US History Midterm

1. What was the Homestead Act?

• 1. The act provided anyone over the age of 21 with 160 acres of land for a small filing fee.

• 1. The act provided anyone over the age of 18 with 300 acres of land for free.

• 1. The rule that made Indians in the West move to Canada

• 1. Forced people to move from the south.

1. Where did the Transcontinental RR meet?

• 1.  San Francisco, California

• 1.  Promontory, Utah

• 1.  Memphis, Tennessee

• 1.  Omaha, Nebraska

1. What was the purpose of the Jim Crow Laws?

• 1. To keep black people from voting

• 1. To keep black people and white people separate

• 1. Segregation

1. What was the ruling on the Supreme Court case Plessy vs. Ferguson?

• 1. Women’s suffrage is constitutional

• 1. Women’s suffrage is not constitutional

• 1. Separate but equal is constitutional 

• 1. Separate but equal is not constitutional

1. William "Boss" Tweed was known for what? 

• 1. Controlling elections, and giving favors away to immigrants to stay in control

• 1. Political cartoonist exposing the Gilded Age

• 1. Journalist who exposed the unethical practices of the meat packing industry

• 1. Robbing banks and then giving the money to the poor

1. Thomas Nast was known for what? 

• 1. Robbing banks and then giving the money to the poor

• 1. Journalist who exposed the unethical practices of the meat packing industry

• 1. Controlling elections, and giving favors away to immigrants to stay in control

• 1. Political cartoonist exposing the Gilded Age

1. What industry did the Interstate Commerce Act regulate?

• 1. Steel

• 1. Railroads

• 1. Electricity

• 1. Oil

1.  Why was the Pendleton Act significant? 

• 1. Got rid of any monopolies trying to form

• 1.  Put the price of RRs in rural areas in check

• 1.  Got rid of the spoils system

• 1.  Gave political office jobs to friends of politicians 

1. Who created the Social Darwinism theory?

• 1. Booker T. Washington 

• 1.  William Graham Sumner

• 1. William Jennings Bryan

• 1. Billy Sunday

1. Who founded the Tuskegee Institute?

• 1.  W.E.B. Du Bois

• 1. Madam C.J. Walker

• 1. Booker T. Washington

• 1. Billy Sunday