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In this quotation, Dr. Bronson is describing

A
intimidation, scare tactics, and violence perpetrated by both the police and the Ku Klux Klan against African American citizens.
B
conflicts between the police and the Ku Klux Klan that caused violence in the city he lived in.
C
how the police protected African American citizens from intimidation, scare tactics, and violence perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan.
D
how residents protected each other from the Ku Klux Klan and the police in the city he lived in.
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Which of these was a reason that Roosevelt sued the Northern Securities Company?

A
Northern Securities controlled all mail delivery between Chicago and New York.
B
Northern Securities controlled all meat packing between Chicago and Detroit.
C
Northern Securities controlled all rail service between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest.
D
Northern Securities controlled all freight service between Chicago and Los Angeles.
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Which issue caused Roosevelt to seek a “square deal” for the environment in 1900?

A
swamp land
B
deforestation
C
conditions at meat-packing plants
D
political corruption in farm areas
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How many immigrants arrived in the United States between 1875 and 1910?

A
fewer than 800,000
B
almost 8 million
C
about 2 million
D
more than 20 million
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Which leader in the early 1900s supported the idea that African Americans should temporarily accept inequality while working to gain job skills and obtain economic independence?

A
Homer Plessy
B
Booker T. Washington
C
W. E. B. Du Bois
D
William English Walling
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Read the quote from Applied Christianity: Moral Aspects of Social Questions by Washington Gladden. “In every community there are men of goodwill, who, if they had the money, could organize [efforts] among the [poorest] classes by which many of them could be saved...” Who are the “men of goodwill” that Gladden describes?

A
social Darwinists
B
wealthy people
C
reformers
D
immigrants
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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, reformers helped immigrants assimilate into American culture by

A
isolating them from American citizens.
B
teaching them foreign languages.
C
teaching them how to speak English.
D
separating them from their family members.
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When were Jim Crow laws first legislated and enforced on Black people?

A
starting in the 1950s during the civil rights movement
B
starting in the late 1800s into the 1960s
C
starting after the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling
D
starting in the 1600s with colonial slavery
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Read the quotation from Booker T. Washington's 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech. In the great leap from slavery to freedom . . . the masses of us are to live by the production of our hands . . . we shall prosper . . . as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor. According to this quotation, Washington believed that

A
hard work was not more important than education.
B
people had to prosper in order to achieve freedom.
C
hard work had its own kind of dignity.
D
people could not prosper from common labor.
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Which best describes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony?

A
the first two American women to vote legally in a national election
B
two women who formed the National Woman Suffrage Association
C
the first two American women to hold national elected office
D
two women who formed the American Abortionist Movement
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In the early 1800s, female reformers focused on the issue(s) of:

A
women's right to vote.
B
women's access to health care and health education.
C
temperance, abolition, and women's access to education.
D
temperance only.
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Which of these shows the correct order of events?

A
Catt’s “Winning Plan,” the Nineteenth Amendment, suffrage in some Western states
B
suffrage in some Western states, Catt’s “Winning Plan,” the Nineteenth Amendment
C
suffrage in some Western states, the Nineteenth Amendment, Catt’s “Winning Plan”
D
Catt’s “Winning Plan,” suffrage in some Western states, the Nineteenth Amendment
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How did the number of new immigrants around the turn of the twentieth century affect the number of acculturation programs in the United States?

A
A small number of immigrants arrived, so the number of acculturation programs at settlement houses remained the same.
B
A small number of immigrants arrived, so many settlement houses stopped offering acculturation programs.
C
A large number of immigrants arrived, and they sought acculturation programs at settlement houses.
D
A large number of immigrants arrived, but most settlement houses closed and stopped offering acculturation programs.
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Which of these women’s rights advocates fought for women’s suffrage, abolishment of slavery, and co-authored the Declaration of Sentiments declaring that women were created equal with men?

A
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
B
Carrie Chapman Catt
C
Jeannette Rankin
D
Margaret Sanger
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How did the 1840 World’s Anti-Slavery Convention affect the women’s suffrage movement?

A
Women were not allowed to fully participate in the convention; this led several key female activists to shift their focus to women's rights.
B
Women and men participated equally in the convention; this helped show the US government that women deserved the right to vote.
C
Women and men participated equally in the convention; this raised the profile of several key female activists.
D
Women were not allowed to fully participate in the convention; this directly led to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
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Who received benefits from settlement houses in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

A
immigrants who had recently come to America
B
young women from wealthy families
C
reformers like Jacob Riis and Lincoln Steffens
D
members of the middle-class people who needed a place to live
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The government sued the Northern Securities Railroad Trust because it thought the trust was

A
a legal monopoly that would control too much shipping.
B
an illegal monopoly that was preying on citizens.
C
a legal trust that was mistreating its workers.
D
an illegal trust that was harming the environment.
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Which of these was the goal of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s National Woman Suffrage Association?

A
the passage of a constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote
B
the abolition of slavery throughout the US
C
the establishment of women’s colleges throughout the US
D
the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment in Congress
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The court case Plessy v. Ferguson challenged the legality of

A
“separate but equal” schools.
B
racially segregated housing.
C
racially segregated facilities.
D
scare tactics to enforce Jim Crow laws.
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What was one way Progressives wanted to regulate railroads?

A
by limiting the number of states through which railroads could travel
B
by limiting the fees railroads could charge for carrying freight
C
by determining the amount of taxes the railroads had to pay
D
by determining the wages paid to railroad workers

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