Government
Business
Westward Expansion
Minorities
Miscellaneous
100
The Pendleton Act required people applying for many federal government jobs to do what?
take a competitive examination.
100
Women were drawn into industry by what inventions?
inventions like the typewriter and telephone switchboard.
100
Why did Indians battle Whites?
punish whites for breaking treaties, defend their lands against white invaders, preserve their nomadic way of life against forced settlement.
100
Black leader, Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois did what for African Americans?
demanded complete equality for African Americans.
100
What was the first major farmers' organization?
Farmers' Alliance.
200
In an attempt to avoid prosecution for their corrupt dealings, the owners of the Crédit Mobilier did what?
bribed key congressmen by giving them shares of the company's valuable stock.
200
What did the Sherman Anti-Trust Act prohibit?
private corporations or organizations from engaging in "combinations in restraint of trade."
200
What were problems of the Homestead Act?
ten times more of the public land ended up in the hands of land speculators than farmers, the standard 160 acres provided to farmers proved to be inadequate on the rain-scarce Great Plains.
200
As a leader of the African American community, Booker T. Washington argued for what?
he promoted black economic self-help and development of skills in agriculture and the industrial trades, but did not challenge segregation directly.
200
The steel industry owed much to the inventive genius of who?
Henry Bessemer
300
What happened as a result of the Compromise of 1877?
the withdrawal of federal troops and abandonment of federal protection of black civil and voting rights in the South.
300
John D. Rockefeller's organizational technique of horizontal integration involved what?
forcing small competitors to assign stock to Standard Oil, then consolidating and integrating the operations of the previously competing enterprises, or face the prospect of losing their business.
300
What did the Dawes Act do to assimilate Native Americans?
wipe out tribal ownership of land, promise Indians U.S. citizenship in twenty-five years, expand recognized tribes' collective land ownership holdings.
300
What was the main reason(s) that the Chinese came to the United States from the 1850s until 1882?
dig for gold and sledgehammer the tracks for the transcontinental railroad in the West.
300
How did the Darwinian theory of organic evolution through natural selection affect American religion?
creating a split between religious conservatives who denied evolution and accomodationists who supported it.
400
What did Grover Cleveland propose to address the problem of the large federal budget surplus?
lowering the tariff.
400
What was Andrew Carnegie's system of Vertical Integration?
combined all facets of an industry, from raw material to final product, within a single company.
400
Who were Buffalo Soldiers?
African American cavalry and soldiers who served in the frontier wars.
400
Why were New Immigrant groups regarded with special hostility by many nativist Americans?
their religions were distinctly different and some New Immigrants were politically radical.
400
When did the United States change to standard time zones?
the major rail lines decreed common fixed times so that they could keep schedules and avoid wrecks.
500
What often happened to Blacks who violated the Jim Crow laws or other elements of the South's racial code?
lynched by Southern whites.
500
The Pullman strike created the first instance of what government action?
government use of a federal court injunction to break a strike.
500
The United States government's outlawing of the Indian Sun (Ghost) Dance in 1890 resulted in what event?
Battle of Wounded Knee.
500
Besides serving immigrants and the poor in urban neighborhoods, settlement workers like Jane Addams and Florence Kelley took what other actions?
actively lobbied for social reforms like anti-sweatshop laws and child labor laws.
500
With the Pendleton Act prohibiting political contributions from many federal workers, politicians increasingly sought money from who?
big corporations.
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