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Which ocean flows between Africa and South America?
A. Indian Ocean
B. Pacific Ocean.
C. Atlantic Ocean
D. Arctic Ocean |
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Which invention or technology made it possible to grow wheat on the western sections of the Great Plains?
a. Barbed wire
b. Dry farming
c. The mechanical reaper
d. windmills |
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Through which continent does the equator not pass?
A. Africa
B. Asia
C. North America
D. South America |
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Which ocean flows between Africa and South America?
A. Arctic Ocean
B. Atlantic Ocean
C. Indian Ocean
D. Pacific Ocean |
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What helps to explain why Colorado was settled before the lands to the north and south?
A. Its cattle trails
B. Its flat terrain
C. Its gold and silver mines
D. Its mild climate |
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| c. Its gold and silver mines |
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What do you think was the main reason the U.S. government wanted the Indians to move onto the reservations?
A. To keep them from starving
B. To preserve the remaining buffalos
C. To stop them struggling with white settlers for land
D. New skills |
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| C. To stop them struggling with white settlers for land |
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What brought about the Industrial Revolution?
A. Better trained workers
B. More easily available credit
C. New machinery and technology
D. Struggles for better working conditions |
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| c. New machinery and technology |
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Which industrialist is correctly paired with the industry he helped to develop?
A. Andrew Carnegie--automobiles
B. Henry Ford-Steel
C. J.P.Morgan- meat packing
D. John D. Rockfeller--oil |
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| D. John Rockefeller---oil |
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Immigrants came to the U.S. from many parts of the world in the 1800s. Which group traveled the smallest distance from their homeland?
A. Chinese
B. French-Canadians
C. Irish
D. Jews |
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The growth of cities was mainly the result of -
A. an improvement in living conditions
B. Better urban planning
C. the extension of city limits into rural areas
D. the huge number of immigrants entering the country |
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| D. the huge number of immigrants entering the country |
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Why do you think Nast's cartoons helped to bring about the downfall of Boss Tweed?
A.made Tweed look like a Nativist reformer.
B.Tweed was out of touch with the common people
C. Tweed looked like a large bird
D. Told people how corrupt Tweed was |
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| D. They told people how corrupt Tweed was. |
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Share cropping was concentrated mainly in those areas where cotton began to be grown after the invention of the cotton gin. Where was this?
A. Central and southern FL
B. The coastal areas of GA and SG
C. E. Texas and broad strip of land between AL + VA |
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| C. Eastern Texas and a broad strip of land between Alabama and southern Virginia |
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Which technique was used to keep black men from voting?
A. Placing polling booths in white sections of town
B.voters to buy voter registration forms
C. voters to pass a test about the Constitution
D. Telling men that they would lose their jobs |
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| C.Requiring voters to pass a test about the Constitution |
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The main purpose of the Jim Crow laws was to--
A. encourage black and white citizens to help each other
B. encourage boycotts
C. encourage the growth of black-owned businesses
D. separate black and whites |
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| D. separate black and whites |
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What is Jane Addams mainly known for?
F. The creation of the American Federation of Labor
G. The work of Hull House
H. Her work in the women's suffrage movement
J. Writing a history of the Standard Oil Co. |
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| G. the work of Hull-house |
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A term used to describe a group of reformers with vastly different goals__
F. Immigrants
G. Progressivism
H. Temperance Movement
J. racism |
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What brought about the Industrial Revolution?
A. Better trained workers
B. more easily available credit
C. new machinery and technology
D. struggles for better working conditions |
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| C. new machinery and technology |
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