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At the end of the 19th century, the growing use of scientific management
techniques in manufacturing had resulted in - correct answer ✔much higher
productivity and profits but only slightly higher wages.


The theory of social Darwinism served to - correct answer ✔justify economic
inequality and curb social reform.


What factors contributed to the strikes and violent labor conflicts between
1877 and 1914? - correct answer ✔Introduction of new work habits that
threatened the economic security of the American worker.


The nation was first awakened to the power of striking workers with the -
correct answer ✔Great Railroad Strike of 1877.


Pointing to how powerful railroads had corrupted the political system, the
Populists - correct answer ✔called for government ownership of the railroads
and the telegraph system.


Which of the following statements about the People's Party is correct? -
correct answer ✔The People's Party is considered a partial success because
aspects of its reform agenda were adopted as law in the United States


The key role in the transformation of the American economy in the late
nineteenth century was played by the - correct answer ✔growth of the
railroad industry.

,Cattle raising became increasingly profitable in the 1860s and gave rise to the
lucrative cattle industry because of - correct answer ✔railroad expansion,
combined with population growth.


Congress' 1887 Dawes Act was intended to - correct answer ✔encourage
Indians to adopt white culture.


Participants in the Ghost Dance hoped to bring about - correct answer ✔an
apocalypse that would restore old Indian ways of life and control of American
lands.


Frederick Jackson Turner's argument that the frontier shaped the character of
Americans and the nation has been criticized by historians for which of the
following reasons? - correct answer ✔the thesis is too broad and minimizes
the complexity of diversity in the American West.


The wave of "new" immigration to the United States in the last few decades of
the nineteenth century occurred for all of the following reasons EXCEPT -
correct answer ✔economic subsidies offered by the American government.


Political machines spread and thrived in urban areas during the late
nineteenth century because - correct answer ✔they were able to provide
much-needed services to urban residents.


Public executions and lynchings of black men in the Jim Crow South were -
correct answer ✔designed to intimidate African Americans to accept second-
class status.


Ida B. Wells' campaign against lynching resulted in - correct answer
✔increased awareness of southern racial violence.

, Late-nineteenth-century industrialization in the United States - correct answer
✔transformed home and family life.


A major factor in the shift in American foreign policy toward imperialism in the
late nineteenth century was the - correct answer ✔need for overseas
markets for increased industrial and agricultural production.


After Spain formally ceded the Philippines to the United States in the Treaty of
Paris (1898), the Filipino revolutionaries who had greeted the U.S. troops as
liberators - correct answer ✔began a seven-year battle against their new
American masters.


The Roosevelt administration's decision to build a canal across the
Panamanian isthmus required - correct answer ✔the U.S. backing of a
Panamanian independence movement against Colombia.


Toward the end of the nineteenth century, meny Americans, inluding old-stock
elites and organized labor, joined together to - correct answer ✔press for
immigration restrictions.


The Progressive Movement is an example of - correct answer ✔a social
reform movement focused on government action to improve society


The Pure Food and Drug Act was passed by Congress in 1906 as the result of
- correct answer ✔public outcry following the publication of Upton Sinclair?s
novel The Jungle.


The settlement house and women's club movements were crucial centers of
female progressive activity because they - correct answer ✔introduced many
middle-class women to a broader array of urban social problems and civic
concerns.

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