AMSCO Topic 6.2-6.7 Quiz Version A

What did the Homestead Act do?

• It provided 160 acres of land free to any family that settled on it for a period of five years.

• It promised a free public education to any children living in the Great Plains.

• It provided farming equipment for anyone willing to travel west to settle the Great Plains.

• It promised housing to any pioneer who ventured west of the Mississippi.

This landmark case held up the right of a state to regulate businesses of a public nature, such as railroads.

• Dawes v. Wisconsin

• Munn v. Illinois

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• McCoy v. Indiana

He published an essay titled “The significance of the Frontier in American History” where it outlined the evolutionary process of building civilization.

• John Muir

• Frederick Jackson Turner

• Oliver Kelley

• Comstock Lode

This divided the tribal lands into plots of land so that American Indians could become “civilized” and law abiding citizens (forced assimilation).

• Indian Reorganization Act

• Dawes Severalty Act

• Homestead Act

• Indian Appropriation Act

In a landmark case in 1896, the Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” was to be upheld, ruling that segregation did NOT violate the 14th Amendment.

• Brown vs. the Board of Education

• Jim Crow vs. Louisiana

• Munn vs. Alabama

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

This civil rights leader wanted African Americans to focus on working hard at their vocational jobs and not challenge segregation and discrimination.

• Booker T Washington

• WEB DuBois

• George Washington Carver

• Ida B Wells

This businessman used vertical integration to build a steel empire using the Bessemer Process.

• John D Rockefeller

• Henry Bessemer

• Andrew Carnegie

• Adam Smith

The Standard Oil company bought out their competition and controlled more than 90 percent of the oil refinery business in the United States. This company was created by

• Edwin Drake

• J Piermont Morgan

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D Rockefeller

This labor leader led the Pullman Strike in Chicago, and after his arrest, came to the conclusion that more radical solutions were needed in the US and founded the American Socialist party in 1900.

• Henry Clay Frick

• R.H. Macy

• Eugene V. Debs

• Samuel Gompers

This leader campaigned against lynching and the Jim Crow laws.

• Booker T. Washington

• WEB DuBois

• Ida B. Wells

• George Washington Carver