2022 VUS Spring Simulation Benchmark Review

What do we call investigative journalist who exposed issues during Industrialization?

• Newspaper guys

• Middle Passages

• Muckrakers

• Open door men

Wanted Reconstruction to be a fast process that did not severely punish the South.

• Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

• Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

• Congressional Reconstruction Plan

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 of the following BEST explains the purpose of the Jim Crow system?

• Keep public facilities cleaner

• keep African-Americans as second-class citizens

• keep the races pure

• keep African-Americans from voting

What areas were racially segregated?

• Schools

• Housing

• Public Transportation

• All of these answers

Where Were Jim Crow Laws Mainly Used?

• Eastern Shore

• South

• North

Which amendment abolished slavery in 1865?

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

Which amendment gave African-Americans the right to vote in 1869?

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

What was the overall purpose of the Homestead Act?

• Encourage people to migrate westward

• To spread people out more

• To keep people in the same place

• To make everyone leave

What was the main purpose of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• To make China more powerful.

• To help with transportation, communication, and to connect the nation.