History of the Americas Questions

What legislation called for large areas of tribal land to be broken up into small plots that would be owned by individual Native Americans?

What invention led to the end of the open range?

Which of these groups fought each other in range wars?

Which animal was central to the Plains Indians' way of life but was hunted almost to extinction by white settlers?

What clause of the Treaty of Versailles significantly damaged the German economy and led to hyperinflation?

During Reconstruction, which political party was supported by the Ku Klux Klan and the White League?

the unregulated exchange of goods and services

What legislation was passed in order to protect African American voters from groups like the Ku Klux Klan?

a system in which the governments led by a small elite few controlled all the economic and political life

According to the Fifteenth Amendment, which of these factors cannot be used to deny U.S. citizens the right to vote?

Which group were the Reconstruction Amendments intended to protect?

What ideology took hold in Russia, directly leading to the Russian Revolution?

a journey undertaken for a special purpose

In 1867, the United States purchased the present-day state of Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. Arranged by the United States Secretary of State, William Seward

Which of these places became the center of African American communities after the Civil War?

Why were freedmen eager to attend the schools created by the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction?

Which of these describes how African traditions were incorporated into the many new churches that freedmen organized after the Civil War?

the formal giving up of territory by a government

Which of these made it possible for hundreds of African Americans to be elected to political office in the 1870s?

Which of these people paid rent to a landowner to raise crops and lived on the landowner's land, which sometimes led to them being exploited?