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USII The Push West- The Era of Jim Crow Test

Total questions: 91

Worksheet time: 1hrs 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What year was gold discovered at Sutter's Mill?
a)
1948
b)
1849
c)
1848
d)
1850
2.
The Californian population increased from 400 to 44,000 from 1848 to 1850, what were these new immigrants called?
a)
Crazy
b)
Texians
c)
49ers
d)
Desperate
3.
What were towns called that grew rapidly when gold was discovered nearby? 
a)
Rush towns
b)
Boomtowns
c)
Cities of gold
d)
Ghost towns
4.
Some store owners became rich selling gold prospectors their supplies.
a)
True
b)
False
5.

The law gave settlers the chance to get __________ acres of free land from the federal government

a)

100

b)

120

c)

140

d)

160

6.

The Homestead Act had many goals. Select all that apply.

a)

to encourage settlement of the West

b)

to prepare for the Civil War

c)

to rebuild the economy after the Civil War

d)

to help African Americans and other poor people own land

7.

_______________________ was the first step to claiming land through the Homestead Act.

a)

Pay a small filing fee.

b)

Spend five years "improving" your land by building a house.

c)

Writing a letter to the Bureau of Land Management.

d)

Plant crops on your land.

8.

vast

a)

Very large in size or area.

b)

Having a short life or duration.

c)

Another place.

d)

A pleasing view.

9.

telegraph

a)

A system that sends coded messages on an electrical wire.

b)

Bringing in more money than is spent.

c)

Identify clearly and definitely.

d)

To make into a law.

10.

Long periods of no rain

a)

irrigation

b)

drought

c)

sodbusters

11.

A person who migrated to the West to take advantage of the Homestead Act

a)

migrant

b)

drought

c)

pioneers

12.

Why did the government support homesteading?

a)

to encourage trade with Canada

b)

to encourage settlers to farm the western land

13.

What new technology helped farmers plant their crops more easily?

a)

the steel plow

b)

barbed wire

14.

Which group of people traveled West for the Homestead Act after becoming free?

a)

Civil War soldiers

b)

Immigrant settlers

c)

African American settlers

15.
How did people move west?
a)
Horse and Wagon
b)
Railroad
c)
Steamship
d)
all of the above
16.
Railroads, Windmills, Steel Plows and Barbed Wire can best be described as what?
a)
Native American Technology
b)
Items Used to Settle the Appalachian Mountains
c)
Life on the Great Plains
d)
Inventions and Adaptations Used to Settle the Great Plains
17.
What inventions helped farmers fence their fields?
a)
Railroads
b)
Steel plows
c)
Windmills
d)
Barbed wire
18.

What did the settlers use to build their houses out of?

a)

trees

b)

grass

c)

sod

d)

buffalo skins

19.
Identify the Great Plains region using the map
a)
Green
b)
Yellow
c)
Pink
d)
Blue
20.
The Great Plains region is well-known for their 
a)
rolling hills and small shrubs
b)
mountains and valleys
c)
flat, treeless prairies
d)
rivers and marshalnds
21.

What area is the center of the automobile industry?

a)

Pittsburgh

b)

Chicago

c)

New England

d)

Detroit *Pick me

22.

Which area was the center of the meat packing industry?

a)

Chicago ** Pick Me

b)

Detroit

c)

New England

d)

