UNIT 1 (EXPANSION AND MIGRATIONS) SHORT REVIEW

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The attached image would be used to help explain which of the following? The Homestead Act, Jim Crow laws, The Transcontinental Act of 1873, the Freedman's Bureau

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The Homestead Act

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Which of the following was NOT a challenge to successful implementation of the Homestead Act of 1862?
- Most people could not afford the cost of moving out west.
- There was little interest among citizens in moving west.
- The land being sold lacked the qualities for successful crop yields.
- Land speculators took advantage of loopholes and bought much of the land.

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There was little interest among citizens in moving west.

Front

Some settlers moving west did not think the Great Plains were great for farming because..

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the area received little rainfall and had few trees.

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What was NOT considered a PULL factor for settlers to move westward in the late 1800s? Options: opportunities, cheap land, a better life, discrimination

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discrimination

Front

Another way of explaining "assimilation" is _____?

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a minority culture adopting majority traits

Front

How does the policy instituted in Dawes Act contrast with previous Native American policies?

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It encourages Native Americans to assimilate and adopt U.S. citizenship.

Front

This act prohibited all Chinese entering the country with the exception of Chinese students, tourists, teachers, merchants, and government officials.

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Chinese Exclusion Act

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The attached image represents which of the following terms? nativism, assimilation, Jim Crow Laws, Exodusters

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assimilation

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Exodusters were ______.

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inspired by Benjamin Singleton, headed to lands like Kansas, escaping oppressive policies targeting newly freed slaves.

Front

Under the Compromise of 1877, _____.

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Southern support was given to the Republican choice in the election of 1876 in exchange for removal of federal troops from the South