WorksheetsStandards 1 2 3 Quiz
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
How did the Homestead Act impact the settlement of the West?
Increased westward migration by providing inexpensive land for farming
Decreased westward migration by providing expensive land for farming
Increased westward migration by forcing Native Americans onto reservations
Increased westward migration by providing railroad travel west
How did the transcontinental railroad impact the settlement of the West?
By connecting the northern and southern states after the Civil War
By connecting the eastern states to the western territories and California
It impacted the west by providing a slow and costly method of travel
It impacted the settlement of the west by closing the frontier
What was the impact of the Compromise of 1877?
Democrat control, Jim Crow Laws, disenfranchisement
Republican Control, Equality, 15th Amendment
Democrat Control, Equality, Segregation
Republican Control, disenfranchisement, Carpetbaggers
Disenfranchisement
Process of having your rights taken away
Process of having more rights given to you
Process of immigrating to the United States
15th Amendment
Impact of the Exodusters
Increased African American migration south
Increased African American migration west
Passage of the 15th Amendment
Passage of the 13th Amendment
Impact of Plessy v. Ferguson
Legalized suffrage
Legalized segregation
Legalized westward expansion
Legalized reservations
Cause of reservations
settlers taking native american lands
native americans losing identity
death of the buffalo
small pox
How did the Dawes Act impact Native Americans?
Forced them to live in Canada
Forced them to live and farm land
Forced them to move to big cities
Provided safety and tribal identity
What is assimilation?
Process of being disenfranchised
Process of becoming similar to your surroundings
Process of moving westward
End of Reconstruction
What was Reconstruction
Rebuilding of the North following the Civil War
Rebuilding of the South following the Civil War
Rebuilding of the West following the Civil War
Rebuilding the South following World War 2
What political group ran Reconstruction?
Republicans
Democrats
Exodusters
Freedmen
Who became President because of the Compromise of 1877?
Rutherford B Hayes
Samuel Tilden
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses Grant
Who was withdrawn from the South because of the Compromise of 1877?
Freedmen
Democrats
Carpetbaggers
Soldiers
Following Reconstruction the Republican party is associated with what?
Big Business and Industrialization
Segregation and agriculture
Westward Expansion and Jim Crow Laws
Assimilation and Disenfranchisement
After the Compromise of 1877 the south is controlled by the _______ party and they quickly pass ___________ laws.
Republican, Suffrage
Democrats, Jim Crow
Republican, Jim Crow
Democrat, Scalawag
Jim Crow Laws did what?
Disenfranchised African Americans and segregate society
Disenfranchised wealthy white planters and segregated society
Forced Republicans to become sharecroppers
Led to an increase in voting activity among African Americans
