Deck 4: Social Welfare Policy in the 19th Century: 17891902

Question 1

As a percent of the total population, what amount of Americans lost their lives on the battlefield during the Civil War compared to World War II?

A) Less
B) The same
C) More
D) Half

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The 15th Amendment guaranteed universal suffrage to women.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

At the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848, many participants endorsed the Declaration of Sentiments modeled after the Declaration of Independence.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Anthropologists of the 19th century believed that Anglo-Saxons (Germans and the English) were biologically superior to other races when it came to intelligence and industriousness. This led to concept of manifest destiny , meaning

A) God willed Anglo-Saxons to develop the North American continent.
B) slavery was a God-given right.
C) only Anglo-Saxon children and adults should have access to education.
D) only Anglo-Saxons should hold political office.

Question 5

The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves throughout the South.

Question 6

The Compromise of 1850 admitted one state as a free state and one state as a slave state. It was developed after mutual paranoia following

A) the conquest of Mexico.
B) New England wanting high tariffs and subsidies for ships.
C) Congress proposing admitting two slave states in row.
D) asking settlers to compromise with Native Americans to avoid war.

Question 7

In the late 19th century, Jim Crow legislation was enacted by Southern states to

A) deprive African Americans of their basic civil rights.
B) help African Americans increase their basic civil rights.
C) help Native Americans obtain their tribal lands.
D) give rights to the Irish immigrants on the frontier.

Question 8

The Freedman's bureau aided the freed slaves by

A) ensuring their voting rights.
B) distributing land to newly freed slaves.
C) providing them with some educational services.
D) allowing them to purchase parts of land once owned by their masters.

Question 9

Despite the Northern desire to abolish slavery, one form of discrimination that African Americans experience in the North was being denied access to public transportation.

Question 10

The Dawes Act provided Native American's retention of their land once they accepted an individual plot. Although the act provided some protection to Native Americans, it enabled the settlers to take land from the Native Americans by

A) coercing them to sell their land for minimal prices.
B) confiscating their land by federal edict.
C) appropriating funds that settlers could use to buy Native American lands.
D) coercing the five major tribes to merge land holdings.

Question 11

Abolitionists in the 1840s were

A) unpopular in the North and South.
B) popular in the North but not the South.
C) popular in the South but not the North.
D) popular in the frontiers.

Question 12

Chinese immigrants were denied legal rights as they were considered Aliens. In fact in 1854, the California Supreme Court ruled that

A) Chinese people could not testify in court, even if they witnessed a murder of one of their own by a Caucasian person.
B) Chinese people could not do a job that a white person could do.
C) Chinese people were not allowed to organize a labor strike.
D) Chinese people were not allowed to work in mines after the Gold Rush.

Question 13

The federal government distributed land to settlers by establishing land auctions. Who profited from the auctions?

A) The federal government
B) Railroad companies
C) Speculators
D) All of these are correct.

Question 14

The labor force in the 19th century on the Western frontier was composed of the following groups with the exception of

A) slaves from the South.
B) Hispanics.
C) Asians.
D) Irish.

Question 15

The Emancipation Proclamation

A) freed all slaves.
B) declared slaves would be free once the Union won the war.
C) freed slaves in areas still in rebellion against the Union.
D) freed slaves in the frontier.

Question 16

Lessons learned from this era that remain applicable to social welfare advocacy today include

A) changing social policy requires action in both the policy and political arenas.
B) change often requires persistent pressure over long periods of time.
C) All of these are correct.
D) None of these are correct.

Question 17

In decades following the Civil War, the American industrialization accelerated

A) slowly until the 1880s.
B) rapidly in the 1870s but at a modest pace in the 1880s and 1890s.
C) rapidly.
D) inconsistently until the Spanish-American War.

Question 18

The Union Army created camps in the South for African Americans who had left plantations. Roughly, 65% of camp occupants died of disease.

Question 19

In 1832, South Carolinians threatened to secede from the Union. Which political figure intimidated South Carolina into backing down from its threats?

A) William Henry Harrison
B) Millard Fillmore
C) Andrew Jackson
D) Abraham Lincoln

Question 20

Squatters often settled the frontier lands by simply working the land without purchasing it often because they

A) could not afford to buy it.
B) were verbally promised the land.
C) were freed slaves.
D) were holding the land for someone.

Question 21

In American History, we often mark the Gilded Age as that time which started after the Civil War and lasted until the end of the 19th century.

Question 22

Empowerment strategies utilized by ethnic outgroups in the late 1800s provide current social workers and program developers with models for development of informal community-based, social support systems.

Question 23

Eugene Victor Debs, although imprisoned twice for his beliefs, advocated that Americans could never get economic justice under capitalism. Though he initially opposed strikes, he later devoted his life crusading for workers' rights and advocating socialism.

Question 24

Between 1881 and 1901, there were 37,000 strikes, which resulted in the formation of powerful unions and key court rulings in favor of these unions.

Question 25

Economic characteristics of the "Gilded Age" with a great disparity between the wealthy and the poor, a shrinking middle class and massive cartels monopolizing production of certain products greatly resemble the economic characteristics of the United States today.