West Review Quiz

What was the government's main motivation for enacting the Homestead Act of 1862?

• to encourage settlement in the western territories

• to give newly freed slaves their own farms

• to encourage Native Americans to assimilate

• to establish peaceful relations with Mexico

Which invention significantly reduced the need for cowboys to manage cattle on open ranges?

• windmills

• railroads

• barbed wire

• telegraph lines

What kind of jobs in the West were more permanent and led people to settle in one place?

• fur trapping

• buffalo hunting

• silver mining

• farming

In the Industrial Age, which two groups faced significant challenges despite the overall economic growth in America?

• entrepreneurs and philanthropists

• farmers and factory workers

• philanthropists and immigrants

• entrepreneurs and farmers

Which individual would oppose the Populist's suggestion of using the silver standard to back the nation's currency?

• a Democrat

• a factory worker

• a farmer

• an industrialist

Which group of Americans formed the Populist Party to advocate for their interests?

• industrial workers

• farmers

• urban professionals

• small business owners

During and after Reconstruction, what kept many African Americans from voting?

• the 15th Amendment

• desegregation laws

• the Freedmen’s Bureau

• poll taxes

Which of the following best describes the main goal of the NAACP when it was established in 1909?

• to promote the interests of European immigrants

• to support the women's suffrage movement

• to ensure equal rights and eliminate racial discrimination

• to maintain segregation in the southern states

This is an excerpt from the ruling in a Supreme Court case that was decided in 1896. The statute of Louisiana requiring railway companies carrying passengers…to provide equal, but separate, accommodations for the white and colored races…[is] not in conflict with the provisions either of the Thirteenth Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. This excerpt is from the ruling in which Supreme Court case?

• Lochner v. New York

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Swift and Co. v. United States

• United States v. E.C. Knight

Jim Crow laws were designed to have the greatest impact upon which group of people?