How did the federal and state governments encourage railroad building in the nineteenth century?

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How and why did transportation developments spark economic growth during the period from 1860 to 1900 in the United States?
What late nineteenth century development made it for rural Americans?
Who created the blueprint for American economic expansion and later imperialism?
Which of the following events demonstrated the newfound international power of the US in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War?

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How did the federal and state governments encourage railroad building in the nineteenth century?	Public land grants to private companies
which constitutional amendment did the Supreme Court use in the 1870s to the the 1890s to protect the rights of corporations- even though it had been written to protect individua; rights?	"Due Process" clause of the 14th amendment
Which of the following was one of the reasons that the United States encourages Chinese immigration after the Civil War?
In 1867, the United States bought Alaska from	Russia
Which of the following describes the Homestead Act of 1862?	Homesteaders were required to occupy and improve land
In the 1860s and 1870s, Nevada's Comstock Lode, Colorado's Rocky Mountains, and South Dakota's Black hills were all known for	being mountains
Which of the following developments made open ranching feasible on Great Plains between the 1860s and the 1880s?	Availability of free land
Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the post- Civil War western cattle boom?	It's high profits attracted shrewd investors
Which of the following technological advances played an important role in opening up the Great Plains to farming?	Steel plows and other farm machinery
Which of the following groups called themselves the Exodusters in 1879?	African Americans migrating to the Great Plains
Which of the following statements describes women's experience in the West in the late nineteenth century?	Single women made up between 5 and 20 percent of homesteaders in North Dakota
Which of the following is true of the Sand Creek Massacre?
Which president refashioned U.S. Indian policy in the latter half of the nineteenth century?	Grant
What was the purpose of Indian boarding schools in the late nineteenth century?
The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was intended to	Persuade Indians to abandon their traditional tribal cultures
Which of the following phenomena led the U.S. government to dismantle the Indian reservation system it had previously established?	White land hunger
Why did the Ghost Dance movement spread so quickly in Native American reservations in the late 1880s and early 1890s	The dance fostered native people's hopes that they could drive away white settlers
Which of the following statements describes the historical significance of the battle of Wounded Knee?
What was the result of the first wildlife protection bill passed by Congress in 1874?	President Grant vetoed the bill because he knew that killing the buffalo would cripple the Indian resistance
Farmers on the Great Plains in the late nineteenth century often faced which of the following natural challenges that could easily destroy crops	Hailstorms
Who of the following represented the American notion that through hard work, even a poor immigrant could become tremendously successful?	Andrew Carnegie
Why was the strike by steelworkers at Homestead, Pennsylvania, significant?	The lockout represented Carnegie's effort to break the plants union
New corporate managers pioneered which system to track expenses and revenues in the late nineteenth century?	Cost Accounting
Gustavus Swift boosted productivity in his Chicago slaughterhouses in the 1860s by	Assembly lines
Which of the following describes vertically integrated corporations?	Such corporations control all aspects of their operations
Which business strategy did John D. Rockefeller pioneer in the late nineteenth century?	Horizontal integration
The United States had become the leading steel producer in the world by 1900 because of	The Bessemer process
How did John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Corporation come to control 95 percent of the nation's oil refining capacity by the 1880s?	Through predatory pricing and the creation of the trust
What late nineteenth century development made it possible for rural Americans to participate in the national consumer culture	Catalogs
The development of print advertising illustrates the significance of which late nineteenth century phenomenon?	Business creating demand for Brennan names
Which magazine was the first to take advantages of advertising revenue to build mass leadership, with over one million subscribers?	Ladies home journal
Which of the following was a consequence of mass production?	Skilled workers gradually lost their autonomy
The outcome of the implementation of scientific management was	resistance from workers
Which of the following statements characterizes the economics of working-class family life in the late nineteenth century?	In 1900, one of every five children below age 6 worked for wages
Why did so few African American men hold factory jobs in the United States in 1890?	White-dominated labor unions generally refused to allow blacks to join and seek industrial employment
Which of the following statements describes the experiences of the new immigrants who entered the United States between 1880 and 1920	They often planned on working and saving money for a few years before returning home
The federal government responded to the problem of discrimination against Chinese in nineteenth century California by	Barring Chinese immigration to the United States
In terms of membership, the Knights of Labor discriminated	Specifically against Chinese
Hwy was the Haymarket incident of 1886 significant	Led to the downfall of the Knights of Labor
Why was the American Federation of Labor more successful then the Knights of Labor in the late nineteenth century	The AFL focused on goals such as better wages, hours, and working conditions

How and why did transportation developments spark economic growth during the period from 1860 to 1900 in the United States?

Between 1860 and 1900, the U.S. enjoyed a period of massive economic growth. One of the main contributors in this growth was the development of railroads and other forms of transportation because it broadened the market for goods, sparked economic success in other markets, and brought new opportunities.

What late nineteenth century development made it for rural Americans?

What late-nineteenth-century development made it possible for rural Americans to participate in the national consumer culture? water to coal. the Bessemer process. Who of the following represented the American notion that through hard work, even a poor immigrant could become tremendously successful?

Who created the blueprint for American economic expansion and later imperialism?

Which Reconstruction-era politician created the blueprint for American economic expansion and later imperialism? William Seward. You just studied 40 terms!

Which of the following events demonstrated the newfound international power of the US in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War?

Which of the following events demonstrated the newfound international power of the United States in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War? Britain's damage payments to the United States.

How did the federal and state governments encourage railroad building in the nineteenth century?

How and why did transportation developments spark economic growth during the period from 1860 to 1900 in the United States?

What late nineteenth century development made it for rural Americans?

Who created the blueprint for American economic expansion and later imperialism?

Which of the following events demonstrated the newfound international power of the US in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War?

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