Unit 1: Reconstruction and Westward Expansion

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What economic opportunity drew the most migrants to the West?

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access to land for agriculture

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Most practices and objects associated with American cowboys were modified from ______ ranchers known as vaqueros.

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Mexican

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The Paiute prophet Wovoka promised that which of the following would occur if Indians obeyed his instructions and participated in the ceremony that came to be called the Ghost Dance: Dead relatives would return to Earth, Anglo settlers would disappear in an apocalyptic disaster, Drought would end and the buffalo would return?

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All of the answer choices are correct.

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How did railroads transform the American economy?

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increased the role of government in the economy

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What was the Lost Cause?

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A glorification of the memory of the Confederacy and a romanticization of the Old South as a pastoral land with benevolent masters and happy slaves.

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What legal principle was enshrined by the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson?

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separate but equal

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How was sharecropping a compromise between former white enslavers and African American workers after the Civil War?

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African Americans gained control over their labor and whites largely retained ownership of the land.

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What law broke Native American reservations into individual family farms?

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Dawes General Allotment Act

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The Lost Cause myth asserted that

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Civil War was not about slavery

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What was one method that states used to bypass the 15th Amendment, which guaranteed the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude?

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Prospective voters were required to pass a literacy test in order to vote.