FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT EXAM 1

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-Guarantee passing score -40 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: 39. Which magazine was the first to take advantage of advertising revenue to build mass readership, with over one million subscribers?

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Ladies home journal Question 2: 8. Farmers on the Great Plains in the late nineteenth century often faced which of the following natural challenges that could easily destroy crops?

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hailstorms Question 3: 29. Which of the following statements describes the experiences of the new immigrants who entered the United States between 1880 and 1920?

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They often planned on working and saving money for a few years before returning home.Question 4: 10. Why were late-nineteenth-century farms on the Great Plains much larger than eastern farms?

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The lockout represented Carnegieâs effort to break the plant's union.

Question 5: 6. Which of the following describes the Homestead Act of 1862?

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provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S.government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land.Question 6: 2. The United States adopted the gold standard in the 1870s for its currency because

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it hoped to encourage European investment in the United States.Question 7: 7. Which of the following statements describes women's experience in the West in the late nineteenth century?

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Single women made up between 5 and 20 percent of homesteaders in North Dakota.Question 8: 23. Gustavus Swift boosted productivity in his Chicago slaughterhouses in the 1860s by using

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assembly lines Question 9: 33. What was the purpose of the Hatch Act, passed by Congress and President Grover Cleveland in 1887?

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To provide federal funding for agricultural research and education

Question 10: 31. State Granger laws were designed primarily to

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regulate big business Question 11: 19. Following the Sioux victory at Little Big Horn, the U.S. government

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pursued the various bands of Sioux until they surrendered.

Question 12: 25. What late-nineteenth-century development made it possible for rural Americans to participate in the national consumer culture?

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catalogs Question 13: 30. Why did Chinese immigrants come to the United States in the nineteenth century?

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They were motivated by poverty and upheaval in southern China.Question 14: 28. Which of the following were skilled workers with a relatively high degree of autonomy in the 1870s?

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machinists Question 15: 11. Which of the following was a reason the U.S. government elected to define small preserves of "uninhabited wilderness" in the 1860s and 1870s?

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To contribute to the conquest of Native Americans in the West Question 16: 21. Why was the strike by steelworkers at Homestead, Pennsylvania, significant?

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The lockout represented Carnegie's effort to break the plant's union.Question 17: 40. The Supreme Court decision to overturn Granger laws in Wabash v. Illinois (1886) led to

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The creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission.Question 18: 9. Which of the following groups called themselves the Exodusters in 1879?

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blacks who immigrated to kansas

Question 19: 15. John Wesley Powell, in his Report on the Lands of the Arid Regions of the United States (1878), famously stated that

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massive cooperation under government control was the only way farming would succeed on the Great Plains.Question 20: 3. Who benefited most from the General Mining Act of 1872, which allowed individuals who discovered minerals on federally owned land to work the claim and keep the proceeds?

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Powerful investors Question 21: 16. Which president refashioned U.S. Indian policy in the latter half of the nineteenth century?

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grant Question 22: 17. Reformers believed that the best way to save the Indians was through

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education Question 23: 38. What did the Railroad Strike of 1877 and the Homestead Strike of 1892 have in common?

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Government troops helped put down both strikes Question 24: 13. During and after the Civil War, the Republican Congress implemented its economic vision for the United States by

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subsidizing the transcontinental railroad.