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A restaurant having a section designated as “White” and “Colored” is an example of ____________ in the south following the Civil War.

• Exodusters

• Jim Crow Laws

• Sharecropping

• Integration

Answer explanation

The correct choice is Jim Crow Laws because it enforced racial segregation in the South, including separate facilities for White and Colored individuals.

The Poll Tax and Literacy test given to black men following the ratification of the 15th Amendment served to ____________ the newly eligible voters.

• segregate

• educate

• disenfranchise

• advocate

Answer explanation

The Poll Tax and Literacy test given to black men following the ratification of the 15th Amendment served to disenfranchise the newly eligible voters.

Following failed attempts to assimilate the Indians, where were Native Americans forced to relocate?

• east

• cities

• reservations

• concentration camps

Answer explanation

Native Americans were forced to relocate to reservations after failed assimilation attempts.

The belief that the US had a right and duty to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific is known as ____________ ____________.

• Manifest Destiny

• Great Expansion

• Oregon Fever

• Monroe Doctrine

Which government grant gave 160 acres of land to pioneers to farm for 5 years?

• New Land Act

• Free Land Act

• Homestead Act

• Welcome Home Act

Answer explanation

The correct choice is the Homestead Act, which granted 160 acres of land to pioneers for farming for 5 years.

Adopting the customs and practices of a dominant culture is called __________. (Ex: Indian children attending schools)

• assimilation

• nativism

• disenfranchisement

• suffrage

Answer explanation

Adopting the customs and practices of a dominant culture is called assimilation, as seen in the example of Indian children attending schools.

Which of the following statements best describes the system of sharecropping that emerged in the Southern United States after the Civil War?

• Sharecroppers were given land and tools by the government and paid no rent.

• Sharecroppers worked on land owned by others and paid rent in the form of a share of their crop production.

• Sharecroppers owned their land and sold their crops at a fixed price set by the government.

• Sharecropping was a system where landowners hired laborers at a fixed wage for their work.

Answer explanation

Sharecroppers worked on land owned by others and paid rent in the form of a share of their crop production.

Homer Plessy, a man of mixed race, purchased a ticket for a "whites-only" railroad car. When he boarded the train and refused to leave the segregated car, he was arrested. What was the primary outcome of the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?

• It declared that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.

• It established the doctrine of "separate but equal," allowing racial segregation as long as facilities were equal.

• It granted women the right to vote in federal elections.

• It ruled that all establishments were to immediately integrate.

Answer explanation

The primary outcome of the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) was that it established the doctrine of 'separate but equal,' allowing racial segregation as long as facilities were equal.

Read the following excerpt from the Dawes Act of 1887: "An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes." Based on this excerpt, which of the following statements best describes the main goal of the Dawes Act?

• To provide land to Native Americans for villages to live on

• To establish national parks on Native American land

• To grant citizenship to Native Americans

• To allocate individual parcels of land to Native Americans in an effort to assimilate them

Answer explanation

To allocate individual parcels of land to Native Americans in an effort to assimilate them

What does the 15th Amendment specifically address?

• The abolition of slavery

• The right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

• The right to free speech and assembly

• The right for women to vote

Answer explanation

The 15th Amendment specifically addresses the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.