Midterm 8A

What Supreme Court case ruled "separate but equal" was legal?

• Texas vs. Johnson

• Tinker vs. DesMoines

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

Which amendment granted African American males ( no females) the right to vote?

• 15th

• 19th

• 1st

• 14th

What best describes Jim Crow laws?

• better opportunities for women
• African Americans gaining full civil and political rights
• discrimination laws focused on Native Americans
• unequal opportunities for African Americans in housing, jobs, and education

Beginning as a social club for former Confederates, this organization terrorized African Americans across the country.

• Fraternal Order of Elks
• Ku Klux Klan
• Freemasons
• Illuminati

The economy during Reconstruction continued to rest on agriculture and cotton, but now depended on _____________ rather than slave labor.

• the headright system

• sharecropping

• mercantilism

• exports

Why was the Freedmen’s Bureau established?

• to rebuild churches and homes

• to take away land from the rich and give it to the poor

• provide funds to build plantations

• to help former slaves after the war

What was the primary effect of the Thirteenth Amendment?

• It ensured the right to vote to women.

• It outlawed slavery in every state.

• It declared that Confederate military leaders could not hold office.

• It prohibited unreasonable searches and seizures.

Homestead Act

• Nickname for a miner or other person that took part in the 1849 California Gold Rush

• Law that gave each Native American head of household 160 acres of land in order to promote their assimilation into American society

• Law that allowed any American to claim up to 160 acres on the Great Plains for a $10 filing fee

• Name given to the former slaves who migrated from the South to the West following the Civil War

Dawes Act

• Battle at which the Sioux, led by Sitting Bull, defeated U.S. Army forces in the Great Plains leading to increased efforts to subdue the Plains Indians

• Law that gave each Native American head of household 160 acres of land in order to promote their assimilation into American society

• The last major fight in the Indian Wars, ending any organized resistance to reservation life and assimilation to white American culture

• Law that allowed any American to claim up to 160 acres on the Great Plains for a $10 filing fee

Against their will, Native Americans were relegated to what by 1900:

• the frontier

• the Rocky Moutains

• reservations

• their original homelands