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New South and Last West

Total questions: 64

Worksheet time: 1hrs 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The court case Plessy vs. Ferguson had what effect?

a)

Ended segregation

b)

Abolished the Black Codes

c)

Outlawed the Jim Crow Laws

d)

Established the "separate but equal" doctrine supporting segregation

2.

Which of the following statements regarding race relations in the last years of the 19th century is most accurate?

a)

Legal and social discrimination declined.

b)

Legal discrimination, but not social discrimination, against blacks

increased.

c)

Social discrimination against blacks increased, but not legal

discrimination.

d)

Economic, legal, and social discrimination against blacks increased.

3.

"Separate but Equal "was the decision for which supreme court case?

a)

Plessy v Jim Crow

b)

Homer v Jim Crow

c)

Plessy v Ferguson

d)

Brown V Board of of Education

4.

The attempt to remove the vote is called?

a)

voter fraud

b)

disfranchisement

c)

suffrage

d)

none of the above

5.

A farmer who borrows seeds, equipment and makes other loans from the landlord is best describe as a

a)

tenant farmer

b)

sharecropper

c)

Landlord

6.

The 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years was known as

a)

The Homestead Act

b)

The Pacific Railway Act

c)

The Indian Removal Act

d)

The Morrill Act

7.

The last major land rush took place in 1889 when the federal government opened this territory to homesteaders:

a)

Utah

b)

California

c)

Oklahoma

d)

Montana

8.

African Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the Civil War were known as __________________.

a)

Homesteaders

b)

Sooners

c)

Boomers

d)

Exodusters

9.

Which groups present in the West during the late 19th century often fell victim to the prejudices and discrimination by white settlers.

a)

Chines immigrants

b)

Native Americans

c)

Mexicans and Mexican Americans

d)

all of the above

e)

none of the above

10.
Which amendment abolished slavery?
a)
13th
b)
14th
c)
15th
d)
19th
11.
How did the 14th amendment overrule the Dred Scott decision?
a)
It abolished slavery
b)
It said slaves could vote
c)
It protected African Americans as equal citizens
d)
It said that African Americans could move north
12.
Which law was an Indian policy that broke reservations into individual land plots and harmed the communal structure of Native tribes?
a)
The Morrill Act
b)
The Dawes Act
c)
The Reservation  Reorganization Act
d)
The Homestead Act
13.
The federal government encouraged settlement in westward lands by passing the--
a)
Land-Grab Act
b)
The Dawes Act
c)

The Land Rush Act

d)
Homestead Act
14.

Overall, Reconstruction--

a)

brought changes to the Constitution that were difficult to enforce

b)

was a complete success

c)

was a complete failure

d)

was fully embraced by the South

15.
Which term is the best meaning of "suffrage"?
a)
the right for women to protest
b)
the right to vote in elections
c)
citizenship
d)
freedom
16.
How does the 14th Amendment protect individual rights?
a)
It made slavery illegal
b)
Women could now vote in all elections
c)
It made poll taxes illegal
d)
It defined citizenship so all citizens have the same rights
17.
Which of the following responses best supports the 15th Amendment of the Constitution?
a)
A person cannot be denied the right to vote based on gender.
b)
A person cannot be denied the right to vote based on race.
c)
A person cannot be denied the right to vote based on age.
d)
No one can be denied the right to vote. 
18.
Legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences.
a)
Integration
b)
Conflagration
c)
Confederation
d)
Segregation
19.

Which of the following BEST explains the purpose of the Jim Crow system?

a)

Keep public facilities cleaner

b)

keep African-Americans as second-class citizens

c)

keep the races pure

d)

keep African-Americans from voting

20.

Tests given to African Americans at the voting polls.

a)

Literacy Tests

b)

Voting tests

c)

Government Tests

d)

Poll tests

21.

What areas were racially segregated?

a)

Schools

b)

Housing

c)

Public Transportation

d)

All of these answers

22.

