USHA Final Exam

Southern __________ were destroyed during the Civil War.

• A. farms
• B. railroads
• C. cities
• D. all of the above

A group in Congress called the __________ wanted equality for the former slaves.

• A. Senate
• B. House of Representatives
• C. Radical Republicans
• D. Radical Reconstructionists

The Black Codes were laws that __________.

• A. allowed former slaves to find work as farm workers or servants
• B. forced many former slaves to go back to their old jobs
• C. made it illegal to be unemployed
• D. all of the above

Native American groups, such as the _________, lived on the Great Plains.

• A. Sioux
• B. Cheyenne
• C. Apache
• D. all of the above

By the end of the 1880s, most Native Americans lived _________.

• A. free on the Great Plains
• B. on the East Coast
• C. on reservations
• D. in Canada

American ranchers learned how to care for herds of cattle from _________.

• A. Mexican vaqueros
• B. Spanish explorers
• C. Joseph G. McCoy
• D. meat dealers

Cowboys drove cattle from Texas to railheads in _________.

• A. Oklahoma
• B. Kansas
• C. Missouri
• D. all of the above

When the Civil War began, most of the railroad tracks in the United States were in the _________.

• A. North
• B. South
• C. East
• D. West

Without a standard gauge, _________.

• A. trains from one company did not fit the tracks of another company
• B. passengers and goods had to be unloaded each time they changed lines
• C. trips took much longer than they do now
• D. all of the above

The railroad helped change the United States into a mostly _________ country.

• A. agricultural
• B. industrial
• C. rural
• D. none of the above