APUSH Period 6

1. The Homestead Act (1862) assumed that public land should be administered in such a way as to... (LT 6.1)

•  A) raise government revenue.

•  B) promote frontier settlement.

•  C)  conserve natural resources.

• D) favor large-scale “bonanza” farms.

2. The national government helped to finance transcontinental railroad construction in the late nineteenth century by providing

      railroad corporations with (LT 6.1)

•  A) cash grants from new taxes.

•  B) land grants.

•  C) reduced prices for iron and steel.

•  D) aid for construction of railroad stations.

 3. The Morrill Act of 1862 (LT 6.1)

•  A) granted public lands to states to support higher education.

•  B) required compulsory school attendance through high school.

•  C) established the modern American research university.

•  D) mandated racial integration in public schools.

4. The Dawes Severalty Act (1887) did all of the following EXCEPT (LT 6.2)

•  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.

In the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that (LT 6.3)

• 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

At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African Americans using all the following EXCEPT: (LT 6.3)

•  A) literacy requirements.

•  B) poll taxes.

•  C) grandfather clauses.

•  D) the use of federal troops

As a leader of the African American community, Booker T. Washington…  (LT 6.4)

•  A) helped to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

• B) advocated social equality.

•  C) discovered hundreds of uses for the peanut.

•  D) promoted black self-help but did not challenge segregation.

That a “talented tenth” should lead the race to full social and political equality with whites was the view of ...? (LT 6.4)

• Eugene Debs

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Andrew Carnegie

The first great industrial trusts, the ____________ was organized through a principle of “horizontal integration” that ruthlessly incorporated or destroyed competitors.  (LT 6.5)

• American Railway Trust

• American Steel Company

• Standard Oil Company

• Unified Meat Industry Trust

All the following are true of the developments of the Gilded Age EXCEPT: (LT 6.5)

• patents and corporations allowed businesses to expand by offering legal protections to business owners

• the invention of Thomas Edison replaced gas lights and kerosene lamps

• the invention of Alexander Graham Bell made it possible to communicate without knowledge of mores code

• the government attempted to regulate monopolies to facilitate economic growth