What was the most significant economic impact of the transcontinental railroads during the late 1800s?

• eliminating overseas trade with Europe

• expanding interstate commerce nationwide

• decreasing the influence of big business

• rapid rebuilding of the South after the Civil War

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, prejudice against “new” immigrants increased mainly because these immigrants

• came from cultural backgrounds very different from that of the majority of Americans

• tried to replace American democracy with their own forms of government

• formed their own labor unions in order to receive higher wages

• had job skills superior to those of most American workers

During the 1840s, Americans used the idea of Manifest Destiny to justify the

• expansion of women’s rights

• acquiring of new territories

• beginning of free public education

• repeal of the Missouri Compromise

Antitrust laws such as the Sherman Antitrust Act were passed by Congress in an effort to

• regulate the power of big business

• limit low-priced imported goods

• encourage more immigration

• provide safer consumer products

The buffalo was the primary source of food, shelter, clothing, and tools for Native American Indians of the

• Southeast

• Pacific Coast

• Eastern woodlands

• Great Plains

The situation shown in the picture demonstrates the operation of the

• Emancipation Proclamation

• poll tax

• slave codes

• Jim Crow Laws

Which term best describes the practice shown in this picture?

• Populism

• Socialism

• Integration

• Segregation

The 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were added to the Constitution during the Reconstruction period to

• bring an end to the Civil War

• limit the powers of the president

• improve the operation of the electoral college

• grant legal rights to African Americans

During the Reconstruction Era, one reason for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan was to

• prevent formerly enslaved persons from exercising their rights

• encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe

• support the South during the Civil War

• eliminate sharecropping in the Southern States

“. . . nor shall any state . . . deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

“The right . . . to vote shall not be denied . . . on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.”

These amendments were passed to protect the constitutional rights of

• Women

• Native Americans

• African Americans

• Children