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Chapter 17: Challenges to Government and Corporate Power: Resistance and Reform

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Throughout the entire "Gilded Age," employers had the power to:

handpick senators sent to Washington.impose 10- to 15-hour days, six days a week.make commercial treaties with other nations.suspend certain civil rights that were deemed a challenge to fair trade.set prices at will in their respective industries.

Knights of Labor organizer,__________, worked to focus attention on the poor treatment of women in the workplace.

Leonora BarrySusan B. AnthonyJane AddamsElizabeth Cady StantonLucy Parsons

The detective agency that served as a sort of private army for capital in the decades of intense labor/capital conflict was called:

the Molly Maguires.the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.the Knights of Labor.the American Federation of Labor.the Knights of the White Camellia.

Henry George's book, ___________, advocated a single tax on property as a means of redistributing the national wealth.

The Shame of the CitiesThe Gilded AgePoverty and ProgressLooking BackwardOur America

The bombing at ______________ proved to be a serious setback to organizing efforts after 1886.

Coeur d'Alene, IdahoHaymarket SquareScottsboro, AlabamaBirmingham, AlabamaPittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Jacob Riis's investigative reports on conditions in New York City ghettos resulted in the book:

Looking Backward.Our America.The Shame of the Cities.How the Other Half Lives.Progress and Poverty.

As the reservation system faltered in the late 19^th century, reformers looked to the policy of ___________ to remedy conditions in the Indian nations and ease Native Americans into American society.

re-educationextermination assimilationforced relocationbenign neglect

In 1889, Chicago reformer Jane Addams established ____________ as a way to reach out to poor immigrant neighborhoods.

the Catholic Worker HouseToynbee Hallthe Neighborhood GuildHull HouseStarr House

Frances Willard founded the _____________, an example of the late 19^th century missionary impulse towards social purity.

National Rights AssociationWomen's Christian Temperance UnionHull HouseAnti-Saloon LeagueEqual Suffrage Association

Popular journals such as __________ reported on social policy and reform issues.

Godey's Ladies BookAtlantic Monthlythe NationNorth American ReviewHarper's

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Throughout the entire "Gilded Age," employers had the power to:

Knights of Labor organizer,__________, worked to focus attention on the poor treatment of women in the workplace.

The detective agency that served as a sort of private army for capital in the decades of intense labor/capital conflict was called:

Henry George's book, ___________, advocated a single tax on property as a means of redistributing the national wealth.

The bombing at ______________ proved to be a serious setback to organizing efforts after 1886.

Jacob Riis's investigative reports on conditions in New York City ghettos resulted in the book:

As the reservation system faltered in the late 19th century, reformers looked to the policy of ___________ to remedy conditions in the Indian nations and ease Native Americans into American society.

In 1889, Chicago reformer Jane Addams established ____________ as a way to reach out to poor immigrant neighborhoods.

Frances Willard founded the _____________, an example of the late 19th century missionary impulse towards social purity.

Popular journals such as __________ reported on social policy and reform issues.

As the reservation system faltered in the late 19^th century, reformers looked to the policy of ___________ to remedy conditions in the Indian nations and ease Native Americans into American society.

Frances Willard founded the _____________, an example of the late 19^th century missionary impulse towards social purity.