9th Grade US History Final Review: Part 1

Poll taxes and grandfather clauses were concepts used to deny what group of people the right to vote?

• rich white men
• women
• blacks
• Native Americans

Which of the following statements about Jim Crow laws is true?

• Jim Crow laws were put in place in new Western States to give women rights
• Jim Crow laws placed restrictions on immigrants coming into the country following the Civil War
• Jim Crow laws limited freedoms of newly freed blacks in the South
• Jim Crow laws were designed to help newly freed blacks gain economic success

Which of the following was NOT part of Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction after the Civil War?

• Ten Percent Plan
• Jim Crow Laws
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Pardon to confederates who swore an oath of loyalty

Why were military districts created in the south during Reconstruction?

• to form new states
• to strenghten the economy of the southern states
• so that the army could enforce reconstruction
• so the army could create new military bases

"The presidental election was resolved, federal troops left the south and the era of reconstruction ended".  This best describes:

• Compromise of 1977
• Ten Percent Plan
• Radical Reconstruction
• Urbanization Act

What was the period following the Civil War called?

• Reconstruction
• Radicalization
• Nativist Era
• Colonization

Which of the following was NOT an effect of railroad construction?

• Provided transportation of goods and people
• Linked existing states with western territories
• Created standard time zones
• All of the above were effects of railroad construction

What was the impact of Plessy v. Ferguson

• It established minimum wage and the 8 hour work day
• It annexed Alaska to the United States 
• It gave women the right to vote in national elections
• It upheld that "separate but equal" racial segregationw as legal

Which group of people believed that economic competition creates waste and is ineffective during the late 1800s?

• Loyalists
• Economists
• Robber Barons
• Capitalists

Which of the following correctly identifies 3 major robber barons

• JP Morgan, Alexander Hamilton and Albert Einstein
• JP Rockefeller, FDR and Andrew Carnegie
• FDR, Alexander Hamilton and John Adams
• JP Morgan, Andrew Carnegie and JD Rockefeller