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100
Lincoln wanted ex-Confederate states admitted to the Union when ________ of a state’s white voters took a loyalty oath.
What is "10%"?
100
Beginning in 1865, more than 12,000 Chinese found work building the ________.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
100
Andrew Carnegie elaborated his philosophy in a 1901 book titled ________.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
100
The census of 1920 revealed that for the first time in American history, a majority of Americans lived in ________ areas.
What are Urban areas?
100
These buildings, named after their shape, often housed 4,000 people (usually poor, illiterate immigrants) in one city block.
What are Dumbbell Tenements?
200
This Amendment to the United States Constitution offered the first national definition of citizenship.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution?
200
The most widespread Indian groups in the West were the ________.
What are the Plains Indians?
200
The first major national labor conflict was the ________ of 1877.
What is the great railroad strike?
200
The most famously corrupt city boss, who presided over New York City’s ________, was William M. Tweed.
What is Tammany Hall?
200
In 1882, Congress responded to racist pressure by passing the ________ ________ Act.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
300
State laws designed to restore slavery in all but name in the post-Civil War South were called the ________.
What are the Black Codes?
300
This act sought to assimilate Native Americans into the larger white culture.
What is Dawes Severalty Act of 1887.
300
The taking over of all the different businesses on which a company relies to produce its primary product is called ________.
What is vertical integration?
300
The most powerful newspaper chain in the country was owned by ________.
Who is William Randolph Hearst?
300
In 1896 the Supreme Court declared that “separate but equal” in matters of race relations was constitutional, in the case of ________.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
400
After the Civil War, most black agricultural workers toiled as tenants of white landowners and were known as ________.
What are Sharecroppers?
400
The 1890 massacre of cold and starving Sioux at ________ signaled the end of the western wars against the Native American.
What is Wounded Knee?
400
The 1894 strike against the Pullman Company was led in part by ________, the head of the American Railway Union.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
400
Danish immigrant Jacob Riis is most noted for his book on slum conditions entitled ________.
What is "How the Other Half Lives"?
400
The combining of a number of firms engaged in the same enterprise into a single corporation is called ________.
What is horizontal integration?
500
Ida B. Wells was a black journalist who was most concerned about stopping the practice of ________ in the late nineteenth-century South.
What is lynching?
500
Buffalo Bill Cody headed the most popular ________ shows in the late nineteenth century.
What is the Wild West?
500
The most famous writer of the success story in the late nineteenth century was ________.
Who is Horacio Alger?
500
The most profound intellectual development of the late nineteenth century was the widespread acceptance of the theory of ________.
What is the theory of evolution?
500
The central figure adopting the new corporate form of organization in the steel industry was ________.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
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