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Americans were overwhelmed by the rapid pace and scale of change at the close of the nineteenth century.

Which of the following describes the U.S. Army’s actions after the Sioux victory at Little Bighorn?

While some pioneer women found extra employment in nearby settled towns, most worked on the farms on which they lived.

Which of the following describes the Battle of Wounded Knee?

The large numbers of African Americans leaving the South in the early twentieth century was called:

Which of the following best characterizes the experiences of most miners in the West by the 1860s and 1870s?

When they first arrived, immigrants

An average working-class family of six, with two adults and four children, had at best a three-bedroom tenement

After the 1900s, most factories, such as the early textile mills, had to be located near rivers and seaports, both for the transport of goods and the necessary water power.

The new immigrants usually settled in