Midterm Review Part 1 and 2

What was the MAIN reason the government wanted Native Americans on reservations

• to keep them from starving

• to take their land

• to preserve the remaining buffalo

• to teach them new skills

Which of the following best describes the landscape of the Great Plains

• relatively flat land and covered by prairie grasses

• relatively flat land and covered by dense forest

• mountainous land with many canyons

• mountainous land with little vegetation

How did the Homestead Act impact the settlement of the West?

• Increased westward migration by providing inexpensive land for farming

• Decreased westward migration by providing expensive land for farming

• Increased westward migration by forcing Native Americans onto reservations

• Increased westward migration by providing railroad travel west

What was the impact of the Compromise of 1877?

• Democrat control, Jim Crow Laws, disenfranchisement

• Republican Control, Equality, 15th Amendment

• Democrat Control, Equality, Segregation

• Republican Control, disenfranchisement, Carpetbaggers

Disenfranchisement

• Process of having your rights taken away

• Process of having more rights given to you

• Process of immigrating to the United States

• 15th Amendment

Impact of Plessy v. Ferguson

• Legalized suffrage

• Legalized segregation

• Legalized westward expansion

• Legalized reservations

Cause of reservations

• settlers taking native american lands

• native americans losing identity

• death of the buffalo

• small pox

How did the Dawes Act impact Native Americans?

• Forced them to live in Canada

• Forced them to live and farm land

• Forced them to move to big cities

• Provided safety and tribal identity

What is assimilation?

• Process of being disenfranchised

• Process of becoming similar to your surroundings

• Process of moving westward

• End of Reconstruction

Who became President because of the Compromise of 1877?

• Rutherford B Hayes

• Samuel Tilden

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses Grant