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Why do the three amendments in the second picture appear damaged?

• African Americans were enslaved again.

• African Americans were denied civil rights

• African Americans voted for the KKK

• African Americans controlled statehouses in the South

During Reconstruction, why was the term "carpetbaggers considered an insult?

• Southerns thought the carpetbaggers only wanted to make a quick profit.

• Southerners thought that the carpetbaggers would not honor their social traditions.

• Southerners thought that the carpetbaggers did not have the skills to help them.

• Southerners thought that the carpetbaggers wanted to reestablish the plantation economy.

What encouraged many people to settle on the Great Plains after the Civil War?

• mild summers and winters

• free homesteads for farmers

• flat land for railroad construction

• natural resources to build industries

Why were many buffalo herds in the West destroyed?

• People in cities needed buffalo meat.

• People in towns wanted buffalo hide.

• The buffalo attacked new settlements.

• The buffalo were a problem for the railroads.

Ranchers on the open range were most likely to get into a conflict with which group?

• railroad operators

• buffalo traders

• farmers

• miners

How did the events in the diagram impact Native Americans on the Great Plains?

• Native Americans became large-scale cattle ranchers

• Native Americans began using the railroads to transport buffalo hides.

• Native Americans could no longer survive using their traditional ways.

How did Samuel F. B. Morse's invention contribute to communication in the US?

• It enabled radar signals to be carried along a chain of towers.

• It created a unified national system of canals and railroad lines.

• It increased the speed of cross-country mail delivery by pony express.

• It enabled long-distance transmission of information and business orders.

Which additional factor led tot he result in the diagram?

• Millions of African Americans migrated to the North.

• Immigrants began to come to the South in great numbers.

• A Supreme Court decision approved "separate but equal

• The Fourteenth Amendment was added to the Constitution.

What was considered legal as a result of the Plessy v Ferguson decision?

• separate facilities for African Americans

• special protection for African Americans

• special requirements for African Americans

• separate governments for African Americans

What is the main Reagan that many working-class families disliked the situation shown in the cartoon?

• They wanted to limit government power

• They needed their children to earn money

• They wanted to educate their own children

• They felt that adults needed education more