CCCHS CFA #1 Review

(US.1) This picture below shows

• A gathering of immigrants at Ellis Island, New York, celebrating their new citizenship

• Celebrating the first refrigerated rail car

• A handshake and agreement between railroad owners and land owners

• The uniting of the Trans-Continental Railroad in Utah

(US.1) The _____________ _________ was signed by President Lincoln and promised 160 acres of public land to settlers willing to travel west and setup homes and farms.

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Pendleton Act

• Plessy v. Ferguson

(US.1) Which is the BEST description of the effect that the Homestead Act had on the American economy in the late 1800s?

• The Act had positive effect on the social status of minorities and immigrants in American society

• The Homestead Act resulted in the near extinction of the western buffalo and had a tremendously negative impact on Native American culture

• The Homestead Act created sectional tension between northern and southern politicians over the issue of slavery’s expansion into new territories

• While the east gradually became more and more urban and industrial, the farmlands of the west became the center of the nation’s agricultural production

(US.1) Which group of people was primarily responsible for constructing the Transcontinental Railroad from California eastward?

• Apache

• Chinese

• Irish

• Sioux

(US.2) Based on this excerpt from the Dawes Severalty Act, United States domestic policy toward Native Americans in the late 1800s made an attempt to

• grant them full citizenship and due process

• increase the land holdings of western tribes

• force Native American Indians to give up their traditional cultures

• give their tribal groups authority over their own governmental affairs

(US.2) Which statement BEST describes American policy towards Native Americans in the late 19^th century?

• Native Americans generally settled where they wanted to

• Most Native Americans fled to Canada for protection from U.S. forces

• Most Native Americans were practically forced to relocate to reservations

• Native Americans pleaded with the government to create reservations for them

(US.2) The objectives of the _________ _______ was to abolish Native tribal and communal land ownership and force Native Indians to assimilation of into mainstream American society.

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Pendleton Act

• Plessy v. Ferguson

(US.3) The Compromise of 1877 helped the Southern Democrats to

• Get their preferred presidential candidate elected to office

• Get northern military troops out of southern states and end the era of Reconstruction.

• Pass a series of laws designed to help former slaves

• A compromise to allow former slaves to work as paid farm workers

(US.3) Plessy v. Ferguson was the Supreme Court case that

• ended slavery in America after the Civil War.

• Former slaves can now vote

• “Separate but Equal” facilities / buildings are now Constitutional

• Ended the era of Reconstruction in the South

(US.3) The Supreme Court decision of Plessy v. Ferguson

• was overturned by the 15^th Amendment

• upheld the principle of separate but equal

• eliminated racial segregation in state universities

• established the constitutionality of affirmative action