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Unit 1 review

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who won the election of 1876?

a)

Rutherford B Hayes

b)

Samuel Tilden

2.

What allowed Hayes to be president in exchange for the end of reconstruction in the south?

a)

Plessy v Ferguson

b)

Compromise of 1877

c)

The 14th Ammendment

d)

Jim Crow

3.

Who won the popular vote in the 1876 election but did not become president?

a)

John Wilkes Booth

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Rutherford B Hayes

d)

Samuel Tilden

4.

The end of reconstruction led to an increase in:

a)

Sharecropping

b)

Prohibition

c)

Jim Crow laws

d)

Women’s rights

5.

Which of the following was not part of reconstruction?

a)

13th amendment

outlawed slavery

b)

14th amendment

guaranteed equality

c)

15th amendment

prohibited voter restriction

d)

16th amendment

collect income taxes

6.

What was organized mass public torture and murder called during the reconstruction era?

a)

crime

b)

black codes

c)

disenfranchisement

d)

lynching

7.

What did Jim Crow laws do?

a)

Enforce segregation

b)

Increased rights for minorities

c)

Outlawed alcohol

d)

Encouraged interracial marriage

8.

Which of the following was not a Disenfranchisement method?

a)

grandfather clauses

b)

allowed for poll taxes

c)

literacy tests

d)

age requirements

9.

Who were the African Americans who migrated from the South to the West?

a)

lynching victims

b)

Exodusters

c)

Poor Americans

d)

Wealthy African Americans

10.

What laws sought to limit the rights of African Americans and keep them as landless workers?

a)

Segregation Codes

b)

White Codes

c)

Black Codes

d)

Grey Codes

11.

What did Plessy v Ferguson establish?

a)

Separate but equal doctrine

b)

Abolishment of Jim Crow laws

c)

Equality acts

d)

More rights to minorities

12.

What group was Benjamin “Pap” Singleton a part of?

a)

NAACP

b)

KKK

c)

Exodusters

d)

Radical Republicans Party

13.

Which of the following was not a quality of old immigrants?

a)

Arrived from 1860s-1900s

b)

Skilled workers with education

c)

Often settled in farms in the west and midwest with their families

d)

From northern and western Europe

14.

Which of the following was not a quality of new immigrants?

a)

Many were Catholic or Jewish

b)

From southern and Eastern Europe and Asia

c)

Arrived from 1840s-1860s

d)

Unskilled workers that moved to cities

15.

What are Ellis Island and Angel Island?

a)

Places for immigrants to live

b)

Processing stations for immigrants

c)

Islands where new laws were made

16.

Which of the following are push factors for Immigrants to move to America? select multiple answers

a)

Unsafe living

b)

job security

c)

war

d)

poverty

17.

What are pull factors for Immigrants moving to America?

select multiple answers

a)

Health insurance

b)

job opportunities

c)

education

d)

famine

18.

Which of the following is not an example of an Ethnic Cluster?

a)

Cities with large immigrant populations

b)

easy assimilation

c)

Stores that mirrored the homeland

d)

Difficult assimilation

19.

What was the house for immigrants that Jane Adams ran called?

a)

Hull House

b)

Adams House

c)

Settlement House

d)

Ellis House

20.

Who was the woman who helped immigrant women learn English and adopt American dress and diet?

a)

Henrietta Lacks

b)

Jacob Riis

c)

Margaret Thatcher

d)

Jane Adams

21.

What did Jacob Riis do?

a)

Composed a song about the troubles of assimilation

b)

Photographed “How the Other Half Lives”

c)

Published a book on his story of immigration

d)

Wrote a newspaper article about Jane Adams

22.

What was the tendency to prefer native born, white Americans, over “new” immigrants?

a)

The bessemer process

b)

Anti-Semitism

c)

Nativism

d)

Social Darwinists

23.

Which of the following is included in the Chinese Exclusion Act?

select multiple answers

a)

Sent Chinese immigrants back to China

b)

Forbade the nationalization of Chinese immigrants

c)

Limited rights of Chinese Americans

d)

Prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers

24.

What did the Gentleman’s agreement do?

a)

Prevented Japanese laborers from immigrating

b)

Prevented Japanese laborers from getting jobs

c)

Prevented Japanese laborers from having children

d)

Prevented Japanese laborers from owning property

25.

What two countries is the Gentleman’s Agreement between?

a)

United States and China

b)

United States and Japan

c)

Japan and Russia

d)

Japan and China

26.

Which of the following did Pap Singleton not do?

a)

Was a former slave

b)

Led southern slaves to Kansas

c)

Exoduster leader

d)

led the march on washington

27.

Who was the job competition between in the 1840s-1900s?

a)

Women vs Men

b)

Nativists vs Immigrants

c)

New Immigrants vs Old Immigrants

d)

Whites vs Blacks

28.

What are mutual aid societies?

a)

Americanization Programs/ Settlement Houses

b)

AIDS programs

c)

Homeless shelters

d)

Food banks