Midterm Exam Review 2023

What required money to be paid in order to register to vote and was used to prevent African Americans from voting in the South?

• A literacy test

• Carpetbaggers

• Poll Tax

• Scalawag

Many southern states passed laws after the Compromise of 1877. The laws that legalized the segregation of whites and blacks were called

• Jim Crow Laws

• Black Codes

• Freedman's Bureau

• Reconstruction

After an electoral dispute resulting in the Compromise of 1877, it was agreed that Rutherford B. Hayes would become President if

• he would create a new Freedmen's Bureau

• he ended Reconstruction and removed troops from the south

• he would allow African Africans full rights in the North only

• he created pro-cotton legislation in Congress

What was the outcome of the U.S. Supreme Court decision Plessy vs. Ferguson?

• Segregation was illegal in the U.S.

• African Americans would have to give up the Freedmen's Bureau

• Segregation was legal in the U.S.

• African Americans could have schools, but not equal water fountains.

How was the Dawes Act of 1887 different from the previous federal policy on American Indians?

• • It created reservations for Native Americans to maintain their cultural practices.

• It moved Indian tribes still on the Great Plains to reservations farther west.

• • It provided for the private ownership of lands for Native Americans to farm.

• It encouraged the shooting of buffalo herds from new railroad lines.

How did the activity shown in this picture affect the Plains Indian?

• Buffalo, one of the Plains Indians’ most important resources, became scarce.

• Buffalo, trying to avoid oncoming trains, trampled over the settlements of the Plains Indians.

• Buffalo destroyed the tracks used as trails by the Plains Indians to move from place to place.

• Buffalo were herded away from the Plains Indians by the railroads

The Homestead Act encouraged people to move West because it..

• established ranching towns for cattle drivers.
• offered free land to those willing to farm it.
• offered land to gold prospectors.
• promised protection from Native Americans.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

What type of education did Washington think would assist African Americans the most give the climate of his time?

• liberal arts

• vocational

• international

• foreign language

To those of the white race who look to the incoming of those of foreign birth and strange tongue and habits for the prosperity of the South, were I permitted I would repeat what I say to my own race, “Cast down your bucket where you are.” Cast it down among the eight millions of Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you have tested in days when to have proved treacherous meant the ruin of your firesides.

--Booker T. Washington “Atlanta Compromise Speech” 1895.

In the address above, Washington is advocating for the United States

• hire African-American workers rather than immigrants

• end segregation of schools

• grant full civil rights to African-Americans

• pass strict immigration laws