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- 1. The United States acquired the territory of Hawaii by:
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- (A) invading and conquering it
- (B) purchasing it from England
- (C) purchasing it from Japan
- (D) purchasing it from China
- (E) a joint resolution of Congress
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- (E) Americans had heavy investments in Hawaiian sugar plantations, which
- spurred support for the acquisition of Hawaii. Congress annexed Hawaii by
- joint resolution in 1898.
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- 2. The Tweed Ring of the post-Civil War era was:
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- (A) a group of stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad
- (B) a conspiracy to defraud the federal government
- (C) an organization of corrupt politicians in New York
- (D) a group of political cartoonists
- (E) any group of petty criminals in a large city
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- (C) The Tweed Ring illegally collected funds and bribed public officials.
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- 3. "Greenbacks" were desired primarily by:
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- (A) factory owners and manufacturers who needed credit
- (B) financiers who had invested in railroads
- (C) stockholders of state banks
- (D) farmers and of the South and West
- (E) supporters of the gold standard
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- (D) The term "greenbacks" refers to inflationary paper money printed without
- backing. Farmers, who needed easy credit, were the major supporters of
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- 4. A major goal of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 was to:
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- (A) end railroad abuses that hindered interstate shipment of goods
- (B) enable railroad companies to pool their rates and lower prices
- (C) prevent competition among railroad lines
- (D) enable the federal government to establish freight rates
- (E) provide government ownership and management of transportation and
- communication lines
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- (A) Interstate commerce was regulated.
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- 5. "The millionaires are a product of natural selection . . . There is the
- intensest competition for their place and occupation." This statement most
- accurately reflects the views of a:
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- (A) progressive reformer
- (B) Mugwump
- (C) Social Darwinist
- (D) nativist
- (E) Socialist
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- (C) The statement was made by William Graham Sumner, a leading exponent of the
- application of Darwinian theories to the study of society.
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- 6. The main provision of the Sherman Antitrust Act was intended to:
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- (A) repeal the Clayton Act
- (B) repeal the Interstate Commerce Act
- (C) outlaw unions that impeded interstate commerce
- (D) outlaw conspiracies in restraint of trade
- (E) insure that commerce between and among states remained under the
- control of state governments
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- (D) The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 outlawed contracts, combinations or
- conspiracy "in restraint of trade."
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- 7. A "nativist" may be most accurately defined as:
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- (A) an opponent of immigration
- (B) a supporter of the "melting pot" theory
- (C) an advocate of the interests of American Indians
- (D) a proponent of the establishment of Indian reservations
- (E) an agrarian supporter of a "return to the soil"
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- (A) A nativist is a person who opposed immigration.
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- 8. New immigrants of the late 19th century established their own self-help
- organizations in the form of:
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- (A) settlement houses
- (B) political parties
- (C) burial and insurance societies
- (D) public school systems
- (E) utopian communities
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- (C) New immigrants in urban areas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
- organized burial and insurance societies and other self-help organizations.
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- 9. Which of the following presidential candidates advocated currency inflation
- through silver coinage?
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- (A) McKinley
- (B) Bryan
- (C) Greeley
- (D) Cleveland
- (E) Taft
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- (B) William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic and Populist candidate for President
- in 1896, advocated currency inflation through silver coinage. He lost the
- election to McKinley.
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