Quiz: Content - Reconstruction and Westward Expansion 48/50
1. Who invented a plow with an iron blade that was strong enough to till in the soil of the
Great Plains? 2/2 pts
a. John Deere
2. What happened to agricultural prices in the Gilded Age? 2/2 pts
a. They declined dramatically
3. Which of the following statements concerning the expansion of American railroads
between 1860 and 1900 is true? 2/2 pts
a. Railroad mileage increased nearly six fold.
4. The land possessed by Native Americans shrank rapidly from 1850 to 1890. 2/2 pts
a. True
5. According to recent estimates, how many Americans died in the Civil War? 2/2 pts
a. Between 700,000 and 800,000
6. Which Gospel writer argued, “Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile an account
of the things accomplished among us, just as those who from the beginning were
eyewitnesses and servants of the world have handed them down to us, it seems fitting for
me as well, having investigated everything carefully from the beginning, to write it out
for you in consecutive order…; so that you might know the exact truth about the things
you have been taught.”? 2/2 pts
a. Luke
7. Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution supposedly guaranteed citizenship rights? 2/2
pts
a. 14th amendment
8. Which of the following is NOT a way southern communities restricted the rights of black
Americans? 2/2 pts
a. Southern communities authorized mandatory prison sentences even for
misdemeanor offenses.
9. According to your textbook, which statement best describes the purpose of the
Freedmen’s Bureau 2/2 pts
a. It helped provide basic necessities like food, medical care, clothing, and education
to ex-slaves.
10. According to your textbook, what best explains the purpose of the Black Codes in the
1860s? 2/2 pts
a. They were designed to give whites control over freedmen.
11. Which of the following statements about the end of Reconstruction is accurate? 2/2 pts
a. Many white Southern leaders sympathized with Republican economic policies in
the South but could not publicly support them.
12. What issue did the Fifteenth Amendment address? 2/2 pts
a. Suffrage
13. Among other positions, Booker T. Washington 2/2 pts
a. Favored industrial over classical education.
14. What was the purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment? 2/2 pts
a. It guaranteed citizenship rights to all people born in the United States
15. How did voting percentages in the South change during the 1890s? 2/2 pts
a. They decreased for both whites and blacks.
16. What did Ida B. Wells devote her writing to attacking in the 1890s? 2/2 pts
a. The crime of lynching
17. What did the Jim Crow laws do? 2/2 pts
a. They imposed a system of state-supported segregation.
18. What was the significance of the Rocky Mountain school of painting? 2/2 pts
a. It helped inspire the growth of tourism in the West.
19. Which of the following Indian tribes was found on the Pacific Coast of the Far West? 2/2
pts
a. Pomo
20. Plains Indians were formidable foes of white settlers because they were usually able to
present a united front. 2/2 pts
a. False
21. What attributed to the decline of the open-range cattle industry in the mid-1880s? 2/2 pts
a. Severe weather
22. Which American territory in the continental United States has been granted statehood by
1900? 0/2 pts
a. Arizona
23. What is significant about the Homestead Act of 1862? 2/2 pts
a. It allowed settlers to purchase 160 acres cheaply if they agreed to farm and
improve it
24. What was the purpose of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887? 2/2 pts
a. It was designed to force Indians to become landowners and farmers.
25. How many buffalo remained in the west by 1875? 2/2 pts
a. About 1,000
