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- 1. One similarity between the Homestead Strike of 1892 and the Pullman
- Strike of 1894 was that:
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- (A) both involved railroad companies
- (B) both involved steel companies
- (C) both began as protests against new machinery
- (D) both began as protests against pay cuts
- (E) during both strikes, private detectives and guards were hired to
- intimidate workers
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- (D) Both strikes began as protests against pay cuts.
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- 2. A late 19th-century novel depicting a socialist utopia was:
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- (A) WALDEN by H. D. Thoreau
- (B) THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain
- (C) LOOKING BACKWARD by Edward Bellamy
- (D) SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
- (E) THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
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- (C) Edward Bellamy's extremely popular novel, LOOKING BACKWARD 2000-1887
- (1887), depicted a socialist utopia.
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- 3. "The unity of labor, economic and political, upon the basis of class
- struggle, is at the time, the supreme need of the working class." This
- statement would most likely have been made by:
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- (A) Theodore Roosevelt
- (B) Eugene Debs
- (C) Tom Watson
- (D) Frances Willard
- (E) J. P. Morgan
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- (B) Eugene Debs, founder and leader of the Socialist party, made the statement.
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- 4. Which of the following statements best describes a similarity between the
- Granger movement and the Knights of Labor?
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- (A) Both began as secret societies.
- (B) Both supported Republican policies.
- (C) Both were nativist movements.
- (D) Both became third parties.
- (E) Both urged monetary reform.
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- (A) Both the Grangers and the Knights of Labor began as secret societies. The
- Grange, or "Patrons of Husbandry," was formed in 1867 and the Knights of Labor
- in 1869.
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- 5. In the Open Door Notes of 1899, Secretary of State John Hay stated that the
- United States favored a China policy providing for:
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- (A) the abolition of all foreign concessions
- (B) an end to the Chinese tariff system
- (C) the equal treatment of the ships and goods of all nations
- (D) the repeal of all extraterritorial rights previously granted
- (E) a limitation of Chinese sovereignty over foreign settlements
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- (C) The Notes demanded equal treatment.
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- 6. John Dewey is most closely associated with:
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- (A) the establishment of free public schools
- (B) the founding of public libraries and universities
- (C) congressional legislation establishing land grant colleges
- (D) a system of philosophy that judges an idea by its results
- (E) progressive methods of education
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- (E) Dewey, a progressive philosopher, is best known for his educational
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- 7. The purpose of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine was:
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- (A) to protect American business interests in Latin America
- (B) to provide new opportunities for American investors in Latin America
- (C) to extend the American empire to Latin America
- (D) to provide opportunities for European businessmen in Latin America
- (E) to prevent European interference in Latin American affairs
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- (E) It was to prevent interference.
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- 8. President Wilson's response to the sinking of the LUSITANIA was to:
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- (A) declare war on Germany
- (B) end diplomatic relations with Germany
- (C) end all trade with Germany
- (D) place an embargo on all American trade abroad
- (E) demand that Germany end its submarine blockade
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- (E) When the British steamer LUSITANIA was sunk in 1915, President Wilson
- demanded that Germany end unrestricted submarine warfare.
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- 9. The constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of
- alcohol remained in effect from 1919 until:
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- (A) 1922
- (B) 1928
- (C) 1933
- (D) 1941
- (E) 1945
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- (C) Prohibition was repealed in 1933 by the 21st Amendment.
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