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The government’s continuous changing of American Indian policy caused

distrust of the federal government among American Indians.

trust of the federal government among American Indians.

all American Indian tribes to rise up against federal government policies.

all American Indian tribes to accept federal government policies.

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Read the quote.I will fight no more forever. Who said this quote when the Nez Perce surrendered in 1877?

Chief Joseph

Geronimo

General Custer

Sitting Bull

What was problematic about the 1876 presidential election?

One of Grant’s staff members ran for president, even though he’d been accused of taking bribes.

Tilden won the popular vote, Hayes narrowly won the electoral vote, and votes in four states were disputed.

The Republican Party was divided between Grant’s followers and the Liberal Republicans.

Hayes won the popular vote, Tilden narrowly won the electoral vote, and Florida’s voting results were disputed.

Who won the popular vote in the 1876 presidential election?

Ulysses S. Grant

Rutherford B. Hayes

Horatio Seymour

Samuel J. Tilden

How did the end of the Civil War help the Union Pacific Railroad?

It supplied the railroad with labor in the form of free African Americans.

It freed the government to give more money to the Union Pacific line.

It ended the labor shortage, as war veterans went to work on the railroad.

It encouraged more people to travel the railroad to settle in the West.

Which of the following best describes William Jennings Bryan’s political experience?

Bryan served as the governor of Nebraska and as secretary of state.

Bryan served as a congressman and as the attorney general.

Bryan served as secretary of state and a congressman.

Bryan served as vice president.

Populists believed that bankers, landowners, and political parties

were in constant conflict at the expense of important issues.

had taken over the Knights of Labor along with other labor unions.

supported collective action to achieve prosperity for all.

worked together to keep control of the US in the hands of the wealthy.

President Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction

punished Confederates who owned large farms.

issued harsh penalties for Confederate military officers.

required all states to abolish the practice of slavery.

required states to repay their war debts quickly.

How did speculators take advantage of the Homestead Act?

by catering to new markets

by promising homesteaders a reliable link to the East

by creating phony claims

by preparing the land for planting

In the debate over the Thirteenth Amendment, Democrats in Congress

sought to end the institution of slavery for good.

tried to stop racism against African Americans.

pushed for the reinstatement of states’ rights.

called for a ban on involuntary servitude.

After emancipation, many formerly enslaved people built farms on abandoned land. What did President Johnson do with this land during Reconstruction?

Johnson returned the land to its former owners.

Johnson seized the land for the federal government.

Johnson officially gave the land to formerly enslaved people.

Johnson arranged for the government to purchase the land.

How did the system of sharecropping affect landowners and laborers in the South?

The system did not provide landowners with enough profits because laborers often took sizable cuts.

The system typically drove laborers off the farms they had worked when they were enslaved and left landowners without workers.

The system often trapped laborers in a cycle of debt and dependence while allowing landowners to profit from laborers’ hard work.

The system left landowners with mounting piles of debt because laborers had little to no incentives to work the fields.

How did the federal government use land grants in the West in the 1860s?

The government gave land to the railroads to spur the development of a transcontinental railroad.

The government used land grants to relocate Indigenous People onto reservations.

The government slowed settlement of the West by withholding land grants until the Civil War was over.

The government offered land grants to free African Americans after the end of the Civil War.

During Reconstruction in the United States, the Freedmen’s Bureau

administered poll taxes and literacy tests during elections.

segregated white and African American students in schools.

negotiated labor contracts for African Americans in the South.

helped African Americans relocate from the South to the North.

After the Civil War, how did nostalgic white Southerners view the Old South?

They thought about the Old South with shame because of its history of slavery.

They held a romantic view of the Old South and believed it was mostly good.

They were glad the Old South was gone, and many relocated to the North.

They hoped that Reconstruction policies would bring the Old South back.

One of the main problems with the Indian reservation system was that government agents

took land from settlers to give to American Indians.

dealt dishonestly with American Indian families.

did not understand the power structure of American Indian tribes.

gave land to settlers who removed American Indians.

Which law banned slavery anywhere in the United States or its jurisdiction?

the Civil Rights Act of 1866

the Reconstruction Act of 1867

the Thirteenth Amendment

the Fourteenth Amendment

Racial violence in the South in the late 1800s often included lynching, which is another term for

killing, usually by hanging, without a trial.

unlawfully taking someone's possessions.

forcing someone to work at gunpoint.

setting a sharecropper's house and fields on fire.

What was one provision of the Dawes Act of 1887?

to stop American Indians from buying land

to stop American Indians from resisting assimilation

to divide and distribute land to American Indians

to divide and distribute land to white settlers

In 1883, several civil rights cases came before the Supreme Court that were related to

freedom of speech and the Ku Klux Klan.

land ownership for Southern sharecroppers.

discrimination in public facilities.

voting, poll taxes, and literacy tests.

How could William Jennings Bryan oppose the gold standard and also support bimetallism?

Bryan took each position at a different point in his career, with his support for bimetallism coming later in life.

Bimetallism called for a fixed value for gold, which was the opposite of the gold standard.

Bryan spoke in favor of the gold standard when addressing the wealthy and in favor of bimetallism when speaking to the poor.

Bryan opposed the idea of a fixed value for gold while supporting the concept of a currency based on two metals.

How did Congress react to the Black Codes of the 1860s?

Congress passed new laws that restricted the rights of African Americans.

Congress asked President Johnson to take control of Reconstruction.

Congress took control of Reconstruction from President Johnson.

Congress supported President Lincoln’s plan for states’ readmittance.

Read the quotation from the Omaha Platform.“The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few, unprecedented in the history of mankind; and the possessors of those, in turn, despise the republic and endanger liberty. From the same prolific womb of governmental injustice we breed the two great classes—tramps and millionaires.” What sentence best summarizes the above quotation?

The “common people” often take advantage of the wealthy class.

The wealthy often profit from the hard work of the lower class.

The wealthy succeed because they are stronger than the lower class.

There are three economic classes: the rich, the poor, and the middle class.

What did the Homestead Act grant to homesteaders?

It granted participants as much land as they pledged to farm.

It granted an extra 80 acres of land to anyone who made a purchase.

It granted anyone the right to rent farmland from the government.

It granted 160 acres of land to settlers who paid a small filing fee.

Radical Republicans in Congress wanted to provide more rights for formerly enslaved people, so they

supported all of Johnson’s Reconstruction policies.

overturned several of President Johnson’s vetoes.

passed the Black Codes, which protected African Americans.

called for a new Republican candidate for president in 1866.

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