American History 1st Semester Practice Final

The Radical Republicans opposed President Lincoln's plan, saying it was too

• harsh on the South.
• easy on the South.
• generous to the freed people.
• difficult to carry out.

The Radical Republicans with the Reconstruction Act of 1867

• closed the south to Republicans
• broke the south up into military districts/punished them
• made scalawags illegal
• gave voting rights to all people, black and white, men and women

In 1870, thanks to the Fifteenth Amendment, southern black men

• voted for the first time.
• took charge of the Senate.
• received free government land.
• produced their own Reconstruction plan.

Which of the following was NOT used by southern states and southern whites to keep African Americans from voting?

• Poll tax
• 15th Amendment
• KKK
• Literacy test

In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court

• declared segregation unconstitutional.
• established the “separate-but-equal” doctrine, upholding segregation.
• ordered public school districts to upgrade schools for African Americans.
• ordered universities to enroll more women and African Americans.

Many agreements between Native Americans and the federal government fell apart because

• Native Americans and settlers had differing concepts of land ownership.
• Native Americans wanted to work as tenant farmers or sharecroppers.
• Many settler objected to the reservation system.
• Most of the treaties were never signed.

What was one key requirement that applicants had to meet to receive land under the Homestead Act?

• They had to live on the land all year long.
• They had to farm the land for five years in a row.
• They had to file a claim with a bank
• They had to wheel portable cabins from plot to plot.

One way the government sought to change Native Americans through the Dawes Act was by

• teaching them to hunt buffalo
• requiring them to farm individual plots (their own land)
• finding them jobs on the railroads
• requiring them to move to growing cities

Which is not a PULL factor for westward expansion?

• free land
• discrimination
• gold mining
• jobs on the railroads

In their platform, the Populists included provisions for

• free silver (the bimetallic standard), a progressive income tax, and an eight-hour day.
• changing to the gold standard and ending any government regulation of business.
• private ownership of communications and transportation systems.
• excluding African Americans from Populist Party membership.