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- 1. The Copperheads of the Civil War era can be best described as:
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- (A) traitors within the Confederacy
- (B) union spies within the Confederacy
- (C) dissenters within the Union
- (D) Union soldiers trapped behind Confederate lines
- (E) former slaves serving in the Union Army
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- (C) "Copperhead" was the derogatory term used for Union Democrats who opposed
- the Lincoln Administration during the Civil War.
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- 2. All of the following characterized the southern states during
- Reconstruction EXCEPT:
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- (A) widespread tenant farming
- (B) the development of black public schools
- (C) the election of black legislators
- (D) the election of black governors
- (E) the organization of vigilante groups opposed to black civil rights
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- (D) There were no black governors in the South during Reconstruction.
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- 3. Between 1870 and 1910, the population of the United States rose from under
- 40 million to over 90 million. Which of the following factors was the MOST
- significant cause of this increase?
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- (A) a rise in the birth rate
- (B) a dramatic rise in longevity
- (C) the imposition of immigration restrictions
- (D) an influx of immigrants from sections of Europe
- (E) the continued availability of large areas of free, uninhabited land
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- (D) One main cause was immigration.
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- 4. To which of the following groups were high tariffs of the late 19th century
- most injurious?
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- (A) large industrial corporations
- (B) domestic manufacturers with small factories
- (C) midwestern farmers selling agricultural products
- (D) new businesses that began in the post-Civil War era
- (E) the Republican party
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- (C) High tariffs of the late 19th century were injurious to farmers who
- received low prices for their products.
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- 5. The first coeducational college in the United States was:
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- (A) Mount Holyoke College
- (B) Oberlin College
- (C) Harvard College
- (D) Vassar College
- (E) The University of California
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- (B) Oberlin College, founded in 1833, became the first coeducational college
- in the United States.
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- 6. The "Gospel of Wealth" is a philosophy associated with:
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- (A) Andrew Carnegie
- (B) Henry James
- (C) Henry Adams
- (D) Lincoln Steffens
- (E) J. P. Morgan
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- (A) Industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie explained the "Gospel of
- Wealth" in a famous essay of 1900. The wealthy, said Carnegie, should donate
- funds to the causes they favored before they died. He supported public
- libraries and universities.
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- 7. THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK, published in 1903, can be best described as:
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- (A) a statement of philosophy by Booker T. Washington
- (B) the autobiography of Frederick Douglass
- (C) a policy statement by the founders of the NAACP
- (D) a volume of essays by W. E. B. DuBois
- (E) a short-lived black newspaper in Atlanta
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- (D) In this writing, W. E. B. DuBois criticized Booker T. Washington.
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- 8. The Omaha Convention of 1892 is most closely associated with the:
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- (A) Republicans
- (B) Democrats
- (C) Progressives
- (D) Greenbackers
- (E) Populists
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- (E) The Populist platform supported free silver, government ownership of
- transportation and communication lines, a graduated income tax, direct election
- of Senators, adoption of electoral reforms, and restrictions on immigration.
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- 9. A symbol of the Red Scare of the 1920s was the:
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- (A) Scopes trial
- (B) Hiss case
- (C) Smith Act
- (D) Un-American Activities Committee
- (E) Sacco-Vanzetti trial
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- (E) To many, this case came to symbolize the nativism and conservatism of the
- 1920s.
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