Ch 13 study Guide A Changing Nation

Under whose rule did the Reconstruction plan put forward by Congress place Southern States?

• Congress

• The United States Military

• President Johnson

• The Northern States

What was the MOST important work of Freedmen's Bureau?

• Helping newly freed people secure their rights

• Giving newly freed people their own land

• Teaching newly freed people to read and write

To whom did the Homestead Act give land?

• Settlers who lived on the land for five years

• Settlers who planted a tree on the land

• Settlers who built a house within one year

What does segregation mean?

• The denying of people's right right to vote

• The keeping of people in separate groups based on race

• The providing of freedom for all people

Why did the United States want Native Americans to live on reservations

• So the United States could tax Native Americans

• So soldiers could hunt all the buffalo

• So immigrants could build big cities

• So settlers could use the land

What did Chief Joseph mean when he said "From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever."

• From this moment, he would never fight U.S. soldiers again

• When the sun showed it was noon, he would stop fighting.

• From this moment, he would never give up.

• When the sun showed it was noon, he would never fight Native American soldiers again.

From which two immigrant groups did thousands of railroad workers come?

• British and German

• Chinese and Irish

• Polish and Russian

• Greek and Italian

How many hours a day did many people work in mills and factories in the late 1800's?

• 7 or 9 hours

• 5 or 7 hours

• 10 or 12 hours

• 14 or 16 hours

Many Native Americans did not want to live on a _________________

• labor union

• reservation

• tenements

The time period when the nation was rebuilding after the Civil War was called

• reonstruction

• boom

• reservation