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WorksheetsUS.U1.Vocabulary
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
The belief in the possibility of a better, richer, and fuller life through opportunity, often symbolized by land ownership and success through hard work, is called ________.
American Dream
Manifest Destiny
Industrial Revolution
Social Darwinism
To acquire or settle on land under a Homestead law, such as the Homestead Act, which offered 160 acres to settlers who lived on and improved the land for five years, is called ________.
Homestead
Sharecropping
Enclosure
Squatting
Black Americans who migrated from the South to Kansas after Reconstruction seeking better lives, often through homesteading, were known as ________.
Exoduster
Buffalo Soldiers
Carpetbaggers
Freedmen
A region just beyond or at the edge of a settled area, viewed as full of opportunity and symbolic of new beginnings in American history, is called the ________.
Frontier
Colony
Metropolis
Territory
Force, restraints, or threats that pressure someone to act against their will is known as ________.
Duress
Consent
Negligence
Consideration
Moving from place to place without a permanent home, often used to describe certain Native American tribes, is called being ________.
Nomadic
Sedentary
Urbanized
Agricultural
A place that provides or stores food and supplies, often in military or reservation settings, is called a ________.
Commissary
Auditorium
Sanctuary
Observatory
To abolish or break; to treat as nonexistent, often used in the context of broken treaties with Native Americans, is called ________.
Abrogation
Ratification
Annexation
Reconciliation
To integrate or be absorbed into the culture of a population or group is to ________.
Assimilate
Segregate
Emigrate
Isolate
Legislation that provides money for something; e.g., government funding of Indian affairs, is called ________.
Appropriations
Resolutions
Filibusters
Amendments
A recipient’s portion or share of something that is given out, such as land assigned to Native Americans under the Dawes Act, is called an ________.
Allotment
Annexation
Reservation
Homestead
The term that means 'forever' is ________.
In perpetuity
Temporarily
Occasionally
Briefly
A fixed amount of food to be shared, often distributed by the government on reservations, is called ________.
Rations
Donations
Allowances
Permits
A provision added to existing legislation, such as one that cut rations to the Sioux in 1876, is called a ________.
Rider
Amendment
Veto
Filibuster
A priest-like elder in an indigenous religion believed to have special powers to communicate with the spirit world is called a ________.
Shaman
Rabbi
Imam
Monk
Not able to be affected or damaged, often used metaphorically (e.g., belief in ghost shirts’ protection from bullets), is described as being ________.
Impervious
Fragile
Transparent
Vulnerable
What is the term for the cruel slaughter of a large number of people, especially unresisting or helpless ones?
Massacre
Celebration
Rescue
Migration
What is the term for a person who wanders without purpose and has no permanent home or employment?
Vagrancy
Philanthropy
Residency
Entrepreneurship
What is the system in which state prisoners were leased out as labor to businesses and individuals called?
Convict Lease
Sharecropping
Indentured Servitude
Tenant Farming
What term refers to the period before the Civil War, often used when discussing laws or conditions for free Black people in the South?
Antebellum
Reconstruction
Emancipation
Jim Crow
What is the legal doctrine established by Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), upholding segregation if equal facilities were provided?
Separate but Equal
Judicial Review
Manifest Destiny
Due Process
What is the term for taking away a right, especially the right to vote; used to describe efforts to prevent Black Americans from voting?
Disenfranchisement
Emancipation
Suffrage
Gerrymandering
What term, coined by W.E.B. Du Bois, refers to the most educated and capable 10% of Black Americans who would lead progress toward equality?
Talented Tenth
Black Elite
Harlem Vanguard
Golden Circle
What are colleges created with federal land or funding, especially under the Morrill Acts, to provide practical education called?
Land Grant University
Ivy League College
Community College
Technical Institute
What is the act of killing someone, usually by mob action, without legal authority, often targeting Black men under false accusations called?
Lynching
Exoneration
Emancipation
Indictment
What does NAACP stand for, and what is its purpose?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; a civil rights organization founded in 1909 that used legal and political advocacy to promote equality.
National Association for the Advancement of Community Programs; an organization focused on local development.
National Alliance for the Advancement of Civil Protection; a group dedicated to emergency response.
National Association for the Advancement of Cultural Preservation; an organization promoting historical sites.
What is the name of the civil rights group founded by W.E.B. Du Bois and others in 1905, advocating full rights for Black Americans and laying the foundation for the NAACP?
Niagara Movement
Tuskegee Institute
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Freedmen's Bureau
What is a test of reading and writing used to disenfranchise Black and poor voters in the South called?
Literacy Test
Poll Tax
Grandfather Clause
Citizenship Exam
What is a fee required before voting, used to restrict voting rights for Black and poor people called?
Poll Tax
Literacy Test
Grandfather Clause
Voter ID Fee
What is the law called that allowed those whose ancestors voted before the Civil War to bypass literacy tests and poll taxes, effectively disenfranchising Black voters?
Grandfather Clause
Jim Crow Law
Emancipation Proclamation
Voting Rights Act
