DE HIS 122 Review (Units 7-8)

Which of the following choices best describes Lincoln’s primary goal immediately following the Civil War?

• punishing the rebel (former Confederate) states

• improving the lives of formerly enslaved peoples

• reunifying the nation

• paying off accumulated war debts

Which of the following was a function of the Freedmen’s Bureau? Choose all that apply.

• reuniting families

• collecting taxes

• establishing schools

• helping workers secure labor contracts

• provide medical assistance

Which person or group was most responsible for the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment?

• President Andrew Johnson

• Radical Republicans in Congress

• President Abraham Lincoln

• former Confederate leaders

Which of the following choices places the events in the correct chronological order?

• Lincoln's Assassination, the Compromise of 1877, Radical Recontruction Begins, 15th Amendment Ratified

• Lincoln's Assassination, Radical Reconstruction Begins, the Compromise of 1877, 15th Amendment Ratified

• Lincoln's Assassination, Radical Reconstruction Begins, 15th Amendment Ratified, the Compromise of 1877

• Lincoln's Assassination, 15th Amendment Ratified, the Compromise of 1877, Radical Reconstruction Begins

Which of the following was the term southerners used for a White southerner who tried to overturn the changes of Reconstruction?

• scalawag

• carpetbagger

• redeemer

• Radical Republicans

Which of the following options represents a group that participated significantly in westward migration after 1870? Choose all that apply.

• African American “exodusters” escaping racism and seeking economic opportunities

• former Southern slaveholders seeking land and new financial opportunities

• recent immigrants from Europe and from Asia

• northerners settling lands following the passage of the Homestead Act

What did the Last Arrow pageant symbolize?

• the continuing fight of the Native Americans

• the final step in the Americanization process

• the rebellion at Little Bighorn

• the total extermination of the Native Americans from the West

Which of the following identifies a method by which the American government dealt with American Indians during the period of western settlement? Choose all that apply.

• relocation

• appeasement

• assimilation

• warfare

• broken treaties

The completion of this engineering and transportation accomplishment in 1869 significantly aided westward expansion after the Civil War?

• Oregon Trail

• Panama Canal

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Northwest Passage

Which of the following “robber barons” was notable for the exploitative way he made his fortune in railroads? Choose the best TWO responses.

• J. Pierpont Morgan

• Andrew Carnegie

• Jay Gould

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• John D. Rockefeller