EOC Review - US History

The most direct effect of poll taxes and literacy tests on African Americans was to:

• prevent them from voting

• limit their access to public facilities

• block their educational opportunities

• deny them economic advancement

In the 1850s, the phrase "Bleeding Kansas" was used to describe clashes between

• proslavery and antislavery groups

• Spanish landowners and new American settler

• Chinese and Irish railroad workers

• Native American Indians and white settlers

The Homestead Act, the mass killing of buffalo, and the completion of the transcontinental railroad are most closely associated with the

• rise of organized labor

• building of the Erie Canal

• northern migration of African Americans

• decline of the Plains Indians

Many Southern states tried to limit the effects of Radical Reconstruction by

• adopting federal laws mandating segregation

• enacting Jim Crow laws

• abolishing the Southern sharecropping system

• securing passage of new amendments to the US Constitution

On March 3, 1845, Florida joined the Union as a slave state, while Iowa became a free state. This entrance into the Union as a pair was required under what document?

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Adams-Onis Treaty

• Fillmore Agreement

Until the early 20th century, few restrictions on immigration to the US existed primarily because

• industry needed an increasing supply of labor

• immigration totals had always been relatively low

• labor unions had always favored unrestricted immigration

• the Supreme Court had ruled that Congress could not restrict immigration

In the late 1800s, how did railroad monopolies create economic hardships for farmers?

• by claiming productive land for business leaders to develop

• by charging high prices to ship agricultural goods to market

• by separating farmers from profitable markets in western cities

• by isolating farmers from technological developments in eastern cities

In 1862, the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway ACt were passed primarily to

• achieve Northern victory in the Civil War

• develop the Midwest and western parts of the country

• improve the lives of freed slaves

• expand overseas markets to Asia and Europe

Which technologies helped settlers establish farms on the Great Plains?

• repeating rifle, wooden sluices, electric light bulb

• sod houses, sheep shearers, wood carders

• telegraph, railroad, creation of Yellowstone National Park

• steel plow, windmill, barbed wire, reaper

During the early 1800s, which factor contributed the most to the start of the Industrial Revolution in the United States?

• a restriction on European immigration

• the end of the slave labor system

• an abundance of natural resources

• the availability of electricity