Ch. 16 & 17 Reading Quiz

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Question #1

In 1882, the U.S. Congress passed the ___________, which forbade further Chinese immigration into the United States for ten years. The ban was later extended on multiple occasions until its repeal in 1943. Eventually, some Chinese immigrants returned to China. Those who remained were stuck in the lowest-paying, most menial jobs.

A Chinese Exclusion Act

B Chinese Forbidden Law

C Asian Immigration Act

D Immigration Removal Act

Question #2

In 1862, Colonel John Chivington led a militia raid upon a Native American camp in which the leader had already negotiated a peaceful settlement. The camp was flying both the American flag and the white flag of surrender when the commander ordered his troops to murder close to one hundred people, the majority of them women and children,
What was this event called?

A Sand Creek Massacre

B Fierce Apache War

C Great Navajo Burial

D Cherokee Massacre

Question #3

During the Wild West time period, once travelers came to towns after filling their coffers with gold and other minerals, what was the effect of them spending their money in the towns?

A Social justice was spread

B The miners invested heavily into real estate

C Greater prosperity for the town

D More violence was unleashed

Question #4

In Figure 17.11, it shows a primary source image of the invention of the barbed wire in 1873. What was the nickname given to it by “Indians?”

A Cattle Killer

B Black Wire

C Devil’s Rope

D Earthly Steel

Question #5

What was the name given to the first peacetime all-black regiments in the U.S. Army who protected settlers from “Indian” attacks?

A Buffalo Soldiers

B Union Soldiers

C Border Soldiers

D Westward Soldiers

Question #6

The term of Manifest Destiny was coined by magazine editor ________ in 1845, when he wrote in the United States Magazine and Democratic Review that “it was our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our multiplying millions.”

A Eldridge Coolidge

B Tomas Rhodes

C Franklin Henderson

D John O’Sullivan

Question #7

How did congressional Republicans encourage westward expansion in the late nineteenth century?

A By passing more lenient immigration laws

B By buying up land from the French and Spanish

C By subsidizing businesses that helped settlers

D By offering direct financial aid to settlers

Question #8

The first published information about the Western frontier included information collected from the efforts of which group of people?

A Early British and French explorers

B Mexican migrants

C Native Americans working in the archives

D Fur traders and trappers

Question #9

Which statement best describes the concept of Manifest Destiny as it was understood in the nineteenth century?

A Americans had a divine duty to distinguish themselves from Europe.

B Americans had a divine obligation to spread their culture westward.

C Americans had a divine responsibility to spread Christianity throughout the known world

D Americans had a divine right to possess the world’s greatest empire.

Question #10

With which country did the United States jointly occupy Oregon Territory in the early nineteenth century?

A France

B Russia

C Spain

D Great Britain

Question #11

How many votes shy was Andrew Johnson from being impeached by the Democrats and Republicans?

A Four

B One

C Two

D Seven

Question #12

Which event resulted in the passage of the Reconstruction Act of 1867?

A Ulysses S. Grant was elected president.

B Andrew Johnson won another term as President

C Railroad lines were constructed in southern states.

D The southern states failed to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment

Question #13

From Figure 16.6, showing Hiester Clymer’s campaign poster, what portrayal is the poster trying to convey?

A That African Americans are violent

B That African Americans are fighting for the Union

C That African Americans want to go home

D That African Americans are idle and lazy

Question #14

On April 14, 1865, the Confederate supporter and well-known actor _________ shot Lincoln while he was attending a play, Our American Cousin, at Ford’s Theater in Washington. The president died the next day.

A Currier Ives

B Clara Harris

C Major Henry R. Rathbone

D John Wilkes Booth

Question #15

Among other stipulations, the Wade-Davis Bill called for a majority of voters and government officials in Confederate states to take an oath, called the…?

A American Oath

B Confederate Oath

C Ironclad Oath

D Union Oath

Question #16

The Black Codes were designed to do which of the following?

A To preserve the pre-war status of African-Americans

B The give African-Americans their own legal system

C To give African-Americans the opportunity to support themselves

D To ensure that African-Americans received the same rights as other citizens

Question #17

After the U.S. Civil War, northern and southern moderates both viewed which of the following as a chief goal?

A Expanding west for new settlement

B Creating economic progress

C Establishing peace and order

D Encouraging equal civil rights

Question #18

Which agency was founded as a result of the Reconstruction effort?

A The Reintegration Bureau

B The Office of Economic Opportunity

C The Resettlement Administration

D The Freedmen’s Bureau

Question #19

Which of the following did Abraham Lincoln propose as a means of reintegrating the former Confederate states back into the Union after the U.S. Civil War?

A The Wade-Davis Bill

B The Enforcement Acts

C The Ten Percent Plan

D Emancipation Proclamation

Question #20

Which statement best describes the underlying reason for Andrew Johnson’s impeachment?

A He openly mocked Lincoln after his unfortunate assassination

B He showed leniency towards the former Confederate states after the Civil War.

C He refused to show support for constitutional amendments to protect freed slaves.

D He appointed corrupt cabinet members and ignored their illegal activities.

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