US History Mid-Term 2019

Which of the following gave people 160 acres of free land if they agreed to farm it for 5 years among other things?

• Transcontinental Land Access Act

• The Homestead Act

• The Indian Removal Act

How did the Transcontinental Railroad impact the settlement of the West?

• It made it more difficult because the cost of travel was so expensive.

• It made it more difficult because there was only one railroad and the waiting time to get a ride was very long.

• It made it easier because travel times were significantly faster and safer than before

Which of the following was a policy used by the US Government to try and coax the native Americans to move to reservations by giving them land.

• The Homestead Act

• The Indian Removal Act

• The Dawes Act

What was the Compromise of 1877?

• Slaves were counted as 3/5 of a person

• Garfield agreed to remove Union troops from the South in exchange for the South to recognize him as the President of the US.

• The ideas of equal representation and representation by population were adopted by the government.

Which US Supreme Court case established segregation as being legal so long as everything was equal?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. the Board of Education

• Marbury v. Madison

Which of the following people was the leader of the Tammany Hall political machine?

• Thomas Nast

• Thomas Sinclair

• Boss Tweed

What was it called when politicians rewarded their friends with jobs whether they were qualified or not?

• political paybacks

• family and friends freedoms

• spoils system

Who was the political cartoonist that helped to bring down the Tammany Hall political machine?

• Upton Sinclair

• Thomas Nast

• Sinclair Lewis

Which of the following people invented a new process to make steel, making it much cheaper to manufacture?

• Andrew Carnegie

• Henry Bessemer

• Nelson Rockefeller

Which of the following people was a banking mogul that bought established companies and changed internal processes making them more profitable?

• JP Morgan

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison