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WorksheetsNew South and West Review
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 15mins
(a) was the major issue that the Civil War was fought over.
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?
Reconstruction
Discrimination
Poll Taxes
Redeemer
Select the ways that Southern States disenfranchised (take away right to vote from African Americans during Reconstruction?
Fraud
Violence
Literacy Tests
Poll Taxes
What was a Redeemer?
A southerner who wanted to stop Reconstruction
A northerner who wanted to stop Reconstruction
An African American who left the South for the North
Which candidate was supported by the North in the election of 1876?
Samuel Tilden
Rutherford B Hayes
Which candidate in the election of 1876 was supported by the South?
Rutherford B Hayes
Samuel Tilden
What did the North get in the Compromise of 1877?
Rutherford B Hayes is President
Samuel Tilden is President
The End of Reconstruction
The addition of Alaska to the US
What did the South get in the Compromise of 1877?
Rutherford B Hayes is President
Samuel Tilden is President
The End of Reconstruction
The addition of Alaska to the US
True or False; ending Reconstruction early was a good decision because the South was completely reconstructed.
True
False
What is the "Lost Cause" belief?
When the South tried to claim that the Civil War was more about state's rights than it was about slavery
When the South tried to claim that the Civil War was more about Slavery than state's rights
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.
True
False
Which of the following defines sharecropping?
You live on someone's land and grow crops and pay the landowners crops to use their land
You buy a piece of land with a friend and split the profits from farming
You share part of your harvest with those less fortunate
Why did Free Blacks who were formally slaves choose to start sharecropping?
It was the only way they could provide for their family
It was a great way to get rich
It was an excellent way to gain experience in farming
True or False; Henry Grady envisioned the the "New South" would have more farming than it would manufacturing.
True
False
In which Southern city was steel produced as part of this New South movement?
Birmingham, Alabama
Montgomery, Alabama
Colombia, Tennessee
Green Hill, Tennessee
Which of the following defines Jim Crow laws?
Racist laws in the South that took away the rights of African Americans
Law that outlawed slavery
Law that gave African Americans political rights
Law that outlawed discrimination based on race
Which of the following defines the 13th Amendment?
Racist laws in the South that took away the rights of African Americans
Law that outlawed slavery
Law that gave African Americans political rights
Law that outlawed discrimination based on race
Which of the following defines the 14th Amendment?
Racist laws in the South that took away the rights of African Americans
Law that outlawed slavery
Law that gave African Americans political rights
Law that outlawed discrimination based on race
Which of the following defines the 15th Amendment?
Racist laws in the South that took away the rights of African Americans
Law that outlawed slavery
Law that gave African Americans political rights
Law that outlawed discrimination based on race
Check all of the following that describe how the Supreme Court works.
9 judges are on the Supreme Court
Judges serve till death
Judges are appointed by the President
The Supreme Court is the final decision on any court case
The Supreme Court can be overruled by Congress
True or False; Separate but Equal was the decision that came out of the court case Plessy vs Ferguson.
True
False
Which political act gave free land out West to people if they moved there and improved the land?
Homestead Act
Immigration Acts
Johnson Reed Act
Espionage Act
Exodusters were African Americans who left the South for the West to escape what?
Jim Crow Laws
Yellow Fever
Unemployment
Starvation
What is the belief that is was the destiny of the US to spread all the way to the West?
Manifest Destiny
Imperialism
Jim Crow
Nationalism
Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the Transcontinental Railroad?
The Union Pacific started building the Railroad in Nebraska
The Central Pacific started building the Railroad in California
The two companies building the railroad were paid in land to build the railroad
The railroad was finished in Salt Lake City, Utah
What animal was hunted to near extinction on the Great Plains?
Buffalo
Tigers
Grizzly Bears
Koalas
American cowboys were predominately what race?
White
Hispanic and African American
True or False; gun laws in the "Wild West" were stricter than they are today.
True
False
