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WorksheetsAMSCO Ch 17: Last West & New South, 1865-1900
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 19mins
The Dawes Act of 1887 did all the following EXCEPT
forced Native Americans to become landowners and farmers
called for Native American children to attend "boarding schools"
promoted the idea of assimilation for Native Americans
granted Native Americans opportunities to attend college
The last Native American to allude the U S military and keep the independence of his tribe the Apache was:
Chief Joseph
Sitting Bull
Geronimo
Crazy Horse
Frederick Jackson Turner was a University of Wisconsin professor who wrote about the importance of U S Westward Expansion. What was the title of his famous book:
The Significance of the Frontier in American History
The Final Frontier
The Final Countdown
The Significance of Manifest Destiny in U S History
The travesty of U S government policy toward's Native Americans is portrayed in the book, Century of Dishonor. The book 's author was:
Helen Hunt Jackson
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Susan B Anthony
Rachel Carson
All of the following are true about the Cowboy Culture of the mid/late 1800's EXCEPT:
the majority of cowboys were African Americans or Mexicans
their life style was tedious, lonesome and challenging work
they spent most of their time involved in round-ups and long-drives
the majority of cowboys would become national heroes in U. S. society
The Homesteaders of the mid/late 1800's are associated with all the following EXCEPT:
people who faced tremendous obstacles but who overcame many of those challenges by adapting to the environment
sod-homes made from what mud and grass
frequent attacks by Native Americans in the areas they moved into
ability to use windmills to drill deep down into the soil to find a water source
W. E. B. DuBois was the first African American to earn a doctorate degree from Harvard. He would go on to be a strong advocate for:
African Americans to go on to college and earn their degree
immediate end to racial inequality and discrimination
the election of African Americans into Congress and as President of the United States
for a separate area of the United States for African Americans to live
Booker T Washington advocated for African Americans to improve their situation gradually through:
protesting their situation using the tactics of sit-ins and marches
improving their quality of life through education
seeking out people of Congress to get laws passed ending segregation
calling for a 2nd Civil War to insure equality in all southern states
Economic progress was evident in the "New South" following Reconstruction. Evidence included all the following EXCEPT:
Birmingham, AL, developed into one of the nation's leading steel producers
Memphis, TN, prospered as a center for the South's growing lumber industry
Richmond, VA, became the capital of the nation's tobacco industry
Chicago, IL, became the home of the South's banking industry
The African American scientist who helped southern farmers diversify their farming to include such crops as peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans was:
Booker T. Washington
W. E. B. DuBois
George Washington Carver
Jimmy Carter
Wholesale disfranchisement of black voters occurred in the "New South." Examples of voting limitations include all the following EXCEPT:
literacy tests
poll taxes
grandfather clauses
physical fitness tests
The anti-lynching crusade was led by an African American women who risked her life to advocate for anti-lynching laws. Who was the ant-lynching crusader who published a black newspaper, Memphis Free Speech:
Ida B. Wells
Sojourner Truth
Michelle Obama
Margaret Sanger
Farmers during the time after Reconstruction felt victimized by the impersonal forces of the larger national economy. Farmers suffered from all the following EXCEPT:
Railroad companies would overcharge farmers for short hauls
Retailers (or "middlemen") would take a cut of the profit away from the farmers
Farmers had to pay high prices charged by industrial corporations
Imports from Central and South America undercut the U. S. crops
The United States Supreme Court upheld the right of a state to regulate businesses of a public nature, such as railroads with its decision in which of the following court cases:
Munn v. Illinois (1877)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Walker v. Floyd (1879)
Gators v. Links (2019)
