Unit Four: Post Civil War Era

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; 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 the laws. 

14th Amendment, Section 1, United States Constitution 

1. This amendment was adopted in 1868 primarily to 

• 1. protect the rights of formerly enslaved persons 

• 1. make it easier for immigrants to become citizens 

• 1. extend suffrage to settlers on the Great Plains 

• 1. require the federal government to pay the costs of Reconstruction

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; 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 the laws. 

14th Amendment, Section 1, United States Constitution 

3. Which of the following groups most directly advocated for this amendment?

• 1. Democrats

• 1. Radical Republicans

• 1. Whigs

• Progressives

Which conclusion is most clearly supported by the information in the map? 

• 1. The belief in laissez-faire prevented the federal government from helping railroads. 

• 1. The federal government promoted transcontinental railroad construction. 

• 1. Western railroads generated little profit for their owners. 

• 1. Railroad companies had to buy the land they needed for construction. 

What was a result of the railroad construction shown on the map? 

• 1. A national market developed in the United States. 

• 1. Silver and gold mining opportunities decreased. 

• 1. Railroad companies gave free land to settlers. 

• 1. Steel factories relocated from the Great Lakes region to the Rocky Mountain states

What happened as a result of offers like the one shown on this 1872 poster? 

• 1. More Native American Indians on the Great Plains were forced onto reservations. 

• 1. The government began to restrict the number of acres that people could buy. 

• 1. The Great Plains states became the new center for manufacturing. 

• 1. Missouri and Nebraska became new territories.

The federal government supported the land offer made in this advertisement by 

• 1. encouraging exploration for gold and silver 

• 1. creating a sharecropping system after the Civil War 

• 1. protecting the hunting grounds of Native American Indians 

• giving public land to railroad companies to help finance railroad construction

Which event most likely led to the situation depicted in the advertisement?

• The Dawes Act of 1887

• 1. The passage of the Fourteenth Amendment

• 1. The end of the Mexican-American War

• 1. The Industrial Revolution

Which claim is best supported by the evidence in this document?

• 1. Native Americans voluntarily sold their lands.

• Efforts at assimilation deprived Native Americans of their lands.

• Native American land was highly valuable.

• 1. Wars between Native Americans and the U.S. government had ended by the early twentieth century.