The Nadir of American Race Relations was the time racism was at its worst in the United States. Which option could be the reason for this?

The creation of Freedmen's Bureau.

The purpose of the Dawes Act of 1887 was to:

assimilate Native American Indians into mainstream American culture

restore previously taken land to Native American Indian tribes

maintain traditional Native American Indian cultures and values

immediately grant Native Americans full citizenship, due process and voting rights

The Dawes Act of 1887 created a major change in Native American policy/laws, which statement is true about the major change that happened?

Required Native Americans to own private plots instead of sharing on a reservation system

Allowed Native Americans to live anywhere they wanted.

Forced Native Americans to live only in Florida

Allowed Native Americans to live where they are currently living.

Which phrase best completes the diagram?

Push Native Americans to adopt an farming/agricultural lifestyle

Lure Native Americans to migrate to the frontier

Entice Native Americans to move to urban areas

Give Native Americans jobs in the federal bureaucracy

The Homestead Act, the mass killing of buffalo, and the completion of the transcontinental railroad are most closely associated with the

northern migration of African Americans.

The Dawes Act of 1887 created a major change in Native American policy/laws, which statement is true about the major change that happened?

Required Native Americans to own private plots instead of sharing on a reservation system

Allowed Native Americans to live anywhere they wanted.

Forced Native Americans to live only in Florida

Allowed Native Americans to live where they are currently living.

What was created in the U.S. government's first attempt to exercise increased control and oversight over American businesses and industries in the late 1800s? Example being government regulating shipping costs of railroads.

The Interstate Commerce Commission

The Civilian Conservation Corps

The Food and Drug Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration

1. *Use the image and your knowledge of Social Studies to answer the following question: What was the goal of the Union strategy for defeating the South?

Surrounding the Confederate states and cutting them off from help and supplies

Striking quickly at key cities in the South

Getting other nations to ally with the North in defeating the South

Placing their armies like a wall around the northern states

What did the 14th and 15th Amendments, which were passed during Reconstruction, result in?

increased individual rights for African Americans

additional rights for southern segregationists

equal rights for women in the United States

expanded rights for Native Americans on reservations

In the Dred Scott Decision, the Supreme Court ruled that enslaved African Americans

living on free soil were considered free

What was the purpose of the Black Codes?

To restrict rights of freedmen.

William Jennings Bryan's famous Cross of Gold speech is about...

A policy of bimetalism to help farmers with raising crop prices.

The acquisition of colonies to increase employment opportunities.

The creation of a national park system

Higher tariffs to protect American goods from foreign cometition.

The Freedman’s Bureau was a federal agency established to

Aid formerly enslaved African Americans after the Civil War.

Process the petitions of African Americans hoping to become free.

Help formerly enslaved African Americans move to the North.

Bring an end to slavery in the western territories after the Civil War.

How did completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869 encourage settlement of the American West?

The railroad made it easier for ranchers and farmers to ship goods back east.

The railroad led to new discoveries of precious minerals.

The railroad required immense quantities of iron and coal to build.

The railroad frightened Indian tribes, who retreated to reservations.

The quote "Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.” led to the creation of what?

Native American boarding schools were created in order to forget their culture and assimilate Native Americans.

Created the Transcontinental Railroad

Public schools were created to teach Americans the culture of Native Americans.

Assimilate can be described as...

Being absorbed and integrated into a society or culture.

Being isolated from other cultures

Turning empty land into farm land.

Which issue is addressed in the cartoon above?

The excessive power of Big Business

The dangerous conditions of factory labor

The corruption of political machines in American cities

PMA Q1 Quiz

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

This political cartoon represents the idea of what?

Workmen's Comp

Capitalism

Low wages

Collective bargaining

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which statement best completes the graphic organizer?

Farmers organized the Grange movement and the Populist Party.

The government authorized the unlimited coinage of silver to help farmers.

Populists demanded that the government help farmers by raising tariffs.

The government demanded that farmers slaughter livestock to increase prices.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What was the purpose of the Grange movement

to fight the corruption of political machines in the cities

to break rural isolation of farmers and represent their interests

to halt the influx of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe

to agitate for government ownership of railroads, telegraphs and telephones.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What was the main effect of the system of debt peonage/sharecropping that emerged in the South during the late 19th century?

African Americans were unable to afford to work agricultural jobs.

African Americans left the South in large numbers to escape their debts.

African Americans labored in a system that was nearly the same as slavery.

African Americans had to work for low wages to pay off their emancipation costs.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

In what system did a landowner lend materials to a person who would plant crops and then pay back the landowner with a portion of the crops harvested?

Carpetbagging

Sharecropping

Barter Farming

Crop Rotation

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What was an important negative effect of the sharecropping system and debt peonage on African Americans during Reconstruction?

Freedmen achieved social and political equality in the South.

Freedmen played an important role in local and state governments.

Freedmen achieved economic independence from their former masters.

Freedmen often remained in a state of economic dependence on their former masters.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which labor system was basically "unofficial slavery" and kept African Americans in debt?

Sharecropping/debt peonage

Legislative system

role of buffalo soldier

farming

8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The passage below is an excerpt from the 14th Amendment
“ No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

This 14th amendment was proposed by Congress in response to which of the following?

A. The rise of violence against emancipated slaves

B. The passage of Black Codes throughout the South

C. The emergence of white resistance to the civil rights movement

D. The attempts of Democrats to limit the voting rights of African Americans

9.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Following the Civil War, why did many southern states enact Black Codes?

to guarantee equal civil rights for African Americans

to restrict the rights of formerly enslaved persons

to support the creation of the Freedmen's Bureau

to provide free farmland for African Americans

10.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What did the Jim Crow Laws and Black Codes have in common?

both increased rights for African Americans

both limited rights/discriminated against African Americans

both made it easier for African Americans to vote

both increased rights for Native Americans

PMA Q1

50 questions

This political cartoon represents the idea of what?

Which statement best completes the graphic organizer?

What was the purpose of the Grange movement

What was the main effect of the system of debt peonage/sharecropping that emerged in the South during the late 19th century?

In what system did a landowner lend materials to a person who would plant crops and then pay back the landowner with a portion of the crops harvested?

What was an important negative effect of the sharecropping system and debt peonage on African Americans during Reconstruction?

Which labor system was basically "unofficial slavery" and kept African Americans in debt?

Following the Civil War, why did many southern states enact Black Codes?

What did the Jim Crow Laws and Black Codes have in common?

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