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12558841482During the Gilded Age, most of the railroad baronsbuilt their railroads with government assistance0
12558844119The national government helped to finance transcontinental railroad construction in the late nineteenth century by providing the railroad corporations with.land grants1
12558846954One by-product of the development of the railroads wasThe movement of people to cities2
12558849198The greatest single factor helping to spur the amazing industrialization of the post-Civil War years wasthe railroad network3
12558851046The United States changed to standard time zones whenThe major rail lines decreed the division of the continent into four time zones so that they could keep schedules and avoid wrecks4
12558855047Efforts to regulate the monopolizing practices of railroad corporations first came in the form of action byState Legislature5
12558862434The first federal regulatory agency designed to protect the public interest from business combinations was theInterstate Commerce Commission.6
12558863792One of the methods by which post-Civil War business leaders increased their profits wasincreased competition.7
12558867531The first major product of the oil industry waskerosene8
12558871322The oil industry became a huge businessWith the invention of the internal combustion engine9
12559328737Generally, the Supreme Court in the late nineteenth century interpreted the Constitution in such a way as to favor.corporations10
12559335929______________Amendment was especially helpful to giant corporations when defending themselves against regulation by state governments1411
12559348094The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was primarily used to curb the power ofmanufacturing12
12559373546During the age of industrialization, the Southremained overwhelmingly rural and agricultural.13
12559502383The South's major attraction for potential investors wascheap labor14
12559512514One of the greatest changes that industrialization brought about in the lives of the workers wasthe need for them to adjust their lives to the time clock.15
12559846464A work place where you must be a member of the labor union to work was known asthe availability of industrial jobs .16
12559967674The New Immigrants who came to the United States after 1880culturally different from previous immigrants17
12559975168Birds of Passage' were..people who came to America to work for a short period of time and then returned to Europe .18
12559993117Most New ImmigrantsTried to preserve their Old Country culture in America.19
12575512566Carrie Chapman Catt argued that women should be granted the right to vote becauseSuffrage was the logical extension of a woman's traditional role in caring for her family.20
12575546210By 1900, congressional legislation barred ___________ from immigrating to America.chinese and contract laborers21
12575553258The New Immigrants to America after 1880-tended to settle in northeastern cities22
12575643698The subject of the Eighteenth Amendment wasProhibition23
12575649430One of the most important factors leading to an increased divorce rate in the late nineteenth century was theStresses of urban life.24
12575662582The Comstock Law was intended to advance the cause ofWoman suffrage.25
12575676802American novel-writing turned from romantic sentimentality to rugged realism as a result of theMaterialism of industrial society.26
12575685587In a country hungry for news, American newspapersbecame sensationalist27
12575688314During the industrial revolution, life expectancyincreased28
12575699770In the decades after the Civil War, college education for women29
12575716517Black leader Dr. W. E. B. Du BoisDemanded complete equality for African-Americans.30
12575725555The Morrill Act of 1862Granted public lands to states to support higher education.31
12575734073That a "talented tenth" of American blacks should lead the race to full social and political equality with whites was the view ofW. E. B. Du Bois.32
12575746074Booker T. Washington believed that the key to political and civil rights for African-Americans was33

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