APUSH Period 6

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The Homestead Act (1862) assumed that public land should be administered in such a way as to...

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promote frontier settlement.

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The national government helped to finance transcontinental railroad construction in the late nineteenth century by providing railroad corporations with:

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land grants.

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The Morrill Act of 1862 (LT 6.1)

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granted public lands to states to support higher education.

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The Dawes Severalty Act (1887) did all of the following EXCEPT:
A) dissolved many tribes as legal entities.
B) tried to make rugged individualists of the Indians.
C) promoted Americanization of Native Americans.
D) increased tribal ownership of land.

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increased tribal ownership of land.

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The Homestead Act (1862) assumed that public land should be administered in such a way as to...

Back

promote frontier settlement.

Front

The national government helped to finance transcontinental railroad construction in the late nineteenth century by providing railroad corporations with:

Back

land grants.

Front

The Morrill Act of 1862

Back

granted public lands to states to support higher education.

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The Dawes Severalty Act (1887) did all of the following EXCEPT: A) dissolved many tribes as legal entities. B) tried to make rugged individualists of the Indians. C) promoted Americanization of Native Americans. D) increased tribal ownership of land.

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increased tribal ownership of land.

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In the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that: A) African Americans could be denied the right to vote. B) segregation was unconstitutional. C) “separate but equal” facilities were legally permissible D) the 14th Amendment did not apply to African Americans

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“separate but equal” facilities were legally permissible

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At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African Americans using all the following EXCEPT: A) literacy requirements. B) poll taxes. C) grandfather clauses. D) the use of federal troops

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the use of federal troops