Reconstruction Act Notes

Multiple Choice

This act forced Native American tribes to give up their ancestral land holdings and move to reservation lands elsewhere. 

• Homestead Act 
• Morrill Act 
• Dawes Act 
• Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868

Multiple Choice

The Dawes Act...

• Allowed the Plains indians to continue their tribal traditions of following the buffalo herds
• divided the plains Indians tribal lands into family plots as a way to encourage assimilation
• provided 160 acres of free land to white settlers
• established the route for the Transcontinental railroad

Multiple Choice

What act gave 160 acres to any family who would live on the land and farm it for 5 years?

• The Homestead Promise
• The Homestead Neighborhood
• The Homestead Act of 1862
• The Homestead farmland

Multiple Select

Passed in 1890, the Second Morrill Act did what?

• extended land-grant funding to African American students

• led to the formation of HBCUs (historically black colleges and universities)

• upheld segregation laws (separate but equal)

• cancelled segregation laws