Why did many Southerners, especially African-Americans, move westward after the Civil War?

• to mine gold

• to escape poverty and prejudice

• to start a new wave of secession

• to expand interstate trade

What law offered free land in the west to anyone who would sign on and cultivate the land for minimum five years?

• Freedman's Act

• Headright Act

• Homestead Act

• Tenant Farming Act

Which African-American leader discouraged demonstration against discrimination and believed the path to equality was through vocational education and economic success?

• Ida B. Wells

• Samuel F.B. Morse

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Booker T. Washington

In Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" did NOT violate the ___.

• 12th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Who was the civil rights leader that led an anti-lynching crusade and called on the federal government to take action, especially against violence in the South?

• Jane Addams

• Martin L. King Jr

• Ida B. Wells-Barnett

• Phyllis Wheatley

Which leader helped establish the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1908?

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Lester Maddox

• Susan B. Anthony

• Frederick Douglass

How did race relations in the South change after Reconstruction?

• Laws were created to increase Black rights.

• Blacks moved back to the South to find family.

• Laws were created to limit Blacks' rights.

• Poll taxes were decreased to ensure fair voting practices.

During the 20th century, African-Americans began to move to Northern cities in search of jobs, escape poverty, and discrimination. This was known as the

• Great Northern Movement

• Long Trek Northward

• Great Assimilation

• Great Migration

Mounting resentment to immigrants led Congress to create two laws that limited immigration into this country. They were the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the

• Immigration Act of 1890

• Irish Restriction Act of 1910

• Labor Law of 1910

• Immigration Restriction Act of 1921

By 1867, there were over 11,000 Chinese workers in the United States. What business did majority of them work for?

• Gold mines in California

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• New England textile mills

• Plantations in the South