Era 6 Quizizz Review

1. What was the purpose of the Homestead Act?

• A. To allow anyone who had never owned land to get land for free.

• B. To encourage westward migration.

• C. To allow any head of household to live on and improve farmland, with the eventual option for home ownership.

• D. Both B & C.

2. What development was most responsible for the settling of western territories?

• A. The cotton gin

• B. The Transcontinental Railroad

• C. The influx of Southern European immigrants for cheap labor

• D. The Chicago Fire, which made people want to move away from large cities

3. What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?

• A. A consequence of nativism, which was an anti-immigrant point of view

• B. A practice where Chinese immigrants would exclude other immigrant groups from their enclaves.

• C. A law that prohibited immigrants from China

• D. Both A & C

4. Which were negative consequences of the rapid growth of the US economy in the early 1900s?

• A. There was a high influx of labor as a result of “New Immigration.” This high supply of immigrants meant that companies were able to underpay workers.

• B. Successful workers’ strikes guaranteed workers good wages.

• C. The influx of cheap labor allowed for poor working conditions.

• D. Both A & C.

5. How did the US treat Native Americans in the late 1800s?

• A. They established reservations to help preserve Native American culture.

• B. The US encouraged assimilation to secure lasting peace between settlers and Indians.

• C. The interests of White settlers would continue to disrupt the government’s attempts at peace negotiations with Native Americans.

6. Which of the following innovations most impacted Native Americans?

• A. Barbed wire

• B. The skyscraper

• C. The rifle

• D. The cotton gin

7. What was the Dawes Act?

• A. A set of taxes placed on Native Americans.

• B. A punishment for the rebellions led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.

• C. An 1887 law that distributed reservation land to individual Native American owners.

8. What did Booker T. Washington advocate for in his Atlanta Compromise speech?

• A. To make African Americans fully equal with whites.

• B. To improve the education of African Americans.

• C. To allow all African Americans to enter universities.

• D. To reject immigrant workers and instead hire freed blacks, which was a familiar pool of laborers.

9. Why was Washington’s Atlanta Compromise speech controversial?

• A. His speech was confrontational with the white southern leaders.

• B. The speech implied that African Americans should not focus on civil rights, but should instead learn to accommodate, or accept and deal with, the limitations on blacks that society had put in place.

• C. He called for sharecroppers to move to the north, as an early advocate for the Great Migration.

10. How did W.E.B. DuBois’ ideas differ from Booker T Washington’s?

• A. DuBois thought Washington should tone down his message and be more peaceful with the southern whites.

• B. DuBois was not interested in civil rights, and only wanted to focus on economic issues.

• C. DuBois thought that African Americans should fight for their rights and not compromise with whites.