Unit 1 Review

The Plessy v. Ferguson case had what impact on the U.S.?

• It legalized Jim Crow (Segregation) Laws throughout the U.S.

• It made Jim Crow (Segregation) Laws illegal throughout the U.S.

• It created more equality

Why did the government want the Transcontinental Railroad built?

• To move prisoners west

• To encourage westward expansion

• To defeat Mexico

• To make peace with the Native Americans

The Homestead Act required people to farm on land for _____ years to get _______ acres for free.

• 10 years, 50 acres

• 1 year, 80 acres

• 7 years, 180 acres

• 5 years, 160 acres

Assimilation means...

• to become a part of a different culture

• to forget your name

• to leave your home

• to ignore another culture

12) Which of the following would have most likely been a quote and mission statement from Richard Henry Pratt and his Carlisle Indian school in PA? 

• ¨“The only good Indian is a dead Indian” 
• ¨“Kill the Indian to Save the Man” 
• ¨“The American settler culture is superior to the heathen native way” 
• ¨“The buffalo are dead and gone, you must change” 

The Magna Carta, the English Civil War, and the English Bill of Rights all -

• created the colonies in the Americas

• created laws for the equality among all men

• created limits on the power of the English monarch

• created laws protecting all religions in England

The framers of the United States Constitution included the concepts of federalism, checks and balances, and separation of powers in the document because they-

• feared a national government with unlimited power

• hoped to expand the democratic process

• wanted to increase the powers of the states

• favored the rich over the poor

What is the division of government powers into different branches so that no one branch has too much power?

• Popular Sovereignty

• Divine Right

• Separation of Powers

• Republic

All of the following are branch of the U.S. Government EXCEPT--

• Executive

• Bureaucratic

• Judicial

• Legislative

Which document was the United State's first attempt at establishing a government system?

• the Constitution

• the Bill of Rights

• the Magna Carta

• the Articles of Confederation