You are eligible to vote if you grandfather was eligible to vote under this clause.

a)

Grandfather clause

b)

Father Clause

c)

Grandmother Clause

d)

Santa Clause

23.
Segregation in the South was mainly based on 
a)
hair color
b)
religion
c)
race (color of the skin)
d)
economic status
24.
What best describes Jim Crow laws?
a)
better opportunities for women
b)
African Americans gaining full civil and political rights
c)
discrimination laws focused on Native Americans
d)
unequal opportunities for African Americans in housing, jobs, and education
25.
Beginning as a social club for former Confederates, this organization terrorized African Americans across the country.
a)
Fraternal Order of Elks
b)
Ku Klux Klan
c)
Freemasons
d)
Illuminati
26.
Southern states tried to prevent African-Americans from voting by making them 
a)

pay a poll tax to vote

b)
volunteer at voting locations for a year
c)
live in the town for 10 years before voting
27.

To make sure poor/uneducated white Southerners WERE voting but black Southerners were NOT, a clause was added to voting rules stating you COULD vote if

a)

your mother voted in the most recent election

b)

your father or grandfather voted prior to 1867

c)

you had owned slaves

d)

your father had fought in the Civil War

28.
Act that gave settlers 160 acres of land to farm for five years
a)
Dawes Act
b)
Homestead Act
c)
Sherman Act
d)
Sedition Act
29.
Which of the following inventions was most instrumental in depleting the buffalo population?
a)
Steel Plow
b)
Mechanical Reaper
c)
Transcontinental Railroad
d)
Hydraulic Pump
30.
Book written by Helen Hunt Jackson that criticized US treatment of Native Americans
a)
Century of Dishonor
b)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
c)
Silent Spring
d)
Impending Crisis of the South
31.
Land set aside for just Native Americans
a)
Reservation
b)
Commune
c)
Nomadic
d)
Preservation
32.
Forcing a group of people to give up their way of life and become more like the majority
a)
Transformation
b)
Transcendentalism
c)
Assimilation
d)
Conservation
33.
Government act that divided reservations into 160-plots to be distributed to Native Americans
a)
Homestead Act
b)
Dawes Act
c)
Sherman Act
d)
Indian Removal Act
34.
Author of the book, A Century of Dishonor
a)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
b)
Rachel Carson
c)
Hinton Rowan Helper
d)
Helen Hunt Jackson
35.
What two immigrant groups built the transcontinental railroad?
a)
Chinese and Scotish
b)
Chinese and Irish
c)
Irish and German
d)
Japanese and Irish
36.
Which was NOT a way that westward movement and settlement impact Native Americans?
a)
Destroyed the buffalo
b)
Placed Native Americans on reservations
c)
Began to assimilate to white culture
d)
Gained more land through treaties
37.

The Dawes Act attempted to help Native Americans by

a)

giving them land for farming

b)

returning them to their native lands

c)

reintroducing the buffalo to native lands

d)

sustaining their previous way of life

38.
Which best describes Manifest Destiny?
a)
Caused everyone to get along better
b)
expansion from the Atlantic to the Pacific
c)
Idea started in the 1600s
d)
The king said that we had to the right to move west
39.
What is the red shaded area?
a)
Indian Territory Reservation
b)
Texas
c)
Mexican Cession
d)
Gadsden Purchase
40.

Which of the following groups tended to vote Republican in the late 1800s?

a)

White southerners

b)

Recent immigrants

c)

Most farmers

d)

African-Americans

41.

What impact did poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses have?

a)

prevented black people from voting

b)
segregated public schools
c)
helped blacks get elected to public office
d)
ended Reconstruction
42.
What term describes how the South has voted nationally since Reconstruction?
a)
Confederacy
b)
Solid South
c)
Republican South
43.

  1. After the Civil War, white Southern landowners

used sharecropping to:

a)

 set up schools to educate formerly enslaved

persons

b)

encourage freedmen to migrate north

c)

maintain a cheap labor supply

d)

sell their plantations to formerly enslaved

persons

44.

What is the best definition for the term” American Frontier”?

a)

A fixed boundary line

b)

The Atlantic or Pacific Coastline

c)

A shifting area where pioneer settlement ended

d)

The dividing line between French and English Settlements

45.

