Question 1

Which result completes this diagram?

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Expansion of labor unions

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Passage of prohibition legislation

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Building of the transcontinental railroad

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Ratification of a suffrage amendment

Question 2

The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor developed in response to the

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increased need to protect worker interests

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decreased power of political machines

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increased demand for skilled workers

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decreased profitability of the agricultural sector

Question 3

During the Gilded Age there was a notable increase in the federal support for

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the growth of big business

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the acquisition of foreign territories

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increased temperance regulations

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involvement in foreign wars

Question 4

One way the US government responded to the problems caused by the conditions in this list was by

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passing the Interstate Commerce Act

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establishing a new tax on capital gains

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implementing the silver standard for currency

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creating federal jobs program for the unemployed

Question 5

This cover from a nineteenth century periodical helps illustrate that the United States was beginning to change from

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a mostly rural society to a mostly urban one

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a direct democracy to a representative one

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a foreign policy of isolationism to one of interventionism

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a slave-owning society to one without slavery

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