Unit I Review (CPUSH)

Which of the following best describes the Homestead Act?

• The Federal government forces Natives west of the Mississippi River

• The Federal government giving free land to settlers in the West

• The Federal government forcing Natives on reservations

• Lincoln's idea of a good time

What was completed that increased the transportation of goods from the West to the urban areas in the East?

• Telephone lines

• Erie Canal

• Interstate Highway System

• Transcontinental Railroad

What is the name of the area that was set aside for Natives (and forced upon them) to live?

• Boarding schools

• Reservations

• Assimilation

• Dawes land

What is the process where a foreign person takes on the traits, values, and language of the people they are living with?

• Boarding schools

• Reservations

• Assimilation

• Dawes Act

What is the place where Native children would be sent to learn English and the ways of the United States?

• Boarding schools

• Reservations

• Assimilation

• Dawes Act

What is the congressional action that forced Natives to live in family land plots and enforced ideas of property ownership?

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Pendleton Act

• Native Land Act

• Dawes Act

What was NOT an effect of the Compromise of 1877?

• Samuel Tilden became POTUS

• Lynching in the South

• Jim Crow Laws in the South

• Exodusters & Ben Singleton

What was the outcome of Plessy v. Ferguson?

• "separate can never be equal"

• "separate but equal"

• "separate and sealed off"

• "separate and silly"

Who led a group of blacks out of TN to settle in Kansas because he/she never saw equality happening in the South?

• Boss Tweed

• Benjamin "pap" Singleton

• Madam C.J. Walker

• Jane Addams

Who led a political machine (Tammany Hall) that controlled local politics by providing jobs/food/shelter to immigrants in exchange for their vote?

• Boss Tweed

• Thomas Nast

• James A. Garfield

• Jane Addams