Chapter 8 Reconstruction and the End of Western Settlement

After the Civil War, what was organized to provide food for freed slaves and any poor Southern family for one year?

• Compromise of 1877

• Homestead Act

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• Freedmen's Bureau

Match each person.

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

• Inventor of the telegraph

• Booker T. Washington

• The first former enslaved Black American who serviced in Congress

• Samuel Morse

• Founded Tuskegee Institute

• Joseph Rainey

• America's first black Senator

• Chief Crazy Horse

• Led the Sioux nation in the Battle of Little Bighorn

What name was given to a person who farmed for a landowner to receive part of the crop's profit?

• scalawag

• sharecropper

• carpetbagger

• farmer

During cattle drives, cattle were rounded up and herded to the nearest what?

• Ranch

• Pasture

• Cow Town

What area was called the Breadbasket of America?

• Oklahoma Territory

• Southwest

• Promontory Summit, Utah

• Great Plains

The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution declared that no man could be kept from (a)   because of his race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

• voting

• driving

• owning property

In Southern states, what were the laws called that only Black Americans had to obey during segregation?

• Black codes
• Segregation codes

• Discrimination Codes

What was created to ensure the fair treatment of freedmen?

• Department of Justice

• Indian Reorganization Act

• Freedmen's Bureau
• Civil Rights Act

What was the first national park in America?

• Great Smoky Mountains National Park
• Yellowstone National Park
• Yosemite National Park
• Grand Canyon National Park

What is the name of the route Texas cattlemen used to move their cattle toward the cow town of Abilene, Kansas?

• Santa Fe Trail
• Oregon Trail
• Chisholm Trail
• Pony Express Trail