A) barring blacks from ever entering "whites only" railroad cars.
B) an exodus of over 90 percent of African-Americans northward.
C) businesses serving whites before blacks.
D) a growing number of white immigrants from Europe.
E) refusing business to black customers.
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A) Northern investors stayed away, appalled by southern race relations.
B) Northerners considered a South without African-Americans in chains too risky for investment.
C) Investors looked for cheap labor and low taxes, but made few capital investments in the region.
D) Southern white supremacists tended to scare off northern capital industries.
E) Southern Klansmen scared away many interested investors.
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A) determined that Puerto Ricans and Filipinos would become U.S. citizens in 1904.
B) held that the Constitution did not fully apply to the territories acquired during the Spanish-American War.
C) determined that Puerto Ricans and Filipinos were entitled to the same rights as U.S. citizens.
D) held that the annexation of the Philippines violated the Fourteenth Amendment.
E) ruled that the Foraker Act of 1900, which declared Puerto Rico an "insular territory," was unconstitutional.
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A) slaves escaping through the Underground Railroad before the Civil War
B) immigrants leaving war-torn Europe
C) Russian refugees escaping the tsar's pogroms
D) slaves escaping the Roman Empire
E) an Old Testament story in the Bible
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A) They formed their own secret militant organization.
B) They used their positions in domestic service for sabotage, pilfering, and revenge.
C) They insisted on the equal respectability of black women by working for "racial uplift."
D) They stressed the supremacy of their men to counter claims that black families lacked patriarchal order.
E) African-American women's organizations established gun clubs and shooting ranges to improve their skills at self-defense.
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A) was largely driven by the desire for expanded overseas trade.
B) was hampered by the continued U.S. observance of the Monroe Doctrine.
C) had little to do with American consumer demand for foreign products.
D) severely depressed the nation's agricultural and industrial production.
E) was not affected by the development of the railroad.
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A) ended with the arrival of Coxey's Army, a private security agency hired by George Pullman.
B) crippled national rail service and triggered the arrest of union president Eugene V. Debs.
C) resulted in a rare compromise between the American Railway Union and Pullman Sleeping Cars.
D) received unexpected support from Attorney General Richard Olney, who believed in the rights of railroad workers to a fair wage.
E) led to public disapproval of union president Eugene V. Debs.
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A) birth in the United States.
B) status as an educated and superior race.
C) feminine sensibilities.
D) service as volunteers during the Civil War.
E) identity as taxpayers.
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A) The United States had a natural curiosity in regard to world cultures.
B) America was a benevolent power that needed to spread liberty.
C) America needed to subjugate "inferior" cultures.
D) The United States needed to focus on gaining access to Europe since most of her immigrants came from this continent.
E) America needed to stop the communists from taking over Russia.
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A) called for the unrestricted minting of silver money.
B) angered Populists after giving a fiery convention speech denouncing the "free coinage" of silver.
C) failed to win enough support from the Democratic Party as the nominee for president in 1896.
D) entered politics late in life, after a successful career as a Methodist minister.
E) had a weak presidential campaign after he refused numerous speaking engagements.
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A) symbiotic
B) subservient
C) hopeful
D) totally isolated
E) free
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A) poverty.
B) northern cities.
C) plantations.
D) the urban black middle class.
E) white aristocracy.
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