Unit 1 Quiz 1

What is Social Darwinism?

• Prevented unskilled Chinese from immigrating to the U.S.

• Making a less powerful group similar to more powerful group

• Theory which states that humans compete for resources

What is a system of farming in which land was rented in exchange for a share of the crops?

• Disenfranchisement

• Sharecropping

• Exodusters

• Segregation

What term was used to describe African Americans that migrated to the West?

• Exodusters

• Manifest Destiny

• Social Darwinism

• Segregation

All of the following were methods of disenfranchisement used by Southern states except:

• Poll Tax

• Grandfather Clause

• Literacy Tax

• 15th Amendment

What legalized racial segregation in the United States?

• 13th Amendment

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• 14th Amendment

• Poll Tax

How did the U.S. justify expansion?

• Assimilation

• Manifest Destiny

• American Dream

• Nativism

What federal legislation aimed to populate the West by giving government land to U.S. citizens?

• Jim Crow Laws

• Pacific Railroad Act

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

What caused many of the battles with Native Americans / Plains Indians?

• States Rights

• Trying to keep the union together

• Lack of timber

• Discovery of resources

What is assimilation?

• Prevented unskilled Chinese from immigrating to the U.S.

• Making a less powerful group similar to more powerful group

• Theory which states that humans compete for resources

All of the following aimed to assimilate Native Americans except:

• Code of Indian Offenses

• Boarding School Movement

• Dawes Act

• Americanization Movement