APUSH Period 6 Review

The Homestead Act assumed that public land should be administered in such a way as to...

• Raise government revenue

• Promote frontier settlement

• Conserve natural resources

• Favor large-scale "bonanza" farms

The national government helped to finance transcontinental railroad construction in the late nineteenth century by providing railroad corporations with...

• Cash grants from new taxes

• Land grants

• Reduced prices for iron and steel

• Aid for construction of railroad stations

The Morrill Act of 1862...

• granted public lands to states to support higher education

• required compulsory school attendance through high school

• established the modern American research university

• mandated racial integration in public schools

The Dawes Severalty Act (1887) did all of the following EXCEPT

•  dissolved many tribes as legal entities

• tried to make rugged individualists of the Indians

• promoted Americanization of Native Americans

•  increased tribal ownership of land

In the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that

• African Americans could be denied the right to vote

• segregation was unconstitutional

• “separate but equal” facilities were legally permissible

•  the 14th Amendment did not apply to African Americans

At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African Americans using all the following EXCEPT

• Literacy requirements

• Poll taxes

• Grandfather clauses

• The use of federal troops

As a leader of the African American community, Booker T. Washington

• helped to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• advocated social equality

• discovered hundreds of uses for the peanut

• promoted black self-help but did not challenge segregation

That a “talented tenth” should lead the race to full social and political equality with whites was the view of...

• Eugene Debs

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Andrew Carnegie

The first great industrial trusts, the ____________ was organized through a principle of “horizontal integration” that ruthlessly incorporated or destroyed competitors

• American Railway Trust

• American Steel Company

• Standard Oil Company

• Unified Meat Industry Trust

Who led Tammany Hall in NYC?

• William "Boss Tweed"

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller