who wrote that America needed a strong navy, the Spanish commander whose mistreatment of Cubans fueled revolution, and the engineer who oversaw the completion of the panama canal were, respectively,

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Mahan, Valeriano Weyler, Ferdinand de Lesseps

28
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The Platt Amendment, drafted after the Spanish-Am. War,

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Gave the US authority to intervene in Cuban affairs, as well as land privileges which led to an Am. naval base at Guantanamo Bay

29
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America was spurred to issue the Roosevelt corollary to the Monroe Doctrine by Britain’s aggression towards

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Venezuela

30
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The US began to flex its muscles enforcing TR’s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine when it sent troops into _____ in 1905.

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Dominican Republic

31
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An important political aim of the Progressive movement was to?

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Stimulate democratic jobs for the unemployed

32
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Which of these progressive political reforms would allow citizens to directly propose legislation?

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The initiative

33
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Which of these progressive political reforms would allow citizens to directly vote on legislation?

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Referendum

34
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The Hepburn Act strengthened the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission by

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Giving it the power to set maximum rates that railroads could charge

35
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The classic trustbusting decision of TR’s administration was Northern Securities (1904), in which the Court held that

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A railroad merger in the Northwest was monopolistic in nature & thus violated the Sherman A-T Act

36
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Gifford Pinchot, appointed by TR and fired by Taft was head of the

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Forestry Service

37
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To show he was a conservationist, Taft created the _______________

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Bureau of Mines

38
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The Jones Act of 1916

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Gave the filipinos territorial status

39
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Which of these countries did the US not send troops to or acquire in the WIlson administration

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Columbia

40
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The Triple Alliance was composed of which three nations for most of the war?

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Germany, ottoman empire, and A-H

41
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The Triple ENtente was composed of which 3?

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France, GB, and Russia

42
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In March of 1917, 2 events happened which finally convinced Wilson to involve the US in WWI. One was the 1st Russian Revolution; the other was

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The sinking of US merchant ships

43
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The Sussex Pledge was a

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Promise by Germany to end surprise submarine attacks on merchant ships

44
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The treaty of Brest- Litovsk

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Ended fighting between Germany and Russia during WWI

45
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During WWI, the Committee on Public Information

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Promoted public support for the war

46
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During WW1, John J. Pershing

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Commanded the American Expeditionary Forces

47
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At the Battle of Belleau Wood, American marines saved

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Paris

48
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During WW1, Herbert Hoover

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Was in charge of the Food Administration

49
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What WW1 battle, first proved Americans could fight?

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Cantigny

50
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Alvin York

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Was an American WW1 hero who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his single-handed attack on a German machine gun nest

51
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In the Balfour Declaration, Great Britain

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Promised support for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine

52
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He was the overall leading Ace of WW1

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Von Richtofen

53
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Georges Clemenceau

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Represented France at the Versailles Peace Conference

54
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Henry Cabot Lodge

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Represented Great Britain at Versailles

55
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  1. In the Schenck Decision, the Supreme Court:
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E. said constitutional rights are not absolute

56
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  1. The Saint Valentines Day Massacre (February 1929) occured during what administration?
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Coolidge

57
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In 1932 Hoover did try to stimulate the economy through the

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C. RFC

58
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The Bonus Army was routed from Washington DC by the army led by General

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C. MacArthur

59
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The League of Nations was first shown to be powerless in

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A. Manchuria

60
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Hoover’s good Neighbor Policy was most like that of

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B. Taft

61
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The novel most associated with the flight of Dust Bowl farmers fleeing to California is

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The Grapes of Wrath

62
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Her photographs of Dust Bowl victims alerted the nation to their plight

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Dorothea Lange

63
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Two members of the US Olympic track team were not allowed to compete in the 1936 games because they were

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Jewish

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