Midterm Performance Matters

Which of the following is NOT true regarding the Dawes Act?

• It was an attempt to Americanize (assimilate) the natives

• It tried to give the Natives a desire to farm

• It was meant to break up communal ties within the tribe

• It was established to increase the size of the Native reservations

What court case upset Northern abolitionists by claiming slaves were not citizens of the United States?

• Marbury v. Madison

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Plessy v.Ferguson

According to the image, what strategy was successfully employed by the Union to help win the war?

• a naval blockade

• opening of the Mississippi River

• use of former slaves in fighting the confederacy

• total destruction of the South with Sherman's March

What was the impact of the Dawes Act on the Native American experience?

• The act forced Native American tribes to move onto government reservations

• The act led to armed conflict between settlers and Native American warriors

• The act helped to preserve unique Native American traditions

• The act enabled Native Americans to sell most of their land

Which choice is described by the events listed:

• California was admitted into the Union
• Other lands obtained from the Mexican-American war were determined by popular sovereignty
• Fugitive slave laws were strengthened

• Dred-Scott Decision

• Missouri Compromise 1820

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

Kansas-Nebraska Act gave the people of these territories the right to vote on slavery. What piece of legislation did it overturn?

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Henry Clay Treaty

• Lincoln Agreement

Which choice is described by the following list?

• Encouraged settlers to move west
• Offered free land for those willing to farm it

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Reservation System

Northern politicians who strongly opposed Presidential Reconstruction and felt the South should be punished for their role in the Civil War were called _____________________.

• Radical Republicans

• Carpet Baggers

• Yankees

• Sympathizers

Southern state governments restricted the rights of former slaves by-

• Passing black codes.

• Holding separate constitutional conventions.

• Refusing to pay war debts.

• Refusing to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment.

Which is the BEST description of the southern economy during Reconstruction?

• The southern economy was stabilized because of trade relationships with Great Britain and France.

• The southern economy was still based on agriculture and cotton, but now depended on sharecropping rather than slave labor

• The southern economy was transformed from being based on agriculture to being completely dependent on industry and manufacturing.

• The southern economy was completely restored by 1866 and was actually more productive and profitable than the pre- Civil War economy.