1. What was the purpose of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890?

A.
They privatized the Ivy League schools.

B.
They required the opening of women’s colleges.

C.
They set aside land and money for affordable land-grant colleges.

D.
They encouraged hiring teachers with specific subject knowledge.

2. What was a pull factor for European immigrants in the late 1800s?

A.
crop failures on European farms

B.
factory jobs in American cities

C.
literacy requirements in the U.S.

D.
religious persecution in Europe

3. What was key to the Supreme Court's argument in the verdict of the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case?

A.
equal protection under the law

B.
the doctrine of separate but equal

C.
the collapse of Reconstruction governments

D.
the constitutionality of voting for all citizens