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WorksheetsChapter 17 - The South and the West Transformed (1865-1900)
Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 1hrs 2mins
The main goal in passing the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was to swindle the Indians out of their remaining lands.
True
False
After the Civil War the two new frontiers that emerged in the United States were the South and the West.
True
False
Many Southerners embraced the "Lost Cause", which was what Southerners called the Civil War because they knew they were going to lose.
True
False
After the Civil War, many southerners dreamed of a freer world of small farms and industry. It was called
The New South.
The South Redeemed.
The Old South.
The Southeast.
The greatest gains in the new industrialized South were seen in the textile industry.
True
False
Which of the following (more than one) are true about the Lost Cause Myth?
The North was honorable and fought for equality
The South was honorable and defended its way of life
The South was the aggressor during the war
The North was the aggressor and the South's cause was noble
Select the ways (more than one) that many Southerners (white and black) made a living while being stuck in poverty
Owning Land
Working in Factories
Tenant Farming
Sharecropping
The court case Plessy vs. Ferguson had what effect?
Ended segregation
Abolished the Black Codes
Outlawed the Jim Crow Laws
Established the "separate but equal" doctrine supporting segregation
Which of the following statements regarding the Southern economy by 1900 is UNTRUE?
The South had greatly industrialized.
The South was the least industrial part of the United States.
The South was the least educated part of the United States.
The South was the least urban part of the United States.
As the 19th century came to a close, land ownership in the South
Rose.
Stagnated.
Rose sharply.
Declined sharply.
In the last quarter of the 19th century, most southern communities lacked banks, so they relied on barter.
True
False
As a result of the crop-lien system in the South, farmers often had_____________________ at the end of the harvest.
Nothing
A bonus
A Wage
A larger debt
The Poll Tax was a tax that had to be paid before a person could vote.
True
False
Which of the following statements regarding race relations in the last years of the 19th century is most accurate?
Legal and social discrimination declined.
Legal discrimination, but not social discrimination, against blacks
increased.
Social discrimination against blacks increased, but not legal
discrimination.
Economic, legal, and social discrimination against blacks increased.
The New West after the Civil War was challenging for a diverse group of settlers.
True
False
New South called for the regions predominately agricultural economy would be diversified.
True
False
The chief accomplishment of the New South was a dramatic expansion of the region's textile industry.
True
False
In 1883 the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 WAS constitutional.
True
False
For the settlers in the New West after the Civil War life was easy for the predominantly poor farming population.
True
False
According to your textbook, the post–Civil War West symbolized economic opportunity and personal freedom.
True
False
Born into slavery, ___________________________ made his famous “Cast Down Your Bucket” speech in Atlanta in 1895.
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Du Bois
Joseph G. McCoy
Cyrus McCormick
__________________________ argued that education should develop bold leaders willing to challenge segregation and discrimination.
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Du Bois
Joseph G. McCoy
Cyrus McCormick
Open Range is the informal system of governing property on the unfenced frontier.
True
False
Exodusters was the name for the ___________________ who migrated West in search of social and economic opportunities post Civil War.
Chinese
Japanese
African Americans
Poor White farmers
The ______________________________ was a series of state constitutional amendments designed to restrict black voting rights in the 1890s.
Mississippi Plan
Louisiana Plan
Georgia Plan
Virginia Plan
The crop-lien system was inefficient, corrupt, and racially unfair.
True
False
Many in the South believed that they had lost the war because the South relied too much on slavery and cotton cultivation.
True
False
The economic situation in the New West can best be described as a boom/bust system.
True
False
More than 200,000 _______________________ arrived in California between 1876 and 1890.
African Americans
Mexicans
Chinese
Europeans
In the _________________, Plains tribal chiefs agreed in 1851 to accept definite tribal borders and allow whites to travel west.
Abilene Treaty
Fort Laramie Treaty
Indian Removal Treaty
Dawes Treaty
_________________ were the bloody conflicts between U.S. soldiers and Native Americans in the West from the 1860s to the 1870s.
The Range wars
The Arapaho battles
The Indian wars
The Medicine Lodge wars
______________________ led the American troops at the infamous Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876.
George A. Custer
Ulysses Grant
Jeb Stuart
Jack Wilson
The Ghost Dance was the spiritual and political movement started by Wovoka to make Indian soldiers bulletproof.
True
False
By the end of the 19th century, Native American resistance to westward expansion had been crushed.
True
False
According to Frederick Jackson Turner, the frontier sparked the Industrial Revolution.
True
False
Frederick Jackson Turner’s frontier thesis only pertained to White men.
True
False
Partly as a result of the publication of ____________________ by Helen Hunt Jackson, U.S. policies regarding the Indians gradually _____________.
A Century of Dishonor, grew worse
A Decade of Dishonor, improved
A Century of Dishonor, improved
A Day of Dishonor, improved
