STAAR Practice 3

The Homestead Act attempted to promote development of western lands by

• creating a system of dams for crop migration

• removing all restrictions on immigration

• placing Native Americans on reservations

• providing cheap land to settlers

What was the main purpose of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• To reduce the number of Americans moving westward

• To help with transportation and communication across the United States

• To make Native Americans move off their land.

• To give give jobs to new immigrants.

Disenfranchisement

• Process of having your rights taken away, especially the right to vote

• Process of having more rights given to you

• Process of immigrating to the United States

• 15th Amendment

Impact of the Exodusters

• Increased African American migration south

• Increased African American migration west

• Passage of the 15th Amendment

• Passage of the 13th Amendment

This is a map of the United States.

Which numbered location is where the exodusters migrated to at the end of the 19th century?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Impact of Plessy v. Ferguson

• Legalized suffrage

• Legalized segregation

• Legalized westward expansion

• Legalized reservations

"A new phase in the relationship between the US government and American Indians was incorporated in the Dawes Act of 1887. The act was designed to break up tribal organizations, which many felt kept American Indians from becoming "civilized" and law-abiding citizens. The Dawes Act divided the tribal lands into plots of up to 160 Acres, depending on family size. U.S. citizenship was granted to those who stayed on the land for 25 years and "adopted the habits of civilized life."

Question: Based on this passage what was the primary purpose of the Dawes Act?

• Promote an independent Native American reservation that kept their customs and traditions

• Promote the break up of tribal organizations by providing families with farm land

• Remove all barriers to Native Americans and provide instant U.S. citizenship

• Create Native American schools that promoted tribal languages within the borders of western states such as Kansas.

The photographs are of the same student at Carlisle Indian School during the late nineteenth century.

• Immigration

• assimilation

• nullification

• Nativism

What is assimilation?

• Process of being disenfranchised

• Process of becoming similar to your surroundings

• Process of moving westward

• End of Reconstruction

Jim Crow Laws did what?

• Disenfranchised African Americans and segregated society

• Disenfranchised wealthy white planters and segregated society

• Forced Republicans to become sharecroppers

• Led to an increase in voting activity among African Americans