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WorksheetsUSHC Unit 3 Section 4 #1 - Wilson HS
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 20mins
What was name of the government program that provided 160 acres of land in return for the improvement of the land, the government hoped this program would escalate the settlement of the West?
Pacific Railway Act
Morrill Land Grant Act
"40 Acres and a Mule" Program
Homestead Act
What federal legislation provided government support/aid for the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the 19th century?
Pacific Railway Act
Homestead Act
Morrill Land Grant Act
Headright Acts
Which of the following was used by the federal government to help finance the construction of the transcontinental railroad during the 19th century?
Government ownership of the railroads
Land Grants
Legislation making available the use of slave labor for construction of the railroad
Government use of military funds were used to finance the railroad
Which of the following was NOT a result of the construction of the transcontinental railroad?
Great economic opportunities for Native Americans
The creation of new towns and cities
The establishment of a national marketplace
Faster and more efficient means of transportation
What was the name of those African Americans who migrated from the South following the Civil War and settled in the West to start a new life?
Mormons
Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
Exodusters
Reorder the following...
Civil War
Reconstruction
Compromise of 1877
Plessy v. Ferguson
NAACP
What is the only native American religion established in the United States, they would be persecuted and forced to migrate westward and settled in lands of the Great Salt Lake?
Baptists
Methodists
Mormons
Puritans
Which immigrant group was highly recruited to construct the transcontinental railroad in the West?
South Americans
Italians
Jews
Chinese
What was constitutional amendment granted all men, especially African Americans, the right to vote?
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
Though different in their ideologies in regards to African American rights, what belief did both Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois agree?
Direct confrontation to demand greater rights
The belief in nonviolent resistance
Change will only occur as a result of foreign pressure to protect rights
The need for an education
