2023 Semester Exam Review American History

How was American society affected by the Great Migration?

• There was an increase in organized crime.

• There was greater competition for housing and jobs in northern cities.

• There was an increase in the popularity of music, art, and literature of African Americans.

• It resulted in the reduction of discrimination in the south.

• Cities became integrated as more and more African Americans moved into various ethnic neighborhoods.

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Push Factors

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(b) Pull Factors

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(c) Not a Factor

• segregation in the South (Jim Crow Laws)

• racial descrimination in industrialized areas

• cultural opportunities

• abuse by KKK

• job opportunities in factories

• opportunity to travel overseas

• good reports from family

• increased demand for farm labor

• poverty in south

How did the population shift in the 1800s as a result of industrialization?

• Northerners moved to the Sun Belt (south).

• Farmers (rural residents) moved to cities in search of jobs.

• Working class people moved from urban areas to the suburbs.

• African Americans moved south in search of jobs.

Identify complaints expressed by Anti-Federalists about the Constitution during the ratification process.

• The constitution did not protect the rights of individual citizens well enough.

• The federal government should have all the powers that are "necessary and proper" to carry out its constitutional responsibilities.

• The Constitution prohibited state governments from collecting taxes.

• The Constitution provided the president with too little power to effectively govern.

What was the purpose of the U.S. government's policy toward American Indians in the late 1800s?

• To make American Indians more independent.

• To open communication between European settlers and American Indian Tribes.

• To pressure Native Americans to assimilate to European American culture.

• To make more economic opportunities available to American Indians.

Identify all of the following that were effects of the Dawes Act of 1887.

• More government services were available to American Indians.

• Tribal lands were divided between individual American Indian families.

• Former Indian lands were opened to settlement by Americans moving west.

• It created reservations for American Indians in the Western United States.

What was Manifest Destiny?

• A story told to inspire Chinese railroad workers to migrate to America to build the Transcontinental Railroad

• A guiding idea that suggested it was 'God's Plan' for America to expand westward

• The belief that Native Americans had a right to their traditional cultures and the land they claimed as theirs

• A philosophy that all men should be treated equally under the law

Vairous American laws took land from Native peoples. In addition, confrontations between the U.S. govenrment and Native peoples demonstrated the tensions created by westward expansion. Match the events and the laws below with the appropriate description.

• Dawes Act

• Encouraged settlement of the Great Plains by allowing any American, including white settlers and freed slaves, to get 160 acres of free land in return for planting crops, builidng a house, and living on the land for 5 yrs.

• Battle of Wounded Knee

• U.S. soldiers attempted to arrest Sitting Bull in order to suppress a religous movement among the Native people. Sittling Bull was killed and the resulting conflict caused the deaths of hundreds of Sioux people. Last major conflict with American Indinas in the west.

• Homestead Act

• As settlers moved west, the U.S. government forced American Indians onto reservations. In this instance, the Native Americans refused to go and a fight ensued which resulted in the defeat of U.S. forces by the Sioux tribe.

• Battle of Little Bighorn

• Made tribal ownership of land unlawful and forced Natives to live on individual plots of land. They were promised citizenship in the future.

How did westward expansion affect American Indians?

• American Indians were hired as part of the work crews to search for gold during the various gold rushes.

• American Indians were enslaved as laborers for the new farms white settlers created in the west.

• American Indians were driven off the land because white settlers wanted to own western land and its natural resources.

• American Indians raced against white settlers to be the first to reach the Pacific coast.

Identify the results of urbanization.

• Development of tenement housing

• Increase in crime in the cities

• Decrease in immigration

• Lack of sanitation and insufficient clean water supply leading to the spread of disease

• Assistance to American Indians in assimilating to American culture