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What was one of the most difficult tasks that homesteaders faced?
a) making soap
b) carrying water from the well
c) planting seeds
d) plowing the sod
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In general, the policy of President James K. Polk was one of
a) stopping expansion with the annexation of Texas.
b) stopping expansion with the annexation of California.
c) expansion across the continent.
d) limiting the growth of the United States.
The Civil War left the South
a) in full control of its government.
b) largely unchanged from before the war.
c) competition from freedmen.
d) in ruins.
When African Americans left southern farms in the late 1800s, where did they relocate?
a) in western mining towns
b) in suburbs
c) in Mexican border towns
d) in nearby cities
Which statement best describes the lifestyle of homesteaders?
a) Most women worked outside their homestead.
b) Homesteaders lived in isolation and avoided social contact.
c) Homesteaders often had to struggle even for the necessities.
d) Homesteaders lived simple and secure lives.
In his presidential Reconstruction plan, Andrew Johnson
a) put the South under strict military control.
b) matched Lincoln’s plan exactly.
c) was more generous than Lincoln.
d) allowed some slavery to continue.
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What created the mining boom that started with the California Gold Rush?
a) offers of free land
b) the lure of quick wealth
c) miners’ desire for a peaceful life
d) the Civil War
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The decision in the case Scott v. Sandford protected the rights of
a) recent immigrants.
b) fugitive slaves.
c) southern politicians.
d) slave owners.
Secessionists believed that they had a right to leave the Union, because
a) it had been created unconstitutionally.
b) the North refused to compromise.
c) they were being unfairly taxed.
d) they had joined it voluntarily.
One way the government sought to change Native Americans was by
a) requiring them to farm individual plots.
b) requiring them to move to growing cities.
c) finding them jobs on the railroads.
d) teaching them to hunt buffalo.
Who owned much of the western land near prime transportation routes?
a) Exodusters
b) “land-grant” colleges
c) squatters
d) railroads
To help black southerners adjust to freedom, Congress created
a) the Captured and Abandoned Property Act.
b) the Thirteenth Amendment.
c) the Ten Percent Plan.
d) the Freedmen’s Bureau.
In his proposal for postwar Reconstruction, Lincoln
a) tried to please Radical Republicans.
b) gave African Americans the vote.
c) aimed to punish the South.
d) set a tone of forgiveness.
Many land agreements between Native Americans and settlers fell apart because of different ideas about
a) government.
b) agricultural methods.
c) land ownership.
d) water rights.
What was the greatest impact of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry?
a) The raid deepened the division between North and South.
b) The raid caused the decline of the Whig Party.
c) The federal government agreed to let state governments decide all slavery issues.
d) Northerners and Southerners reached a temporary “cease-fire.”
As American settlers moved west in search of land, many Native American nations
a) were weakened or destroyed.
b) formed the Indian Territory.
c) settled in farming villages.
d) settled east of the Mississippi.
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