US History EOC Review

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What was the significance of the Dred-Scott decision?

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The Supreme Court overruled attempts by Congress to limit the spread of slavery.

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What was the main reason for fighting in Florida during the Civil War?

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The Union army wanted to prevent cattle and crops in Florida from reaching Confederate troops.

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How did President Andrew Johnson's views on Reconstruction differ from those of Congress?

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President Johnson accepted Southern "Black Codes", while Congress over turned them with a Civil Rights bill prohibiting racial discrimination.

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How did the "Black Codes" of 1865-1866 differ from the "Jim Crow" laws of the 1880s and 1890s?

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Black Codes prohibited freedmen from traveling freely, serving on juries or exercising civil rights; Jim Crow laws required racial segregation.

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What was the primary objective of the US policy that led to the conflict shown in the painting depicting the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876?

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To force American Indian tribes on the Great Plains to live on reservations.

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Which was NOT one of the ways in which 19th century settlers dealt with the challenges of farming on the Great Plains? Options: They used barbed wire for fencing. They burned cow and buffalo chips for fuel. They relied on irrigation from nearby lakes for water. They used steel plows to dig furrows into the tough soil.

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They relied on irrigation from nearby lakes for water.

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What was the main effect of the system of debt peonage that emerged in the South during the late 19th century?

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African Americans labored in a system that was nearly the same as slavery.

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The diagram shows the various goals of the Dawes Act of 1877. Which phrase best completes the diagram?

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Push Native Americans to adopt an agricultural lifestyle.

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What is the view of the cartoonist about the power of Tammany Hall in New York City?

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Tammany Hall maintained its power by falsifying vote counts in elections.

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Why did the population of Chinese Americans decrease, as shown on the chart, when the populations of many other ethnic groups were increasing?

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Congressional legislation in the 1880s banned any further immigration of workers from China.