SWT1 Review

Much of the construction work on the Transcontinental Railroad that ran eastward from California was completed by immigrants from this country:

• Ireland

• China

• Italy

• Germany

In the late 1800's, the goal of the Federal Government’s policy toward Native Americans was to:

• destroy tribal bonds and thus weaken their traditional cultural values

• grant them full citizenship and due process

• give their tribal groups authority over their own affairs

• increase the land holdings of western tribes

What law broke Native American reservations into individual family farms?

• Dawes General Allotment Act

• the Enforcement Acts

• the Homestead Act

• the Comstock Act

Chinese immigrants were:

• Accepted to the United States

• Preferable to Communists and Socialists

• Kept outside the gate of liberty and not allowed into the US

• Treated exactly like Mexican-Americans

A major feature of the Reconstruction period was that:

• New state governments in the South concentrated on ending corruption and enforcing Reconstruction plans

• The South rapidly developed into the nation’s major industrial center

• A spirit of cooperation existed between the executive and legislative branches

• New legislation and constitutional amendments attempted to provide equal rights and

A major result of the Reconstruction period was that:

• Most African Americans were able to take advantage of education at all colleges and universities

• The former Confederate states were restored to full membership in the Union

• The two-party political system became stronger in the South

• Sectional differences and the idea of States rights disappeared

Based on your knowledge of history, during what period was Black Codes most likely passed?

• Radical Republican Era Reconstruction

• Near the End of Reconstruction

What was the purpose of the laws referred to by a Jim Crow poem?

• To guarantee suffrage for African Americans

• To regulate the policies of Reconstruction

• To provide land for freed slaves after the Civil War

• To enforce segregation and discrimination

What was the most important outcome of the election of Tilden and Hayes?

• The End of Reconstruction

• The Rise of Industrialization

• A new period of Indian Removal

• The decline of Presidential Power

Boarding schools are an example of the policy towards Native Americans known as

• Extinction

• Merging

• Assimilation

• Isolation