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| Native American Plains Indians were unable to withstand white incursions mainly because of |
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| the destruction of the buffalo herds. |
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| Andrew Carnegie worked to achieve vertical integration in his business, which meant |
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| controlling all aspects of an industry, from raw materials to finished products. |
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| The situation for American workers had begun to change by the 1870s as |
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| technology began to replace craft skills with machines, with the result that workers were relegated to less skilled areas. |
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| The American Federation of Labor |
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| excluded the majority of industrial workers. |
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| As the number of immigrants increased in the late 1800s |
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| prejudice and religious intolerance increased. |
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| In the final days of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln |
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| insisted that the Confederacy had no legal right to exist. |
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| At the end of the Civil War, the number of slaves in the United States was |
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| In 1865, Southern whites defined “freedom” as |
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| controlling their future without Northern interference. |
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| In 1865, Southern blacks defined “freedom” as |
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| All these answers are correct. |
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| distributed food to millions of Southern blacks. |
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| President Abraham Lincoln’s “ten percent” plan for the South referred to |
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| the number of white voters required to take loyalty oaths before setting up a state government. |
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| called for the disenfranchisement of leading Confederates. |
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| The story of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln |
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| involved a larger conspiracy to kill other members of the administration. |
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| At the conclusion of President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial, |
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| Johnson was spared conviction by one vote. |
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| During Reconstruction, there was a dramatic improvement in Southern |
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| In the South, the crop-lien system |
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| encouraged the planting of cash crops. |
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| During the Grant administration, the United States acquired |
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| The “redeemed” governments of the South |
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| saw an end to occupation by federal troops. |
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| During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Southern agriculture |
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| saw the great majority of farmers live under the tenant system. |
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| imposed a system of state-supported segregation. |
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| In the 1890s, the black journalist Ida B. Wells devoted her writing to attacking |
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| The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that |
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| racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal “accommodations.” |
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| National support for Reconstruction was undermined by |
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| All these answers are correct. |
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| After Reconstruction, political power under Southern “Redeemers” |
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| was very often restricted and conservative. |
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| Among his ideas, Booker T. Washington |
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| favored industrial over classical education. |
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