Period 6 (6.4 - 6.6) Practice #1

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In the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that

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“separate but equal” facilities were legally permissible.

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At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African Americans using all the following EXCEPT: A) literacy requirements. B) poll taxes. C) grandfather clauses. D) the use of federal troops

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the use of federal troops

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As a leader of the African American community, Booker T. Washington…

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promoted black self-help but did not challenge segregation.

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That a “talented tenth” should lead the race to full social and political equality with whites was the view of ...?

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W.E.B. DuBois

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The first great industrial trusts, the ____________ was organized through a principle of “horizontal integration” that ruthlessly incorporated or destroyed competitors.

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Standard Oil Company

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All the following are true of the developments of the Gilded Age EXCEPT:
patents and corporations allowed businesses to expand by offering legal protections to business owners,
the invention of Thomas Edison replaced gas lights and kerosene lamps,
the invention of Alexander Graham Bell made it possible to communicate without knowledge of mores code,
the government attempted to regulate monopolies to facilitate economic growth

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the government attempted to regulate monopolies to facilitate economic growth

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The major factor in drawing country people off the farms and into the big cities was: the development of the skyscraper, the availability of industrial jobs, the compact nature of those large communities, the advent of new housing structures known as dumbbell tenements.

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the availability of industrial jobs.

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Name the businessman who bought out Andrew Carnegie and organized the United States Steel Corporation.

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JP Morgan

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Based on your knowledge of the Industrial Revolution in the United States, what statement is this cartoon making?

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The owner of Standard Oil has too much power and influence over the federal government.

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William Graham Sumner, a researcher during the Gilded Age, believed that government programs to help the poor were useless because people had a certain place that could not be changed. This philosophy was called...

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Social Darwinism