Unit 4 Reconstruction Review

Which event most likely led to the situation depicted in the advertisement?

• The Dawes Act of 1887

• The passage of the Fourteenth Amendment

• The end of the Mexican-American War

• The Industrial Revolution

Which claim is best supported by the evidence in this document?

• Native American land was highly valuable.

• Wars between Native Americans and the U.S. government had ended by the early twentieth century.

• Native Americans voluntarily sold their lands.

• Efforts at assimilation deprived Native Americans of their lands.

Which statement best describes the illustrator’s perspective in this document?

• African Americans should be allowed to vote

• Americans should support statehood for Nevada and Montana

• The government should pass the Equal Rights Amendment

• Women should be allowed to vote

Information in the cartoon most clearly supports the conclusion that by 1914

• most states had approved at least some voting rights for women

• states along the East Coast had granted full voting rights to women

• women could vote only in state elections

• complete national suffrage for women had been achieved

This amendment was adopted in 1868 primarily to

• make it easier for immigrants to become citizens 

• protect the rights of formerly enslaved persons

• require the federal government to pay the costs of Reconstruction

• extend suffrage to settlers on the Great Plains 

Which of the following groups most directly advocated for this amendment?

• Progressives

• Suffragists

• Democrats

• Radical Republicans

Passage of this legislation was mainly a response to

• demands by businesses for additional workers 

• pressure from railroads to limit competition in shipping

• economic and race-based opposition to immigrants in the western United States 

• efforts of the American Federation of Labor to recruit skilled workers 

Which later policy was most similar to this legislation?

• Korematsu v. United States (1944)

• The Immigration Act of 1965

• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

• The Immigration Act of 1924

Which event most likely led to the situation shown in this image?

• Women’s suffrage

• The passage of the 14th Amendment

• Jim Crow laws

• The passage of the 15th Amendment

A historian would find this document most useful for

• Studying the impact of the Black Codes

• Studying the impact of the Freedmen’s Bureau

• Studying African American political participation during Reconstruction

• Studying the impact of President Andrew Johnson’s policies