AH2 Unit 1 Quiz

In order to escape racial violence and discrimination in the South, many African Americans moved West. They were called:

• Migrants
• Farmers
• Homesteaders
• Exodusters

"The removal to reservations is what is best for all. These people do not want a life plagued by our expansion west..."  This quote demonstrates that many thought moving Native Americans to reservations was...

• For their own good
• Better than killing them
• A terrible choice to make
• A sad and unfair option

Workers who built the transcontinental railroad were mainly

• homesteaders and cowboys
• Chinese
• Russian and Irish
• Mexican

Which was a successful example of assimilation or "Americanization"?

• The Dawes Act led Native Americans to sell their lands.
• The Homestead Act made federal land available to settlers.
• Congress prohibited the immigration of Chinese workers.
• The children of Native Americans learn English in public schools.

Which law took land from Indian tribes, divided it up, and promoted assimilation?

• Homestead Act
• Morril Act
• Dawes Act
• Reconstruction Act

in 1882, the Government passed this legislation that restricted immigration for 10 years from a certain group into the United States.

• Nativist Act
• Mexican Reparition Act
• Dawes Act
• Chinese Exclusion Act

Under this policy in 1887, the Government gave Native Americans land in order to farm land, just like European farmers. 

• Dawes Act
• Ghost Dance
• Trail of Tears
• Laws Act

Why did the policy of treating the Great Plains as a huge reservation change?

• White settlers wanted the land on the Plains

• NativeAmericans refused to remain on the Plains

• Native American population decreased and needed less land

• The Plains failed to meet the needs of the Native American peoples

Former slaves from the South who settled on the Great Plains

• Nacirema

• Exodusters

• Populists

• Scalawags

The Dawes Act was designed to benefit

• Native Americans

• white settlers

• both Native Americans & white settlers

• neither