Civil War/Reconstruction/Go West EOC Review

This list describes selected features of the Homestead Act of 1862.

• Adult citizens were granted 160 acres of public land.

• People claiming the land were required to improve the land by building a home and farming the land.

• After 5 years on the land, the person claiming the land paid a registration fee and officially owned the land.

What was one effect of the act described in this list?

• The population of settlers in the American West increased

• The debt of the federal government increased.

• The number of conflicts with American Indians decreased

• The demand for natural resources decreased.

Which event led to the action shown in this illustration?

• The revival of nativist policies

• The ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment

• The Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson

• The rise of Social Darwinism

These photographs show a group of Chiricahua Apache students on their first day of school at the Carlisle Indian School and the same students four months later, 1886–1887.

These photographs provide evidence that one goal of the Carlisle Indian School was to —

• restore U.S. citizenship to American Indians

• assimilate American Indians into U.S. culture

• encourage the study of American Indian religious practices

• protect American Indians from nativist policies

Which statement describes how the Transcontinental Railroad affected the United States during the late 1800s?

• The railroad prompted Congress to buy land and create national parks in the East

• The railroad contributed to population growth and increased sharecropping in the East

• The railroad caused a rapid decline in agriculture and mining in the West

• The railroad contributed to the rapid settlement and growth of towns in the West

Which action opposed the civil rights advances that the Reconstruction amendments had promised?

• The conservation movement

• The passage of antitrust legislation

• The passage of Black Codes and Jim Crow laws

• The temperance movement

The Kansas-Nebraska Act concerned which issue?

• the right of northerners to own slaves

• the sale of federal lands to slave owners

• the expansion of slavery into new territories

• the return of slaves who had escaped from the South

What was the main accomplishment of the Freedmen's Bureau?

• providing aid and education to emancipated slaves

• helped confederate states get readmitted into the Union

• Securing protections for African American voting rights

• preventing violence against African Americans in the South

The passage below is from the 14th Amendment:

No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the U.S.; 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 laws.

This amendment was passed by Congress in response to which of the following?

• the rise of violence against emancipated slaves

• the passage of Black Codes throughout South

• the emergence of white resistance to the Civil Rights movement

• the attempts of Democrats to limit the voting rights of African Americans

How did President Andrew Johnson's views on Reconstruction differ from those of the Radical Republicans in Congress?

• President Johnson refused to pardon Confederate leaders, while Congress wanted to treat them leniently

• President Johnson was shocked at the Southern Black Codes, while Congressional leaders saw them as necessary to restore order

• President Johnson accepted Southern Black Codes, while Congress overturned them with a Civil Rights bill prohibiting racial discrimination

• President Johnson thought the readmission of states into the Union should be decided by Congress, while Congressional leaders saw it as his responsibility

What was the catalyst for the secession of the first seven Southern states in 1861?

• passage of a higher protective tariff

• issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation

• the election of Lincoln as President

• the shipment of Union supplies to Fort Sumter