Pittsburgh

23.
What area was the center of the textile industry post 1865?
a)
San Francisco
b)
New England
c)
New York
d)
Chicago
24.
Which area is the center of steel production?
a)
Chicago
b)
New England
c)
San Francisco
d)
Pittsburgh
25.
New York, Boston, and Philadelphia are part of which region?
a)
Midwest
b)
Northeast
c)
Rocky Mountains
d)
Southwest
26.
What development changed people’s perception of the Great Plains?
a)
Availability of land in the eastern areas
b)
New Technologies
c)
Removal of Native Americans
d)
Transportation barriers
27.
Which area was the primary destination for iron ore deposits to sites of steel mills?
a)
Chicago
b)
Detroit
c)
Pittsburgh
d)
New England
28.
Alaska and Hawaii belong to which geographic region?
a)
Rocky Mountains (Western)
b)
Midwest
c)
Northeast
d)
noncontiguous
29.
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
30.
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
31.
Defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn
a)
Sitting Bull
b)
Crazy Horse
c)
George Custer
d)
William Sherman
32.
Leader of the Sioux Indians during the Ghost Dance movement
a)
Sitting Bull
b)
Crazy Horse
c)
Red Cloud
d)
Chief Joseph
33.
Leader of the Nez Perce who said, "I will fight no more forever."
a)
Sitting Bull
b)
Crazy Horse
c)
Red Cloud
d)
Chief Joseph
34.
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
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.
What was the last event of the Indian Wars?
a)
Dakatoa Uprising
b)
Sand Creek Massacre
c)
Little Bighorn
d)
Wounded Knee
37.

Which of the following were difficulties that settlers on the frontier faced? Choose three (3) correct answers.

a)

The lack of good farmland

b)

Extreme weather conditions

c)

The possibility of earthquakes

d)

Social isolation and loneliness

e)

The threat of raids by Native Americans

38.
Which of these had the greatest impact on American farm life in the late 1800's?
a)
Loss of Land
b)
New Inventions
c)
Loss of Labor
d)
Climate changes
39.
African Americans that moved west to claim land under the Homestead act of 1862 were called _____
a)
Freedmen
b)
Exodusters
c)
Westies
d)
Reconstruction
40.

What one animal meant the most to the Plains Indian's survival?

a)

Cows

b)

Buffalo

c)

Wolves

d)

Wild dogs

41.

What did the settlers use to build their houses out of?

a)

trees

b)

grass

c)

sod

d)

buffalo skins

42.
The Great Plains region is well-known for their 
a)
rolling hills and small shrubs
b)
mountains and valleys
c)
flat, treeless prairies
d)
rivers and marshalnds
43.

This picture is an example of which negative policy towards Native Americans?

a)

Assimilation

b)

Broken treaties

c)

Reservations

d)

Increasing buffalo population

44.

What was the main purpose of the Transcontinental Railroad?

a)

To make China more powerful.

b)

To help with transportation, communication, and to connect the nation.

45.

In what town did the Central Pacific Railroad start?

a)

Promontory, Utah

b)

Sacramento, California

46.

In what town did both parts of the railroad met?

a)

Omaha, Nebraska

b)

Promontory Point, Utah

47.

What caused Native Americans to attack the railroad and its workers?

a)

The railroad was built in the middle of their land and was destroying it.

b)

The workers started fighting with them.

48.

The Central Pacific and the Union Pacific companies hired workers from _________ and _________ to build their railroads.

a)

Japan and Germany

b)

China and Ireland

49.

What are Boom Towns?

a)

Towns that popped up along the railroads.

b)

Towns that exploded.

50.

Which animals were greatly affected by the Transcontinental Railroad being built?

a)

bison

b)

cattle

51.

What was a challenge the Central Pacific workers faced while building the Transcontinental Railroad?

a)

floods

b)

mountains

52.

What does transcontinental mean?

a)

to travel across a continent

b)

to travel from one continent to another continent

53.

The Transcontinental Railroad connected the __________________________.

a)

north and south

b)

east and west

54.

The building of the Transcontinental Railroad started in 1862 and ended in _________.

a)

1865

b)

1869

55.

The railroads were funded by loans and _____________.

a)

Land Grants

b)

All the gold in the world

56.
Which amendment abolished slavery in 1865?
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
57.
Which amendment gave African-Americans the right to vote in 1869?
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
58.
Which amendment said anyone born in United States is a citizen in 1868?
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
59.

Booker T Washington was an-

a)

educator

b)

Fireman

c)

Officer

d)

Pilot

60.

