AP US History Period 6 (1865 to 1898): the Gilded Age quiz quiz
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What name is given to the era of AP US History Period 6, from 1865 to 1898?
Which business strategy did John D. Rockefeller use to control the oil industry?
In what year was the first transcontinental railroad completed at Promontory Summit, Utah?
What did the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 do?
Which idea claimed that the wealth of the rich and the poverty of the poor reflected a natural 'survival of the fittest'?
Which union, founded in 1886 under Samuel Gompers, organized skilled workers for practical gains in wages and hours?
Which 1894 strike was broken when the federal government obtained an injunction and sent in troops?
The 'new immigration' of the late nineteenth century came mainly from which region?
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
What did the Populists' 1892 Omaha Platform demand?
Who won the pivotal election of 1896, defeating the free-silver champion William Jennings Bryan?
Which 1896 Supreme Court case endorsed 'separate but equal' and entrenched segregation?