US.01, US.02, US.03

Question 1

1862 law that gave 160 acres of land in the West to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years.

Answer 1

Homestead Act

Question 2

rail link between the eastern and the western United States.

Answer 2

Transcontinental Railroad

Question 3

public lands where Native Americans were forced to live by the federal government.

Answer 3

reservations

Question 4

to be absorbed into the main culture of a society.

Answer 4

assimilation

Question 5

schools that taught Native American children the “American way of life”, enforcing assimilation and adopt of the dominant culture.

Answer 5

boarding schools

Question 6

1887 law that divided reservation land into private family plots.

Answer 6

Dawes Act

Question 7

segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction.

Answer 7

Jim Crow laws

Question 8

hanging someone for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial; mostly black males

Answer 8

lynching

Question 9

the state of being deprived of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote.

Answer 9

disenfranchisement

Question 10

former slave and American activist and businessman best known for his role in establishing African American settlements in Kansas.

Answer 10

Benjamin “Pap” Singleton

Question 11

African Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the Civil War.

Answer 11

Exodusters

Question 12

landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.

Answer 12

Plessy v. Ferguson