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When a single company achieves control of an entire market, it is known as
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a corporation.
an integration.
a monopoly.
an oligarchy.
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The Homestead Act gave land to homesteaders if they ____ for five years.
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planted crops on it
cut down trees on it
lived on it
fenced it off
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When a single company achieves control of an entire market, it is known as
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The Homestead Act gave land to homesteaders if they ____ for five years.
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The Comstock Lode was a rich deposit of
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The French nobleman who became an important member of General Washington’s staff was
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General Burgoyne’s plan at the Battle of Saratoga failed because
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Who led a military expedition to secure the Illinois Country?
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Who is the author of Common Sense?
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After the Revolutionary War, the United States was granted
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During which battle did Washington cross the Delaware?
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The Loyalists were also known as
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Who was chosen to command the Continental Army?
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The battle that effectively ended the war was
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Who did most of the actual writing of the Declaration of Independence?
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All of the following were weaknesses of the Articles EXCEPT
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Which of the following powers is NOT given to the national government by the Constitution?
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Which of the following helped cause the depression that started in 1784?
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Which of the following powers is NOT given to the states by the Constitution?
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The Virginia Plan
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The most powerful restriction on presidential authority is the legal process of
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Which of the following is an example of a concurrent power?
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Which of the following statements applies to the Great Compromise?
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Which one of these people was NOT a Federalist?
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Federal judges
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Since 1789 the Constitution has been amended
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The judicial branch has the power to
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During the Industrial Revolution, manufacturing shifted from hand tools to
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Cities grew in the United States during industrialization because
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A cotton gin
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John Quincy Adams won the presidency in 1824 because
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After the 1824 election, supporters of Jackson labeled themselves as Democrats, while Clay and his supporters formed a new party called the
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In the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819, Spain
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What transportation project from Albany to Buffalo was completed in 1825?
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The laws for establishing corporations passed by states beginning in the 1830s
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In the 1800s, workers in New England’s textile mills
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Which class made up most of the white population in the South?
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In his inaugural address, President Andrew Jackson declared his intention to
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President Jackson supported the spoils system because he believed that it
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At the time President Jackson took office, the Second Bank of the United States played an important role in
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While most Irish immigrants arriving in the United States between 1815 and 1860 had no money and few marketable skills, immigrants from Germany generally
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The new revivalism of the early 1800s rejected the idea that
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As a result of the efforts of Dorothea Dix and other reformers, more than a dozen states enacted sweeping prison reforms during the 1840s and created special institutions for
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The set of ideas known as “true womanhood” evolved from the belief that women should be homemakers and should take responsibility for
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In the 1830s, the abolitionist movement drew strength from the Second Great Awakening because abolitionists saw slavery as
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Abolitionists argued that enslaved African Americans should be freed
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Many Southerners saw abolitionism as an attack on their way of life and defended the institution of slavery because they
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First used in 1845, the term “Manifest Destiny” referred to the idea that God had given the continent to Americans and that
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In the 1830s, inventions such as the mechanical reaper and a plow with sharp-edged steel blades that cut cleanly through sod allowed settlers in the Midwest to
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Early travelers emigrating to the West feared attacks by Native American warriors, but in fact Native Americans
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For the far northern territories of California, New Mexico, and Texas, Mexico’s independence from Spain in 1821 was followed by
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After Mexican independence, American influence in the borderlands
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Under the National Colonization Act, Mexico gave 26 empresarios large grants of Texas land in exchange for a promise to
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Mexico closed its borders to further immigration by Americans in 1830, a move that angered settlers in Texas because
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The Battle of ____________________ in April 1836 marked the end of Texas’s War for Independence.
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In the 1844 presidential race, winning candidate James K. Polk promised to
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In the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico ceded about 500,000 square miles of territory to the United States, and the United States agreed to
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To receive a pardon under Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan, Southerners had to take an oath of loyalty to the United States and
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President Johnson challenged the Tenure of Office Act by
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Originally, the goal of the Ku Klux Klan was to
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Democrats charged that using “sin taxes” to pay off bonds favored the rich because
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Reconstruction ended when
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The ____________ was a secret society, started in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866 by former Confederate soldiers that rapidly spread throughout the South.
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By late 1870, all of the former Confederate states had rejoined the Union under the
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Many scalawags who did not want the wealthy planters to regain power were owners of small
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What was the overall purpose of black codes passed by the new Southern legislatures?
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The “long drive” was when:
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What effect did the use of barbed wire to fence off land on the open range have on cattle ranching?
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After ore deposits near the surface dwindled, mining corporations began using
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People using the phrase “Pikes Peak or Bust!” were
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Which of the following was a hardship faced by settlers on the Great Plains?
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Before the Sand Creek Massacre, the Cheyenne had come to Fort Lyon to
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The confrontation at Wounded Knee occurred because the chief’s followers
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Many Mexican Americans lost their lands in the West because