Was Booker T. Washington a slave?

a)

yes

b)

no

61.
-Born into slavery on a plantation in Virginia -Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education -Organized the Tuskegee Institute for agricultural and industrial education
a)
W.E.B. Du Bois
b)
Rosa Parks
c)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
d)
Booker T. Washington
62.
Which person accepted social separation and believed racial equality could be achieved through vocational education?
a)
 Booker T. Washington
b)
Martin Luther King, Jr. 
c)
. W.E.B. Du Bois                               
d)
William Lloyd Douglas
63.
Which of the following believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans?
a)
William Lloyd Douglas
b)
W.E.B. Du Bois
c)
George Washington     
d)
Booker T. Washington
64.
The separation of people based upon race or some other characteristic is referred to as?
a)
Assimilation                        
b)
Civil Rights
c)
Segregation         
d)
Desegregation
65.

Booker T Washington and WEB DuBois both agreed that

a)

white people were superior.

b)

the telephone is the best invention.

c)

education for African-Americans was important.

66.

Booker T Washington

a)

was born rich.

b)

was a white man.

c)

believed education was NOT important.

d)

was principal of the Tuskegee Institute.

67.

WEB DuBois

a)

founded the NAACP

b)

worked in a salt mine at age 9

c)

was born in Tennessee

d)

taught job skills to African-Americans

68.

In 1909, who helped found the NAACP?

a)

Booker T Washington

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

WEB DuBois

d)

Thomas Edison

69.

WEB DuBois believed that

a)

African-Americans needed to be educated and involved in politics.

b)

job skills were most important.

c)

being a slave was fun.

d)

having a job was not important.

70.
According to Booker T. Washington, what would help African Americans gain equality?
a)
Learning skills and trades              
b)
Holding protests and strikes
c)
Attending meetings and elections
d)
Working longer and harder
71.

Delivered his Atlanta Compromise speech at the 1895 International Cotton Expo

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

WEB Dubois

72.

Leader of the Tuskegee Institute that provided vocational education & job training for African Americans

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

WEB Dubois

73.

Helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

WEB Dubois

74.

Was an original founding member of the Niagara Movement (an early civil rights organization)

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

WEB Dubois

75.

Believed political rights were more important than economic rights

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

WEB Dubois

76.

His can be considered a "baby steps" approach to civil rights.

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

WEB Dubois

77.

His can be considered a "giant leap" forward approach to civil rights.

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

WEB Dubois

78.

Whites Only Water Fountain

.... this sign represents what laws in the South

a)

Racial Rules

b)

Lincoln Laws

c)

Jim Crow Laws

79.
Jim Crow laws were mainly directed at this group 
a)
Latinos
b)
African-Americans 
c)
Native Americans
d)
Asians
80.
Segregation in the South was mainly based on 
a)
hair color
b)
religion
c)
race (color of the skin)
d)
economic status
81.
1865 - abolished slavery and involuntary servitude
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendent
c)
15th Amendment
82.
1868, makes all persons born in the United States—including former slaves— citizens of the country and guarantees equal protection of the laws. 
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
83.

1870, granted voting rights to all men regardless of their race or color or because they have previously been slaves

a)

13th Amendment

b)

14th Amendment

c)

15th Amendment

84.

What Supreme Court case ruled "separate but equal" was legal?

a)

Texas vs. Johnson

b)

Tinker vs. DesMoines

c)

Brown vs. Board of Education

d)

Plessy vs. Ferguson

85.
Legal separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences.
a)
Integration
b)
Conflagration
c)
Confederation
d)
Segregation
86.

What areas were racially segregated?

a)

Schools

b)

Housing

c)

Public Transportation

d)

All of these answers

87.

What does NAACP stand for?

a)

National Association for the Advocacy of Colored Pencils

b)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

c)

National Association for the Application of the Color Purple

88.

NAACP was established as a response to the ongoing violence against Black people around the country.

a)

True

b)

False

89.

What is the main goal of the NAACP?

a)

To ensure the rights and equality of colored people

b)

To ensure the rights and equality of white people

90.

Thurgood Marshall argued the case of Brown vs. Board of Education which ended legal segregation of schools.

a)

True

b)

False

91.
What organization, created by WEB Dubois, advocated for rights for blacks and other minorities?
a)
NAACP
b)
NCAA
c)
NATO
d)
NAFTA

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