1st Semester USH Final

The Black Codes were laws that __________

• all of the above.

• allowed former slaves to find work as farm workers or servants

• forced many former slaves to go back to their old jobs

• made it illegal to be unemployed

Lincoln's announcement that all slaves in the South were free.

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Due process
• Equal Protection
• Reconstruction

The period of rebuilding after the Civil War is called-

• Reconstruction
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Secession
• Equal Protection

Who won the Civil War?

• The Union
• West
• The Confederacy
• South

What is manifest destiny?

• the idea that the United States should expand westward

• the idea that all people should be free from bondage

• the idea that every man should own land

• the idea that immigrants can make a life in the United States

_________ was an 1887 law that distributed reservation land to individual Native American owners.

• Dawes Act

• Great Plains

• California Gold Rush

• allotment

This trail started in Independence, Missouri and ended in Portland, Oregon.

• The Oregon Trail

• Santa Fe Trail

• The Eastward Trail

• The Trail of Tears

What was the effect of President Roosevelt reading The Jungle?

• President Roosevelt asked Congress to pass the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906.
• Meatpacking factories packaged foods and sold them as beef, even though the meat was not really beef
• Meatpacking factories were given quality standards set by the government to follow.

During the _________, laws were passed to improve the health, housing, and quality of life of Americans.    

• Progressive era

• Great Depression

• Roaring Twenties

• Spanish-American War

The muckrakers were the first _________.

• investigative reporters

• novelists

• owners of meatpacking factories

• members of a reform movement