US History Midterm Review

President Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction offered a general pardon to Southerners who took the oath of loyalty to the U.S and agreed to follow which law?

• Black Codes

• 20th amendment

• The Constitution

• Elections Laws

What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• Created to help former southern states establish a new government

• Created by the President to nullify the constitution

• Created by southern whites to punish African Americans

• Established by Congress to empower African Americans

Black codes were created to:

• Support the Freedmen's Bureau

• Provide farmland for African Americans

• Restrict the rights of formerly enslaved persons.

• Guarantee equal rights.

Which of the following is the best definition of Reconstruction:

• Reorganizing during the civil war.

• Creating peace in the world.

• Moving the Southern states.

• Rebuilding the South after the Civil War

The 13th Amendment effectively did which of the following:

• Allowed everyone the right to vote.

• Abolish slavery

• Created equal protection under the law.

• Provided Southern white freedom

The Homestead Act encouraged people to move West because it did which of the following?

• Offered free land to those wanting to improve upon it.

• Promised protection from Native Americans

• Establish ranching towns for cattle drivers

• Offered land to gold prospectors

Native Americans living on the Great Plains relied on which of the following to meet their many needs?

• Buffalo

• Gold

• Cotton

• Deer

Colonel George Armstrong Custer is best known for which of the following?

• Unsuccessful bid for the Presidency

• Supporting of the rights of Native Americans

• Disastrous loss in Battle of the Little Big Horn

• Defeat of the Sioux and Cheyenne in the Indian Wars

One of the primary purposes of the Dawes Act was to:

• Encourage the Native American population to increase

• Restore the tribal ownership of land

• Rebuild the Native American Nations

• Displace the Native American population.

Which of the following was a major motivator for the settlement of the West?

• The Silver Rush

• Manifest Destiny

• Big Stick Policy

• Communism