USVA Review Quiz: Part 2 Civil War to Industrialization

Question 1

The process where immigrants blend into the "melting pot" of American by learning our customs?

Accepted Answer

Assimilation

Question 2

This amendment freed the slaves after the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

13th Amendment

Question 3

After the Battle of Antietam, President Lincoln issued this?

Accepted Answer

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 4

The completion of this encouraged settlers to go West after the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Transcontinental Railroad

Question 5

This plan was proposed by Lincoln for Reconstruction, and emphasized treating the South well?

Accepted Answer

The 10 Percent Plan

Question 6

The term for when the American government takes a hands-off policy toward the economy?

Accepted Answer

Laissez-faire Capitalism

Question 7

The place in the Eastern United States where many immigrants entered the country?

Accepted Answer

Ellis Island

Question 8

This legislation in 1862 gave free land in the West to people who would farm the land?

Accepted Answer

Homestead Act

Question 9

The Southern general who led the Army of Northern Virginia, and was known for smart tactics?

Accepted Answer

Robert E. Lee

Question 10

In this case, the Supreme Court ruled "separate but equal" did not violate the 14th amendment?

Accepted Answer

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Question 11

This law was an example of resentment toward immigrants?

Accepted Answer

Emergency Quota Act of 1921

Question 12

What ends Reconstruction by putting a Republican in office, and pulling troops from South?

Accepted Answer

The Compromise of 1877

Question 13

This man perfected the assembly line used in factories?

Accepted Answer

Ford

Question 14

African-Americans left the South to the North for jobs and to leave discrimination in?

Accepted Answer

The Great Migration

Question 15

This man was an oil tycoon during America's rapid industrial growth?

Accepted Answer

Rockefeller

Question 16

This man said the way to African-American equality was vocal education and economic success?

Accepted Answer

Booker T. Washington

Question 17

These two cities in the South were destroyed by the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Richmond and Atlanta

Question 18

This group believed in Reconstruction that would guarantee civil and voting rights to blacks?

Accepted Answer

Radical Republicans

Question 19

The former slave who became a leader of the abolitionists and advised Northern presidents?

Accepted Answer

Frederick Douglass

Question 20

This man formed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?

Accepted Answer

W.E.B. Dubois

Question 21

Southern whites used these laws to restrict African-American freedom after the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow Laws

Question 22

The name for when the Southern states left the United States?

Accepted Answer

Secession

Question 23

Before 1871, most immigrants came from?

Accepted Answer

Northern and Western Europe

Question 24

This battle started the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

Fort Sumter

Question 25

These immigrants helped build the Transcontinental Railroad?

Accepted Answer

Chinese

Question 26

When workers protest by not working and doing demonstrations, it is called?

Accepted Answer

A strike

Question 27

After this battle in the North, the South's army was in decline?

Accepted Answer

Gettysburg

Question 28

This man was a railroad tycoon during America's rapid industrial growth?

Accepted Answer

Vanderbilt

Question 29

This amendment gave voting rights to former slaves?

Accepted Answer

15th Amendment

Question 30

The name for people who wanted to end slavery prior and during the Civil War is?

Accepted Answer

Abolitionists

Question 31

The abolitionist who led the raid on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry was?

Accepted Answer

John Brown

Question 32

From 1871 to 1921, most immigrants come from?

Accepted Answer

Southern and Eastern Europe

Question 33

These were used to keep African-Americans from voting?

Accepted Answer

Literacy tests and poll taxes

USVA Review Quiz: Part 2 Civil War to Industrialization

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USVA Review Quiz: Part 2 Civil War to Industrialization

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