On which of these positions would Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois agree?
African Americans should pursue education as a means of improving their lives.
African Americans should join a labor union to defend their rights as workers.
African Americans should push for immediate social equality with whites.
African Americans should use force to bring an end to the segregation of public facilities.
Both the Homestead Act (1862) and the government subsidies for the transcontinental railroad were efforts by the federal government to do what?
Provide affordable housing and transportation to freed slaves
Resolve conflicts with the Native Americans
Encourage settlement west of the Mississippi River
Donate land to poor minority groups
Protective tariffs, subsidies for railroads, and open immigration showed that the federal government supported which of the following during the late 1800s?
Organized labor unions
Economic development
Policies of political isolationism
Regulation of unfair business practices
Which of the following was a negative effect of mechanized farming during the late 1800s?
Underproduction leading to inflation
Overproduction leading to falling farm prices
Easier farming techniques
Enabled farmers to produce products more efficiently
Which of the following groups was most impacted by the influx of immigrants during the Gilded Age?
Political machines controlling the major cities.
Organizations advocating civil rights for African Americans