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1886     After the bombing that resulted in the Haymarket Riots (Haymarket Incident), four _____________ activists were convicted of murder and hanged.  One other was also convicted and sentenced to hang but committed suicide in prison, and several others were sentenced to stiff jail sentences.

1887  The ____________ of 1887 was described as “An Act to provide for the allotment of lands …..to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes.”  It had the aim of assimilating American Indians but resulted in the loss of millions of acres of Indian lands.

Grover Cleveland’s first action to combat the economic disaster of 1893 was to persuade Congress to repeal the _____________.

Find the distance between the pair of points.(-1, 4) and (-5, 7)

During the presidential campaign of 1896, ___________ made famous a speech called “The Cross of Gold,”  condemning the gold standard advocated by the Republican Party.

Find the midpoint of the line segment whose end points are given.(0, 3) and (6, 4)

Determine which two functions are inverses of each other.f(x) = g(x) = 3x – 2 h(x) =

Find the midpoint of the line segment whose end points are given.(8, 9) and (7, 5)

Find the inverse of the one-to-one function.f(x) = (x – 8)3

Begin by graphing the standard quadratic function f(x) = x2 . Then use transformations of this graph to graph the given function.h(x) = -(x – 6)2 + 4