What role did Chinese immigrants play in the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad in the United States during the 1860s?

a)

They served as primary architects of the railroad and designed its main  routes.

b)

They were recruited as laborers and performed some of the most difficult and dangerous work, often under harsh conditions.

c)

They managed the construction sites and were paid higher wages than other workers.

d)

They were largely excluded from railroad work due to immigration restrictions.

46.

The expression “Solid South” refers to

a)

the passage of segregation laws in the South during the late 19th century

b)

the dominance of the Democratic party in southern politics following Reconstruction

c)

the industrialization that took place in the South following Reconstruction

d)

voting restrictions imposed on African Americans in the South during the post-Reconstruction period

47.
Which amendment gave African-Americans the right to vote in 1869?
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
48.
Which amendment said anyone born in United States is a citizen in 1868?
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
49.

Homer Plessy’s act of civil disobedience in 1892 is significant because it:

a)

Led directly to the abolition of the "separate but equal" doctrine

b)

 Highlighted the legal challenges against racial segregation laws

c)

Resulted in immediate desegregation of public transportation

d)

Showed his support for the Jim Crow laws in the southern United States

50.

What court case legalized segregation in the United States?

a)
Plessy v. Ferguson
b)
Marbury v. Madison
c)
Roe v. Wade
d)
Brown v. Board of Education
51.

Black and white college students go to restaurants and refuse to leave until they are served, and in doing so, break the segregation laws.

a)

Boycott

b)

March

c)

Civil Disobidience

d)

Campaign

52.

This pair of photographs suggests that the major purpose of the Carlisle Indian School was to

a)

train future leaders in tribal traditions

b)

prepare children for life on the reservation

c)

teach skills needed for working in factories

d)

promote cultural assimilation

53.

Which of the following did NOT happen to Native American students at Carlisle.

a)

Boys had to have their long hair cut

b)

Students were given new names.

c)

Students could practice their religion.

d)

Students had to wear non-traditional clothing.

54.
What was the primary purpose of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School?
a)
To educate Native American children in their own culture
b)
To assimilate Native American children into Euro-American culture
c)
To provide vocational training for Native Americans
d)
To promote Native American rights
55.
What was a common perception of Native Americans held by white people during the time of the boarding schools?
a)
They were seen as equals
b)
They were viewed as savages needing to be civilized
c)
They were respected for their culture
d)
They were considered wise leaders
56.

Believers in Manifest Destiny thought that ________ had given Americans “permission” to own North America from “Sea to shining Sea”.

a)

The President

b)

The US Constitution

c)

Mrs. Fox-Manno

d)

God

57.

The name of the lady featured in the American Progress painting is _________.

a)

Lady Liberty

b)

Columbia

c)

America

d)

Dolley Madison

58.

According to the painting by John Gast, who benefited from Manifest Destiny?

a)

Native Americans

b)

Enslaved people

c)

American pioneers like miners and farmers

d)

Wildlife such as bison/buffalo & anything with fur

59.

What was a significant consequence of Manifest Destiny for Native American populations?

a)

Increased trade opportunities

b)

Forced relocation to reservations and loss of land

c)

Gaining new territories

d)

Establishment of new alliances

60.

Which of the following best describes the role of the government in promoting Manifest Destiny?

a)

Providing military support for expansion

b)

Encouraging isolationism

c)

Restricting westward movement

d)

Supporting European colonization

61.
What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?
a)
Manifest destiny 
b)
Monroe Doctrine 
c)
Great Awakening 
d)
Louisiana Purchase
62.

What does the wire Colombia is holding in the painting "American Progress" represent?

a)

Education

b)

Technology (telegraph)

c)

Communication

d)

Transportation

63.

In which direction are all the people moving in the painting "American Progress"?

a)

East

b)

North

c)

South

d)

West

64.

What does the wire Colombia is holding in the painting "American Progress" represent?

a)

Education

b)

Technology (telegraph)

c)

Communication

d)

Transportation

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