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New South and West Review

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

(a)   was the major issue that the Civil War was fought over.

2.

What is the term for the for the readmitting of Southern States who had rebelled back into the United States on terms made by the North?

a)

Reconstruction

b)

Discrimination

c)

Poll Taxes

d)

Redeemer

3.

Select the ways that Southern States disenfranchised (take away right to vote from African Americans during Reconstruction?

a)

Fraud

b)

Violence

c)

Literacy Tests

d)

Poll Taxes

4.

What was a Redeemer?

a)

A southerner who wanted to stop Reconstruction

b)

A northerner who wanted to stop Reconstruction

c)

An African American who left the South for the North

5.

Which candidate was supported by the North in the election of 1876?

a)

Samuel Tilden

b)

Rutherford B Hayes

6.

Which candidate in the election of 1876 was supported by the South?

a)

Rutherford B Hayes

b)

Samuel Tilden

7.

What did the North get in the Compromise of 1877?

a)

Rutherford B Hayes is President

b)

Samuel Tilden is President

c)

The End of Reconstruction

d)

The addition of Alaska to the US

8.

What did the South get in the Compromise of 1877?

a)

Rutherford B Hayes is President

b)

Samuel Tilden is President

c)

The End of Reconstruction

d)

The addition of Alaska to the US

9.

True or False; ending Reconstruction early was a good decision because the South was completely reconstructed.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

What is the "Lost Cause" belief?

a)

When the South tried to claim that the Civil War was more about state's rights than it was about slavery

b)

When the South tried to claim that the Civil War was more about Slavery than state's rights

11.

True or false; the Lost Cause Myth was spread through the South by school textbooks, movies like Gone With The Wind, and by the widows of fallen Southern Soldiers.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

Which of the following defines sharecropping?

a)

You live on someone's land and grow crops and pay the landowners crops to use their land

b)

You buy a piece of land with a friend and split the profits from farming

c)

You share part of your harvest with those less fortunate

13.

Why did Free Blacks who were formally slaves choose to start sharecropping?

a)

It was the only way they could provide for their family

b)

It was a great way to get rich

c)

It was an excellent way to gain experience in farming

14.

True or False; Henry Grady envisioned the the "New South" would have more farming than it would manufacturing.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

In which Southern city was steel produced as part of this New South movement?

a)

Birmingham, Alabama

b)

Montgomery, Alabama

c)

Colombia, Tennessee

d)

Green Hill, Tennessee

16.

Which of the following defines Jim Crow laws?

a)

Racist laws in the South that took away the rights of African Americans

b)

Law that outlawed slavery

c)

Law that gave African Americans political rights

d)

Law that outlawed discrimination based on race

17.

Which of the following defines the 13th Amendment?

a)

Racist laws in the South that took away the rights of African Americans

b)

Law that outlawed slavery

c)

Law that gave African Americans political rights

d)

Law that outlawed discrimination based on race

18.

Which of the following defines the 14th Amendment?

a)

Racist laws in the South that took away the rights of African Americans

b)

Law that outlawed slavery

c)

Law that gave African Americans political rights

d)

Law that outlawed discrimination based on race

19.

Which of the following defines the 15th Amendment?

a)

Racist laws in the South that took away the rights of African Americans

b)

Law that outlawed slavery

c)

Law that gave African Americans political rights

d)

Law that outlawed discrimination based on race

20.

Check all of the following that describe how the Supreme Court works.

a)

9 judges are on the Supreme Court

b)

Judges serve till death

c)

Judges are appointed by the President

d)

The Supreme Court is the final decision on any court case

e)

The Supreme Court can be overruled by Congress

21.

True or False; Separate but Equal was the decision that came out of the court case Plessy vs Ferguson.

a)

True

b)

False

22.

Which political act gave free land out West to people if they moved there and improved the land?

a)

Homestead Act

b)

Immigration Acts

c)

Johnson Reed Act

d)

Espionage Act

23.

Exodusters were African Americans who left the South for the West to escape what?

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

Yellow Fever

c)

Unemployment

d)

Starvation

24.

What is the belief that is was the destiny of the US to spread all the way to the West?

a)

Manifest Destiny

b)

Imperialism

c)

Jim Crow

d)

Nationalism

25.

Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the Transcontinental Railroad?

a)

The Union Pacific started building the Railroad in Nebraska

b)

The Central Pacific started building the Railroad in California

c)

The two companies building the railroad were paid in land to build the railroad

d)

The railroad was finished in Salt Lake City, Utah

26.

What animal was hunted to near extinction on the Great Plains?

a)

Buffalo

b)

Tigers

c)

Grizzly Bears

d)

Koalas

27.

American cowboys were predominately what race?

a)

White

b)

Hispanic and African American

28.

True or False; gun laws in the "Wild West" were stricter than they are today.

a)

True

b)

False