HIUS 222 FINAL STUDY GUIDE 2026 TESTED
QUESTIONS AND PRACTICE SOLUTION
GRADED A+
◉ Freedmen's bureau.
Answer: Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves
to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and
helped them get jobs
◉ African Americans in Reconstruction.
Answer: Initially gained freedom, but were restricted by whites.
Eventually, southerners regained control of congress in 1870's
◉ Nathan B. Forrest.
Answer: 1866- confederate general founded the Klu Klux Klan-
terrorist acts to put fear into blacks to enforce white power; Grand
Wizard of the KKK
◉ Collapse of reconstruction.
Answer: RB Hayes ends republican reconstruction plan, pulls out
soldiers and pardons confederates. The reconstruction was a failure
and southerners never forgave.
,◉ Jim Crow Era.
Answer: (1877-1969) Segregation reigned. Blacks got the lesser
stuff. Vagrancy laws were enacted. Grandfather clause-if your
grandfather could not vote, neither could you. Literacy tests to vote,
or poll fees.
◉ Plessy V. Ferguson.
Answer: a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state
ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites
were equal..formed in KT
◉ Culture of the Plains Indians.
Answer: the horse, the buffalo, the extended family and nomadic..
Sioux Indians, Cheyenne, Crow Comanche, Dakota and Shariah.
White guys started killing buffalo and taking their land. 5-50 million
Indians lived out west
◉ Great Plains.
Answer: Not rainy, few trees, few water roots, dry, dusty, severe cold
and heat, snow and rain.
◉ Buffalo.
Answer: Used to be 15-20 million. Diminished to only 1000.
, ◉ Settlers push west.
Answer: Indians believed land could not be owned, but whites
thought that land ownership was the key to wealth. East got more
crowded to they headed west. Confederates needed a new start.
Wagon trains first brought pioneers to the west
◉ Homestead act of 1862.
Answer: (Lincoln singed) , Act that allowed a settler to acquire as
much as 160 acres of land by living on it for 5 years, improving it,
and paying a nominal fee of about $30 - instead of public land being
sold primarily for revenue, it was now being given away to
encourage a rapid filling of empty spaces and to provide a stimulus
to the family farm.
◉ transcontinental railroad (union pacific).
Answer: a railroad that connected the eastern United States to the
western United States. The railroad firmly bonded the West Coast
the Union, created a trade route to the far-east, and helped the
western expansion
◉ Women in the old west.
Answer: Lived in sod houses, threats of Indian and coyote attacks,
people aged rapidly in the west. Women had better equality and
opportunity in the west.
QUESTIONS AND PRACTICE SOLUTION
GRADED A+
◉ Freedmen's bureau.
Answer: Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves
to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and
helped them get jobs
◉ African Americans in Reconstruction.
Answer: Initially gained freedom, but were restricted by whites.
Eventually, southerners regained control of congress in 1870's
◉ Nathan B. Forrest.
Answer: 1866- confederate general founded the Klu Klux Klan-
terrorist acts to put fear into blacks to enforce white power; Grand
Wizard of the KKK
◉ Collapse of reconstruction.
Answer: RB Hayes ends republican reconstruction plan, pulls out
soldiers and pardons confederates. The reconstruction was a failure
and southerners never forgave.
,◉ Jim Crow Era.
Answer: (1877-1969) Segregation reigned. Blacks got the lesser
stuff. Vagrancy laws were enacted. Grandfather clause-if your
grandfather could not vote, neither could you. Literacy tests to vote,
or poll fees.
◉ Plessy V. Ferguson.
Answer: a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state
ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites
were equal..formed in KT
◉ Culture of the Plains Indians.
Answer: the horse, the buffalo, the extended family and nomadic..
Sioux Indians, Cheyenne, Crow Comanche, Dakota and Shariah.
White guys started killing buffalo and taking their land. 5-50 million
Indians lived out west
◉ Great Plains.
Answer: Not rainy, few trees, few water roots, dry, dusty, severe cold
and heat, snow and rain.
◉ Buffalo.
Answer: Used to be 15-20 million. Diminished to only 1000.
, ◉ Settlers push west.
Answer: Indians believed land could not be owned, but whites
thought that land ownership was the key to wealth. East got more
crowded to they headed west. Confederates needed a new start.
Wagon trains first brought pioneers to the west
◉ Homestead act of 1862.
Answer: (Lincoln singed) , Act that allowed a settler to acquire as
much as 160 acres of land by living on it for 5 years, improving it,
and paying a nominal fee of about $30 - instead of public land being
sold primarily for revenue, it was now being given away to
encourage a rapid filling of empty spaces and to provide a stimulus
to the family farm.
◉ transcontinental railroad (union pacific).
Answer: a railroad that connected the eastern United States to the
western United States. The railroad firmly bonded the West Coast
the Union, created a trade route to the far-east, and helped the
western expansion
◉ Women in the old west.
Answer: Lived in sod houses, threats of Indian and coyote attacks,
people aged rapidly in the west. Women had better equality and
opportunity in the west.
