Maryville HIST122 Week 2 Quiz Latest 2022

Question 1This law was designed by people who wanted to bring the reservation system to an end and eventually integrate American Indians into the general US population.  Toward that end, this law divided reservation lands into individual plots for families.

The Volstead Act

The Enabling Act

The Homestead Act

The Dawes Act

 Question 2This individual wrote extensively about his journeys into the mountains and forests of California.  His work inspired the modern environmentalist movement.

Rupert Murdoch

Gifford Pinchot

John Muir

Question 3 This Sioux Indian was sent to a boarding school by his father.  There he was educated as a doctor, and he served as a doctor on the Pine Ridge Reservation for the rest of his life.

Anthony Johnson

Charles Eastman

Geronimo

Lone Elk

 Question 4This individual wrote the influential book The Influence of Sea Power Upon History in 1890. 

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Rutherford B. Hayes

Franklin Roosevelt

Charles Eastman

 Question 5How did American cities accommodate the large number of people who moved to the cities?

All of these

Electrified streetcars

Elevated Trains

Subway lines

Question 6What did “checkerboarding” mean for American Indian reservations?

It was a new game developed on reservations

A problem in which reservations by 1934 were noncontiguous.

The term referred to the political divided loyalties of Native Americans by 1947. About half identified as Republican and half as Democrats.

It was the name of a scam common in the late nineteenth century. It was a bit like a pyramid scheme today.

Question 7The Census Bureau in 1890 declared what?

That only 1/4 of Americans voted

That the frontier was closed

That only white men would be counted in that year’s count

 Question 8Opened in 1893, this railway station was billed as the largest in the world by those who promoted it. 

Penn Station

St. Louis Union Station

Atlanta Junction Center

Chicago Railway Depot

 Question 9What was a “ghetto?”

A derogatory racial term used to describe immigrants from Poland

A section of a city inhabited by people who shared cultural, religious, or national similarities

A special wagon used to transport urban Americans in a rapid way across the city

A body of land surrounded on three sides by water

 Question 10 The explosion of this American ship was the spark that sent William McKinley to Congress in order to ask for a declaration of war against Spain.

USS Missouri

USS Abraham Lincoln

USS Monitor

USS Maine