Quiz on Post-Civil War America and Native American Experience

What were the Black Codes?

• Laws to provide land to freed slaves

• Laws to integrate schools in the South

• Laws to control the freedom and labor of African Americans

• Laws to promote African American voting rights

What was the main purpose of the Black Codes?

• To ensure equal employment opportunities

• To keep freed people in a system as close to slavery as possible

• To promote African American education

• To provide healthcare to freed slaves

Which of the following was NOT a feature of the Nadir of Race Relations?

• Disenfranchisement of African Americans

• Expansion of African American civil rights

• Increase in racial violence

• Rise of Jim Crow laws

What was the effect of the Sharecropping System?

• It provided economic independence to freed people

• It eliminated racial discrimination in agriculture

• It created a cycle of poverty and economic dependence

• It allowed freed people to own land

What is Debt Peonage?

• A system where workers were paid high wages

• A system that encouraged workers to save money

• A system where workers were trapped in debt to landowners or employers

• A system that provided free education to workers

What was the goal of the Dawes Act?

• To expand Native American land ownership

• To assimilate Native Americans into U.S. culture

• To preserve Native American culture

• To promote Native American languages

What was the effect of the Dawes Act on Native American tribes?

• Preservation of Native American culture

• Increased tribal land ownership

• Strengthened tribal unity

• Loss of tribal land ownership

What was the purpose of Indian Schools?

• To assimilate Native American children into Western culture

• To provide higher education to Native Americans

• To preserve Native American traditions

• To promote Native American languages

What was the effect of the mass killing of buffalo on Plains tribes?

• It led to the expansion of tribal lands

• It destroyed a major source of food, clothing, and culture

• It provided new economic opportunities

• It strengthened their cultural practices

Which event marked the end of major armed resistance by Native Americans?

• Wounded Knee Massacre

• Sand Creek Massacre

• Battle of Little Bighorn

• Dawes Act implementation