US History - Midterm Review Qs

What was one result of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)?

• Sectional tension increased.

• The slave trade was abolished.

• Northern states were more willing to compromise.

• Southern states immediately seceded from the Union.

Which heading best completes the partial outline below?

I. _________________________________

A. Protective tariffs

B. Railroad subsidies

C. Use of troops to end strikes

• The New South

• Government Support of Big Business

• Technology of the Industrial Revolution

• Use of Collective Bargaining

What was the major reason that African Americans migrated to northern cities during and after World War I?

• A surplus of cotton led to widespread farm foreclosures in the South.

• Discrimination had been eliminated in the North.

• Political opportunities had expanded in the South

• Industrial jobs were available in the North.

The amendment that prohibits federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on his or her race.

• 12th Amendment
• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

What amendment abolished (ended) slavery?

• 12th Amendment
• 13th Amendment
• 14th Amendment
• 15th Amendment

Poll taxes & ____ prevented African Americans from voting.

• literacy tests
• Jim Crow laws
• black codes
• Freedmen's Bureau

Which term was used by Southerners to describe people that moved south to make money by taking advantage of the war-torn economy?

• scalawags
• sharecroppers
• social elite
• carpetbaggers

What was the role of the Freedman’s Bureau during the period of Reconstruction?

• It provided jobs for freed slaves building roads and bridges.

• It captured freed slaves and return them to their former masters.

• It provided education and supplies to the former slaves to help them become successful.

• It forced the former slave owners to pay reparations to the former slaves.

Political Machines promised to protect immigrants' jobs in return for

• military service

• physical security

• votes

• cash payments

The intent of United States immigration laws of the 1920s was to

• encourage cultural diversity

• restore an open-door policy toward immigration

• restrict immigration through the use of quotas

• increase economic opportunities for recent immigrants