WorksheetsUnit 3 Spiral Review #2
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
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?
What federal legislation provided government support/aid for the construction of the transcontinental railroad in the 19th century?
Which of the following was used by the federal government to help finance and promote the construction of the transcontinental railroad during the 19th century?
Government ownership of the railroads
Legislation making slave labor available for railroad construction
Land grants and subsidies to the railroad companies
None of these
What group of African Americans migrated westward after the Civil War, often to locations like Kansas, to seek a new life away from the South?
Okies
Mormons
What persecuted religious group migrated West to the Great Salt Lake in Utah?
Which immigrant group was highly recruited to construct the transcontinental railroad in the West?
What is the term for the lands where Native Americans were forced to live by the federal government?
The American destruction of what animal caused the decline of the Great Plains Native Americans in the late 19th century?
moose
What was the Native American battle in which the Sioux massacred the Colonel Custer's 5th Cavalry, increasing the tense relationship between the Native Americans and American military?
Battle of Wounded Knee
What legislation passed by the federal government forced the assimilation of the Native Americans through the breaking up of the reservations and the establishment of citizenship of the Native Americans?
What marks the official end of Reconstruction in the South?
The election of Ulysses S. Grant to the presidency
The ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution
The Compromise of 1877 settling the disputed 1876 election
The “not guilty” verdict in President Johnson’s impeachment trial
Which Supreme Court case supported the legality of segregation?
In the late 1800s, southern state governments used literacy tests, poll taxes, and intimidation to...
Prevent African Americans from voting
Believed that a “talented tenth,” the best and the brightest, of the African American community should lead the race for full social and political equality with whites was the view of...
Why was the National Association for the Advanced of Colored People (NAACP) created?
To create a political party for African Americans
to fight racial discrimination in legal courts
African American rights continued to thrive in the years following the conclusion of the Reconstruction.
True
False
What 19th century civil rights activist promoted the need for government to implement anti-lynching legislation in the United States?
What 19th century civil rights activist promoted the need for African Americans to pursue a vocational education, focusing instead on economic well-being rather than political and social equality?
How did the construction of the Erie Canal and transcontinental railroad contribute to industrial growth?
by making the transportation faster and reducing costs
by benefited the agricultural areas in the south
it had no impact on transportation.
by increasing labor costs significantly.
Select TWO strategies that were used to disenfranchise African American male voters after Reconstruction.
Literacy Tests
Land ownership
Poll Taxes
Voter ID Laws
