STAAR Review #2

The era after the Civil War is called ________________________.

• Colonization
• Independence
• Westward Expansion
• Reconstruction
  
  

First black citizen to be elected to the US Senate (1870 - 1871) 

• Fredrick Douglas
• Hiram Rhodes Revels
  
• Harriet Tubman
  
• Crispus Attucks

What impact did this innovation have on daily life?

• It increased the regional differences among various groups of people across the country.

• It became a major method of long-distance communication for many years.

• It allowed people to sign legal documents from across the country.

• It was the government’s only method to negotiate with foreign leaders

It was the government’s only method to negotiate with foreign leaders

• founding of trade schools in some colonies

• development of different economies in the two regions

• establishment of import taxes in some colonies

• pattern of religious differences in the two regions

How did southern states respond to the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment?

• By creating a segregated public education system

• By shutting down all remaining offices of Freedmen’s Bureau

• By imposing requirements designed to deny African Americans the right to vote

• By forcing African Americans to work as tenant farmers and sharecroppers

Which outcome best completes this diagram?

• American Revolution

• Popular Sovereignty

• Manifest Destiny

• Civil War

Which of the following best completes this excerpt?

• equal pay

• own property

• a public education

• vote

Which chart correctly identifies reasons for and against ratification of the proposed U.S. Constitution?

• F

• G

• H

• J

Which of these describes the primary reason for French colonization?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

The economic growth demonstrated by this recruitment letter was primarily a result of —

• the passage of strict federal labor laws

• the abolition of the slave trade

• the expansion of the cottage industry system

• the new production methods of industrialization