Lectures 52-54

1.

2 points

Someone in violation of the "Comstock Laws" would have

built barbed wire fences around their farms, preventing cattle from destroying their crops

sold alcohol either during the Sabbath, or to the Indians.

sent sexually based information through the US mail.

build a dam or otherwise have prevented water from flowing to their neighbor's land.

2.

1 point

Because middle-class men did office work rather than farming or heavy labor, they were in danger of becoming "soft." The YMCA, founded in Britain in the 1840s, pioneered "_______________." Its foremost proponent was Theodore Roosevelt.

muscular Christianity

exercise and diet

balancing work and family life

music and the Bible

3.

1 point

The Homestead Act, passed during the Civil War in 1862, encouraged ordinary farmers to acquire land at almost no cost, and those who could overcome the loneliness, prairie fires, insect infestations, extremes of climate, and incessant winds were able to build prosperous lives. The Act

forced the treasury to go bankrupt, causing a financial crisis unparalleled since 1837.

was heralded as a "a monumental step" toward women's rights, for it enabled women to hold land if their husbands died.

granted a 160-acre quarter section to any family that occupied and improved the land for five years.

granted citizenship to anyone willing to live on and farm the land.

4.

1 point

John Wesley Powell's Report on the Arid Regions (1878) suggested a new approach to land use in the High Plains and Great Basin. The key commodity was

air quality

land

livestock and feed

water

5.

1 point

The majority of African Americans became sharecropping farmers. This meant they

could not own land, and shared the risk of farming with their former masters

were not subject to Jim Crow Laws

were more heavily taxed by the federal government

rented land from estate owners in return for a share of the crop.

6.

1 point

Jim Crow legislation

was deemed unconstitutional in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

was an idea borrowed from Horace Greeley

denied women the vote

denied African Americans the vote

7.

1 point

When Reconstruction ended in 1876, southern "Redeemers," often ex-Confederates, took over political control of the South. They promoted the idea of the New South, modern and industrialized. But it was still a South

based very heavily on racial discrimination

largely bowed in defeat, without much spirit or the means to support itself

without much education or common culture

that was at the mercy of the Radical Republican

8.

1 point

Middle-class Americans, men and women, emphasized the differences between the two sexes in the late 19"' century, in the belief that each of the sexes had its own special proper sphere of activity. Men—muscular, rational, intellectual—should

work hard in the outside world.

equally share household responsibilities.

create the home as a haven of peace, love, and security.

remain aloof from outside pressures and problems, and hire servants to complete their responsibilities.

9.

2 points

Southern agriculture, in contrast to the West, tended to remain technologically stagnant. This was principally because:

tenant or sharecropping farmers had little incentive to improve techniques or the land

most farmers in the South were illiterate

there were no "Land Grant Colleges" in the South

Plantation owners cared little for the land, and were more interested in controlling the political process

10.

1 point

The first group of Americans to experiment with irrigation farming in a systematic way was the

Mormon settlers of Salt Lake City

the Puritan's, under the leadership of Miles Standish

the Donner family

the Corps of Discovery

11.

1 point

Settlers, from back East and from abroad, had to overcome several formidable hardships of Plains farming. These hardships included all of the following except:

grasshoppers thrived on settlers' crops and sometimes destroyed entire districts

the lack of wood created a need for enormous quantities of buffalo chips to keep warm

Isolation and loneliness

Windows and doors often had to be ordered from Sears, Roebuck

lack of refrigeration forced them to build community ice houses

the lack of wood forced them to build sod houses

Prairie fires also regularly swept the Plains

Plains winters were extremely harsh

Variations in rainfall

12.

1 point

Massachusetts-born W. E. B. Dubois (1868-1963) stressed
the double consciousness of African Americans, and favored

accommodation to segregation.

the intensive education of the "talented tenth'' and a policy of "ceaseless agitation" against segregation.

waiting for the federal government to take the lead in solving the African American's plight.

a program of migration to Canada, where slavery's racism had not been inculcated into the culture.

13.

1 point

Middle-class Americans, men and women, emphasized the differences between the two sexes in the late 19"' century, in the belief that each of the sexes had its own special proper sphere of activity Women—delicate, intuitive, religious—should

create the home as a haven of peace, love, and security.

remain aloof from outside pressures and problems, and hire servants to complete their responsibilities.

work hard in the outside world.

equally share household responsibilities.

14.

1 point

Rapid improvements in farm machinery made Plains farming possible. These improvements included all of the following except:

great grain elevators

the double seated tractor

the hard steel blade of the John Deere plow

the McCormick reaper

15.

2 points

The phrase "In God We Trusted, in Kansas we Busted" referred to

Christians who found fertile evangelical ground in Kansas

those who, failing in Kansas, continued West to seek their fortunes

failed settlers or farmers who returned East

farmers who "busted" ground or sod in Kansas

16.

1 point

Why was the railroad important for large-scale settlement and farming of the Plains?

the railroads allowed for the inexpensive transportation of large-scale equipment, vital for farming.

The railroads made it possible for the settlers and farmers to import workers from Europe and China.

the Plains lacked wood, which was vital for fuel and building materials

the railroad could quickly move large numbers of troops to help protect settlers.

17.

1 point

Black leaders debated the most suitable reaction to these appalling circumstances. Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) favored

a program of migration to Canada, where slavery's racism had not been inculcated into the culture.

the intensive education of the "talented tenth'' and a policy of "ceaseless agitation" against segregation.

accommodation to segregation.

waiting for the federal government to take the lead in solving the African American's plight.

18.

2 points

"White Life" referred to

goals of African Americans, who sought to live the good or white lifestyle.

the vision of the KKK, seeking white supremacy

men who promised to have sexual relations only within their marriage, and then only for procreation.

outcasts, usually drug addicts, who engaged in crimes of violence and thievery to support themselves.