Test 1129 Flashcards
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The English background has influenced America’s culture, law, and ____.
Religion
The ____ has been called the “melting pot of nations.”
United States
The King James Version of the Bible is an ____ literary masterpiece.
English
During the ____, Europeans came to America to work in the factories but dreamed of obtaining land on which to farm.
Old Immigration
The ____ occurred from the 1880s to World War I.
New Immigration
The only group whoever free we chose to come to America were ____ immigrants.
Black
Cuban immigrants came to the United States in the 1960s to escape ____ dictatorship.
Fidel Castro’s
American ____ likely migrated to the United States across the Bering Street.
Indians
Rabbi ____ came to America searching for the Messiah.
Leopold Cohn
Most Americans were living in ____ areas before the War Between the States.
Rural
Three constant dangers to city dwellers were ____, diseases, and crime.
Fires
Factories with terrible working conditions were called ____.
“Sweatshops”
Factory workers were often ____ and children.
Women
The Knight of Labor supported an eight-hour workday and abolishment of ____, but they opposed strikes.
Child labor
After the War Between the States, there was a shift from self-sufficient farming to ____ farming.
Commercial
____ regulated the rates and practices of grain elevators and railroads within the state.
Granger Laws
____ where paper money without paper backing that were printed on green paper and circulated during the War Between the States.
Greenbacks
One way to keep money stable is to base it on a ____ standard.
Gold
The ____ Act demonetized silver.
Coinage
The populist party was in favor of free and unlimited coinage of ____ at a ratio of 16 to 1.
Silver
List the party affiliation of each Presidential candidate in the election of 1892.
Democratic-
Populist-
Republican-
- Grover Cleveland
- James B. Weaver
- Benjamin Harrison
In 1896 ____ was the Presidential nominee of both the Democratic and Populist political parties.
William Jennings Bryan
The Great ____ Fire supposedly started when Mrs. O Leary’s cow kicked over a lantern.
Chicago
____ Jews are associated with Germany.
Ashkenazic
