history questions

[Monkeyville05]

3. Who would be least likely to join the Ku Klux Klan?
a. a southern democrat
b. a former slave owner
c. a confederate officer
d. a confederate soldier
e. a scalawag

4. By “counting coup,” native warriors earned respect by:
a. raping and pillaging the enemy’s village.
b. stealing their rival’s horses.
c. confronting the enemy at very close range but not resorting to obscene violence.
d. hunting of buffalo on the Great Plains.
e. proving one’s mathematical intelligence.

5. An American force commanded by George A. Custer was overwhelmed during the:
a. Battle of the Little Bighorn.
b. Battle of the Rosebud.
c. Battle of Wounded Knee.
d. Battle of One Hundred Slain.
e. Sand Creek Massacre.

6. East finally met West on May 10, 1869 when the transcontinental railroad was completed.
a. True
b. False

7. The American cowboy owes much of its culture and tradition to Mexican vaqueros.
a. True
b. False

8. By 1900, the United States emerged as an industrial superpower because:
a. it witnessed an increase in natural reproduction.
b. of record levels of immigration.
c. it contained huge quantities of coal.
d. it possessed plentiful supplies of raw materials, such as cotton and wood.
e. all of the above

9. An example of vertical integration was:
a. John Rockefeller’s mergers with other oil companies.
b. Andrew Carnegie’s belief in helping his working-class laborers.
c. Gustavas Swift’s control of all aspects of meat-packing.
d. J.P. Morgan’s belief in the “gospel of wealth.”
e. none of the above

10. Identify the entrepreneur who is not properly linked to their industry.
a. John D. Rockefeller: oil
b. Andrew Carnegie: steel
c. Gustavus Swift: railroads
d. James B. Duke: tobacco
e. Cyrus McCormick: farm equipment

11. By 1900, one-third of all manufacturing was controlled by:
a. 1 percent.
b. 5 percent.
c. 10 percent.
d. 25 percent.
e. 44 percent.

12. The term “Great Migration” refers to the:
a. thousands of Mexicans who entered the United States across the Rio Grande River.
b. mass movement of American blacks from the rural South to the urban North.
c. recruitment of Jewish workers by agents of American industrialists.
d. westward expansion of ethnic workers from eastern and southern Europe.
e. none of the above

[jackthehat]

Weren't you paying attention in class?

[sandyRoe]

4 C
5 A
7 A

[Clanad]

3. e
4. c
5. a
6. a (At Promentory Point, Utah with the "Golden Spike")
7. a
8. e
9. b
10. c (Swift was a meat packer)
11. a
12. b (Between 1916 and 1970)

[MarkRae]

> 7. The American cowboy owes much of its culture and tradition to Mexican vaqueros.

That's a totally unanswerable question! Was there only one type of American cowboy? Were they all the same? How can you quantify "much" in terms of culture?

[DrFilth]

question 3

e, scallywag

[Clanad]

The culture of the American cowboy was and to a certain extent still is the same within itself. The equipment used certainly had its origin with the Vaquero... from the sombrero to the "10 gallon" hat, from the saddle style to the "chaps" to the pointy toed, high heeled boots, to the spurs...

I (living here in the heart of cowboy country in the western U.S.) see remnants of the vaquero "style" even today in the spurs...

The original cattle drive from Texas north to Kansas was by Oliver Goodnight, but an earlier drive went east and was led by Francisco Garcia...

One has to differentiate between the "stockman"... the working cowboy involved with the management of livestock and the "rodeo" cowboy, who, by and large are professional athletes who may or may not come from ranch country. Often they are students at colleges that have rodeo "teams".

[factor-fiction]

C B A C B A C B A C B A ?

[cato154115]

all of the above