US History Cumulative Exam Review
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After the Civil War, Southern governments passed laws called Black Codes that ✔✔restricted
the rights of African Americans.
Which of the following best describes an enclave? ✔✔a distinct group that lived or worked
together within a larger community
What was Upton Sinclair's main purpose in writing The Jungle? ✔✔to arouse public sympathy
for slaughterhouse workers
What helped immigrants in the 1800s and early 1900s retain their cultures? ✔✔living in enclaves
Which of the following did Emma Hart Willard accomplish in 1826? ✔✔She founded the first
all-girls high school in the US.
What impact did Sinclair's book have on the era of Progressive reform? ✔✔The Jungle showed
that if the public was informed about a certain issue, it had the power to demand reform from the
government.
, While anarchists became linked with violence in the late 1800s and early 1900s, socialists
became linked with ✔✔the labor movement
Under the Dawes Act, the reservation land not allotted to American Indians was sold ✔✔to
white settlers and railroad companies.
Read the quotation from Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery.
"No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was
recognized and protected for years by the General Government. Having once got its tentacles
fastened on to the economic and social life of the Republic, it was no easy matter for the country
to relieve itself of the institution."
On which point would Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois agree? ✔✔Slavery has lasting and
extensive effects on every aspect of American society.
The Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision ruled that Louisiana's Separate Car Act
✔✔helped maintain public peace and good order.
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After the Civil War, Southern governments passed laws called Black Codes that ✔✔restricted
the rights of African Americans.
Which of the following best describes an enclave? ✔✔a distinct group that lived or worked
together within a larger community
What was Upton Sinclair's main purpose in writing The Jungle? ✔✔to arouse public sympathy
for slaughterhouse workers
What helped immigrants in the 1800s and early 1900s retain their cultures? ✔✔living in enclaves
Which of the following did Emma Hart Willard accomplish in 1826? ✔✔She founded the first
all-girls high school in the US.
What impact did Sinclair's book have on the era of Progressive reform? ✔✔The Jungle showed
that if the public was informed about a certain issue, it had the power to demand reform from the
government.
, While anarchists became linked with violence in the late 1800s and early 1900s, socialists
became linked with ✔✔the labor movement
Under the Dawes Act, the reservation land not allotted to American Indians was sold ✔✔to
white settlers and railroad companies.
Read the quotation from Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery.
"No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was
recognized and protected for years by the General Government. Having once got its tentacles
fastened on to the economic and social life of the Republic, it was no easy matter for the country
to relieve itself of the institution."
On which point would Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois agree? ✔✔Slavery has lasting and
extensive effects on every aspect of American society.
The Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson decision ruled that Louisiana's Separate Car Act
✔✔helped maintain public peace and good order.
