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Question 1 What railroad pushed west from Omaha, Nebraska? Union Pacific
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Question 2 Investors with what company charged Union Pacific inflated bills from a construction company that they controlled? Credit Mobilier
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Question 3 What type of company had small operating costs compared to their fixed costs and kept running during poor economic times? Big corporations
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Question 4 Why was the country divided into standardized time zones? To make rail service more reliable
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Question 5 The two railroads that built the transcontinental railroad were Union Pacific & Central Pacific
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Question 6 What is a Monopoly? a single company achieves control of an entire market
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Question 7 What brought together a huge array of different products? Department stores
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Question 8 What is a lockout? technique used for breaking a union in which the company refused to allow workers onto their property
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Question 9 What was used to relieve congestion on city streets? Subway systems
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Question 10 By the 1890s, more than half of all immigrants in the U.S. were what? Eastern & southern Europeans
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Question 11 What court case established the Interstate Commerce Commission? Wabash v. Illinois
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Question 12 How many stories was the world’s first skyscraper? 10
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Question 13 Who wants to limit or cut immigration? Navivist
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Question 15 In the 1876 and 1888, the presidential candidates with the most popular votes lost the election where? Electoral College
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Question 16 What case established the“Separate but equal” doctrine? Plessy v. Ferguson
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Question 17 What two writers Sounded an alarm that all was not well in society? Mark Twain & Charles Warner
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Question 18 What could corporation achieve when they built larger manufacturing facilities? economies of scale
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Question 19 What catch phrase is associated with Social Darwinism? “Survival of the fittest”
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Question 20 Who would Work for low wages and upset unions because of it? immigrants
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Question 21 What is the Gospel of Wealth? philosophy that called for Americans with a great deal of money should use it for social progress
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Question 22 Who was the party boss of the political machine Tammany Hall? William M. Tweed
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Question 23 What was the horsecar used for in cities in the late 1800s? Mass transit
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Question 24 What group fought Chinese immigration? Workingman’s Party of CA
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Question 25 New technology helped farmers produce more crops, which tended to do what with the price of crops? Lower them
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Question 26 By appealing to poor whites, what political group did the Populist challenge in the South? Democrats
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Question 27 What limited the rates that railroads could charge in several western states? Granger Laws
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Question 28 The Supreme Court set the stage for legalized segregation by overturning what? Civil Rights Act of 1875
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Question 29 What act was passed that required competitive written examinations for govt. jobs? Pendleton Act
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Question 30 What was passed that led to the spread of colleges? Morrill Land Grant
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Question 31 What was the Great Railroad Strike? first nationwide labor protest
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Question 32 What did political machines want from new voters? Votes
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Question 33 What belief is person can rise as far as their talents will take them? Individualism
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Question 34 What are tariffs used for? Help American industries compete with Europe
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Question 35 The confrontation at Wounded Knee began because the government wanted the Lakota to stop what? Performing the Ghost Dance
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Question 36 The first salaried baseball team played in what city? Cincinnati
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Question 37 Supporters of the subtreasury plan believed that it would do what? Force crop prices upward
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Question 38 What is Naturalism? philosophy stated that people failed in life because of circumstances beyond their control
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