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How did the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroad companies profit from constructing the railroad?

A
by selling railroad lines back to the government at a profit
B
by owning businesses in the towns that developed along the railroad
C
by building railroad monopolies and continually raising prices
D
by selling pieces of land granted to them to build the railroad
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Which of the following did Emma Hart Willard accomplish in 1826?

A
She persuaded Oberlin College to admit women.
B
She persuaded the courts to legalize contraception.
C
She organized the Seneca Falls Convention.
D
She founded the first all-girls high school in the US.
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Which of the following best describes why settlement houses offered to help immigrants learn to cook specific kinds of food?

A
to encourage them to assimilate into American culture
B
to help them provide for their families
C
to follow the social gospel
D
to help them retain their native culture
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Under the Dawes Act, the reservation land not allotted to American Indians was sold

A
to specific tribes as reservation land.
B
to American Indians who wanted more.
C
to white settlers and railroad companies.
D
to tribal chiefs to divide on their own.
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Jim Crow laws were a legalized system of

A
discrimination against African Americans.
B
integration of facilities in the South.
C
segregation of educational facilities.
D
separation of the North and South.
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During which decades did the US government pass all of the Indian Appropriation Acts?

A
1800-1830s
B
1830-1860s
C
1850-1880s
D
1870-1900s
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What was Upton Sinclair’s main purpose in writing The Jungle?

A
to promote the socialist views that he adopted as an adult
B
to explain why journalists had an obligation to tell the truth
C
to arouse public sympathy for slaughterhouse workers
D
to prompt Congress to pass food-safety laws
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The final battle in the American Indian Wars occurred at

A
Wounded Knee.
B
Little Bighorn.
C
Sand Creek.
D
Pike’s Peak.
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The Roosevelt Corollary was an extension of which of the following?

A
the gold standard
B
the Alaska Purchase
C
the Treaty of Paris
D
the Monroe Doctrine
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What was one way Progressives wanted to protect the rights of children?

A
by increasing their freedom
B
by eliminating child labor
C
by decreasing school hours
D
by restricting child labor
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Which of the following best describes Booker T. Washington?

A
a civil rights leader who was born into slavery and later worked to achieve racial equality
B
a civil rights leader who was born into slavery and later worked to abolish it
C
a civil rights leader who founded a university and was later elected to political office
D
a civil rights leader who was arrested for violating Jim Crow laws and later challenged them in court
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How did Theodore Roosevelt’s Square Deal help the environment?

A
by ending federal irrigation projects
B
by preserving the nation’s forests
C
by clearing and developing land
D
by limiting working hours
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In the late 1800s, the United States began to focus its foreign policy on

A
economic expansion.
B
imperialism.
C
military expansion.
D
nationalism.
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How did the efforts of Jane Addams differ from the efforts of Lincoln Steffens?

A
Addams worked to expose slum conditions through journalism; Steffens worked to provide health care to immigrants.
B
Addams worked to promote temperance; Steffens worked to run settlement houses.
C
Addams worked to establish settlement houses for immigrants; Steffens worked to expose government corruption.
D
Addams worked to reform factory labor laws; Steffens worked to teach immigrants American culture.
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Which best describes Carrie Chapman Catt’s “Winning Plan” to achieve national women's suffrage?

A
to demand a constitutional amendment instead of campaigning for suffrage in individual states
B
to campaign strongly for women’s suffrage on the state level instead of lobbying Congress to pass a constitutional amendment
C
to win women’s suffrage in as many states as possible while campaigning Congress to pass a constitutional amendment
D
to amend the US Constitution to grant women suffrage and then establish it in individual states

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