FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH

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FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH

UNIT 6. EXAM QUESTIONS

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-Guarantee passing score -272 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: Southwestern Indian tribe led by Geronimo that carried out some of the last fighting against white conquest

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Apaches Question 2: Ohio industrialist and organizer of McKinley's victory over Bryan in the election of 1896

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Mark Hanna Question 3: Aggressive eastern railroad builder and consolidator who scorned the law as an obstacle to his enterprise

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Cornelius Vanderbilt Question 4: Pro-black general who led an agency that tried to assist the freedmen

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Oliver O. Howard

Question 5: In contrast to the Knights of Labor, the American Federation of Labor advocated...

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Concentrating on improving wages and hours and avoiding general social reform Question 6: First of the great industrial trusts, organized through a principle of "horizontal integration" that ruthlessly incorporated or destroyed competitors

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Standard Oil Company Question 7: In contrast to radical Republicans, moderate Republicans generally...

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Favored states' rights and opposed direct federal involvement in individuals' lives Question 8: Former "Indian territory" where "sooners" tried to get the jump on "boomers" when it was opened for settlement in 1889

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Oklahoma Question 9: The harsh Southern state laws of 1865 that limited black rights and imposed restrictions to ensure a stable black labor supply

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Black Codes Question 10: Cause: Favor-seeking businesspeople and corrupt politicians

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Effect: Caused numerous scandals during President Grant's administration

Question 11: Cause: New industrial jobs and urban excitement

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Lured millions of rural Americans off the farms and into the cities Question 12: Secretary of state who arranged an initially unpopular but valuable land deal in 1867

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William Seward

Question 13: Cause: The rise of the Populist Party in the early 1890s

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Threatened the two-party domination of American politics by the Democrats and Republicans Question 14: General term for the herding of cattle from the grassy plains to the railroad terminals of Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming

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Long drive Question 15: Derogatory term for white Southerners who cooperated with the Republican Reconstruction governments

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Scalawags Question 16: American social reformers like Henry George and Edward Bellamy advocated...

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Utopian reforms to end poverty and eliminate class conflict Question 17: Grant's greatest failing in the scandals that plagued his administration was...

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His toleration of corruption and loyalty to crooked friends Question 18: Harvard scholar who made original contributions to modern psychology and philosophy

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William James Question 19: Intertribal warfare among Plains Indians increased in the late 19th century because of...

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Growing competition for the rapidly dwindling hunting grounds Question 20: The Supreme Court's ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson upholding "separate but equal" public facilities in effect legalized...

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The system of unequal segregation between the races

Question 21: "Seward's Folly," acquired in 1867 from Russia

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Alaska Question 22: Cause: The coming of big-business mining and stock-raising to the West

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Ended the romantic, colorful era of the miners' and cattlemen's frontier Question 23: Eloquent Kansas Populist who urged farmers to "raise less corn and more hell"

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Mary

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Question 24: The warfare that led up to the Battle of Little Big Horn was set off by...

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White intrusions after the discovery of gold in the sacred Black Hills Question 25: Cause: The ruthless competitive techniques of Rockefeller and other industrialists

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Eliminated competition and created monopolistic "trusts" in many industries Question 26: Eloquent young Congressman from Nebraska who became the most prominent advocate of "free silver" in the early 1890s

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William Jennings Bryan Question 27: The railroad most significantly stimulated American industrialization by...

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Creating a single national market for raw materials and consumer goods Question 28: Public-spirited railroad builder who assisted farmers in the northern areas served by his rail lines

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James J. Hill