11th Grad Social Issues Quiz 1

What group of people were killed at Wounded Knee?

• United States Calvary

• Cherokee

• Lakota

• Navajo

What happened because of the Dawes Act

• Created Land Grant Colleges

• Divided reservations into small family plots

• Allowed people to apply for a homestead

• Outlawed the Ku Klux Klan

Andrew Carnegie wrote the Gospel fo Wealth

• True

• False

What is Nativism?

• Another word for patriotism

• A movement that pushed for ethnic identifiers such as Italian American or African American

• People who worked to keep immigrants out of the United States

• Idea that only the best humans survive and that society naturally gets better

What law kept Chinese people from immigrating to the Untied States?

• Chinese Internment Act

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

What did the Ku Klux Klan do?

• Attacked Republicans and African Americans at night 

• Sent Democrats to the North to run for political office

• Helped feed, clothe, employee, and educate former slaves

• Collect sin taxes for the federal government 

According to Lester Frank Ward, what was the purpose of government?

• Help businesses make money

• The government should not exist

• Make society better

• Keep the wealthy from having to pay high tariffs

The Social Gospel movement helped better conditions in cities according to ideas they took from the Bible

• True

• False

Who popularized settlement houses?

• Henry George

• Lester Frank Ward

• Jane Addams

• Grover Cleveland

What is the name of the process through which immigrant children learned to be American at school?

• Radicalization

• Galvanism

• Americanization

• Darwinism