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Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 10mins
In this excerpt, President Hayes proposes a change in federal policy toward American Indians. Legislation based on this new policy did which of the following?
Promoted individual land ownership among American Indians
Forced white settlers to leave reservation lands
Ended federal oversight of tribal governments
Granted American Indians the right to attend public schools
The measures in this list are examples of ways southern states weakened the effects of the-
Compromise of 1850
Fifteenth Amendment
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Fred Scott v. Sandford decision
Which of the following best completes this list?
Established schools
Certified applications for political office
Granted small-business loans
Provided funds for farming supplies
These reforms were instituted by-
Governors during colonial era
Reconstruction governments after the Civil War
Patriots during the American Revolution
Revivalists after the Second Great Awakening
One effect of the Dawes Act was that it-
Caused many American Indian tribes to create written constitutions
Provided education to American Indians through locally run schools
Limited the voting rights of American Indians
Harmed the communal structure of American Indian society
Many historians argue that the assassination of President Lincoln changed the course of Reconstruction. Which of the following is usually cited as an aspect of that change?
Radical Republicans took control of Congress
Congress imposed taxes on cotton imports to pay war debts
The Thirteenth Amendment was approved by Congress
Congress repealed legislation regulating railroad construction
After the Civil War, southern states adopted Black Codes to-
Punish plantation owners for the use of slavery
Support Radical Reconstruction objectives in the South
Promote the activities of the Freedmen's Bureau
Limit the impact of the Thirteenth Amendment
Which of these occurred as a result of the Fifteenth Amendment?
African American families divided by slavery were reunited
Newly free men and women moved west to claim land
African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election
Newly free men and women were allowed to apply for U.S. citizenship
Which of these prompted Congress to propose the Fourteenth Amendment?
The popular sovereignty provision in the Kansas-Nebraska Act
The positions taken in the Know-Nothing Party platform
The Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War
The opposition by southern states to the Emancipation Proclamation
What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?
Agricultural workers organized labor unions
Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt
Many agricultural workers moved to cities to start small businesses
Landowners sold property to pay wages to former slaves
Which of the following legislation was responsible for the provisions above?
Morrill Act
Homestead Act
Sherman Antitrust Act
Native American Act
The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution affected the lives of millions of African Americans by-
Providing them with voting rights
Guaranteeing their freedom of speech
Providing them with access to the court system
Guaranteeing their permanent freedom from slavery
The election of Hiram Rhodes Revels in 1870 was significant because he was the first African American to-
Win an election as a member of the Democratic Party
Win a majority of the popular vote in Mississippi
Serve as a member of the U.S. Senate
Run for public office in the South
This list describes conditions found in-
California following the Gold Rush
Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812
Western territories after the U.S.-Mexican War
Southern states at the beginning of Reconstuction
