Question

Can someone check my answers for these multiple choice questions please? I'll give a medal! Thank you! <3
The Lakota Sioux culture included?
A. the belief that life is a series of circles--the circles of relatives, band, tribe, and nation.
B. a belief in a hierarchy of plant and animal spirits whose help could be invoked through the Sun Dance.
C. ceremonies in which young men sacrificed themselves through self-torture to gain access to spiritual power.
D.all of these
E. none of these
I chose D.

Answer 1

Which of the following statements best describes the attitude of western state governments regarding women's suffrage
a. The believed that the West was a place where "men were men and women were women" and only men should vote
b. They believed that women had made important contributions to settlement and that woman suffrage would attract female settlers
c. They preferred to wait and see how the "experiment" of woman suffrage would work out in the more progressive eastern states
d. It was not a major concern, because there were few women in most western states
e. They refused to grant woman suffrage because they feared women would vote for prohibition, put an end to gambling and brothels, and in general "clean up the government"
I chose B.

3.The 1887 Dawes severalty act was designed to
A. treat Indians as equals to white men
B. inspire greater tribal unity
C. destroy Indian tribes by allowing greater use of force by the military
D. Undermine tribal bonds by treating Indians as individuals
E. provide Indians with the capital necessary to build a diversified economy
I chose C.

How did Horatio Alger influence end t American society?
A. He propagated the rags-to-riches idea.
B. He described the perilous conditions in factories and lobbied Congress to regulate them.
C. He organized workers into the National Labor Union.
D. He convinced many Americans that the Anglo-Saxon race was superior to all others
E. He led a movement to expand public education to include all children in the United States.
I chose A.

What did Henry George argue in “progress and poverty”?
Socialism was the answer to the end of poverty.
Industrialization led to a cycle progress for some and of poverty for others.
Industrialization was the key to progress and the end of poverty.
The government needed to fight poverty by limiting industrialization
Less federal government involvement was the key to ending poverty.
I chose D.

The salvation army was
A. a branch of the military formed to clean up the slums.
B. Christian group organized along pseudo-military lines to inculcate the urban poor with middle class values
C. a social-welfare group organization based on new ideas of gently persuading the urban poor to adopt to middle-class values
D. organized by urban immigrants to police their own ghettos.
E. Formed to employ military tactics to force poor immigrants out of respectable middle class neighborhoods.
I chose C