Unit 1-5 Review 2023-24

The Homestead Act attempted to promote development of western lands by

• creating a system of dams for crop migration

• removing all restrictions on immigration

• placing Native Americans on reservations

• providing inexpensive land to settlers to farm

What was the main purpose of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• To reduce the number of Americans moving westward

• To help with transportation and communication across the United States

• To make Native Americans move off their land.

• To give give jobs to new immigrants.

Disenfranchisement

• Process of having your rights taken away

• Process of having more rights given to you

• Process of immigrating to the United States

• 15th Amendment

Impact of the Exodusters

• Increased African American migration to the south

• Increased African American migration to the midwest

• Passage of the 15th Amendment

• Passage of the 13th Amendment

Impact of Plessy v. Ferguson

• Legalized suffrage

• Legalized segregation

• Legalized westward expansion

• Legalized reservations

How did the Dawes Act impact Native Americans?

• Forced them to live in Canada

• Forced them to assimilate and lose their tribal identity

• Forced them to move to big cities

• Provided safety and tribal identity

What is assimilation?

• Process of being disenfranchised

• Process of becoming similar to your surroundings

• Process of moving westward

• End of Reconstruction

Jim Crow Laws did what?

• Disenfranchised African Americans and segregate society

• Disenfranchised wealthy white planters and segregated society

• Forced Republicans to become sharecroppers

• Led to an increase in voting activity among African Americans

The photographs are of the same student at Carlisle Indian School during the late nineteenth century.

• Immigration

• assimilation

• nullification

• Nativism

The poll tax was a method to ___________ African Americans

• segregate
• disenfranchise
• remove
• support