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US history exam with kraft
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History
12th Grade
12/14/2011

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How did southern states restrict rights of freed slaves?
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Black codes
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What was the main goal of the kkk during reconstruction?
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to prevent african americans from excersizing rights
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what was president licolns main hope for reconstruction?
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to bring a nation together and to create lasting peace
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what was the goal of the freedman's bureau?
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helped freed slaves adjust to freedom
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what was the characteristic of the south after the civil war?
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cash crops
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When did reconstruction end?
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when the federal troops were removed from the south
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why could many poor white laborers no longer find work?
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competition of freedom
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what did the 15th amendment provide african americans with?
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black men can vote
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what was reconstruction succesful on rebuilding in the south
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rail-roads
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what enabled the industrial growth of the late 18oo's
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advanced technology
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what were some revolutionary communication inventions in the late 1800's
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telephone and telegraph
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What was the goal of the sherman ati-trust act?
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to promote fair industrial competion
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How did the government respond to the Pullman strike
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used federal troops to control workers
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How did John D. Rockefeller gain control over much of the oil industry? what did he form
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managing a trust made up of government allied coap
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Explain the buisness cycle
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expansion and recession
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why did children work in factories during the late 1800's
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To support families
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what did the bessemer process enable to be created
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golden gate bridge
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according to the social darwinism, what was the role of the government in the economic matters?
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government started out of buisness affairs
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how did employers try and crush labor unions
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yellow day
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what was a major complaint of farmers in the late 1800's
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high tarrifs on manufactured goals
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what did the interstate commerce act do
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regulate railroad rules and prices
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why did black exodusters migrate west?
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escape radical industries
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what was a key requierment of the land owners under the homestead act
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farm for 5 years
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what was a major incitive on settling the west
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free land
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what happend to the native american tribe as settlers moved west
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they were destroyed
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what did the white reformers think should happen to the native americans
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Assimilation
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how did new technology help farmers
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saves time and effort
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what created the mining boom that started the California Gold Rush
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lure of quick weath
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who did American presidents support in the late 1800's
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big buisnesses
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what was the larest port of entry for the majority of immigrants
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loyalty
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what attracted many asians to the us
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jobs with american railroad companies
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what did immigration and idustrial productivity mean for city-states
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over crowded
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why did immigrants support political machines
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they were provided good jobs
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the Pendelton Civil Service act did what
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end the spoil system
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prohibitonaists and purity crusaders supported what
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prohibtitons
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what attracted immigrants to the u.s
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opportunity for a better life
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what did purity crusaders want to rid their communties of
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vice
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60% of american children attended school because
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they had to
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what was the ruling in the court case of Plessy vs. Furgeson
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segregation legal
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what group in society was most likely to attend college
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weathy white men
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W.E.B du bois argued blacks should educate themselves so they could
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provide leadership
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participation in volunteer organizations helped many women
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with confidence and it made them a part of something
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how did immigrants regard public education
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they thought it was going to destroy their heritage
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Booker T. Washington was an advocate of what in schools
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path to education
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why was the NAACP founded
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National Association for the Advancment of colored people
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what was the centeral message of the Roosevelt Corollary?
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something to prevent affairs with other countries
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why did Eurapean andAmerican imperilism expand?
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nationalism
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under impiralism the stronger nation attempts to do wht
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crew empire
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what were the banana republics of central America
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controlled by american buisnesses
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Why did the U.S annex Hawaii
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u.s needed naval stations in the pacific
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who were those who favored imperilism in the U.S argue?
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new markets
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what did the cruise of the Great White Fleet prove?
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we had naval power
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what did most progessives agree should happen to workers and the poor?
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help them
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why did wilson create the federal reserve system
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to recognize federal banking system
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what should the U.S be in regards to citizens according to the progessives
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free economic
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President Taft's handling of what situation made the Republicans angry?
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Roosevelt's promise
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What was the main difference between wilson and the TR's 1912 campaign promises
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wilsom promises to reserve free economic
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Upton sinclair's the jungle book exposed dangerouse working conditions in what industry?
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the meat packing industry
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Muckrackers did what
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dug up bad stuff and used it against people
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what level of government was a level to regulate political machines
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municipal reforms
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what was one way reformed hooped to end corruption in the government
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forced by lobor unions
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which group was mostly affected by the clayton anti-trust act
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favored labor unions
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what role did the government play in the wartime economy?
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regulate the production of war goods
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what were some of the causes of WW1
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imperialism, nationalism, alliances, militarism
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what was the sussex pledge
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pledge by the german government in 1916 the it's summarines would warn ships before attacking
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why did the U.S enter into WW1
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germany tested wilsons patience
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What was the Selective servic act?
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a law passing in 1917 lagalizing the draft of youg men in ww1
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what event triggered ww1 in eureope
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the usage of submarine war fare
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what was the death toll like in ww1
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50,000
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what did the sedition act make illegal in the us
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made it illegal to obstruct liberty bonds or form of gov't, costitution, or the army and the navy
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did the u.s senate eccept the treaty of Versailles
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guilt and financial responsibility
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what was a result in prohibition
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it sharpened the contrast between urban and rural moral slaves
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what movement did Marcus Gravey lead
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the gravey movement
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the economy grew in th 1920's as a consumers
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large amount of spendings
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The national orgins act of 1924 reduced the number of people who could do what?
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immigrate
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a consumer economy is one that depends and a large amount of
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money
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