HIST 104 News

A couple of outstanding opportunities for fulfilling the Cultural Currents assignment are coming up. At 7:00 Tuesday evening 5 April Professor Don Schwert will present the annual Faculty Lecture. This is a prestigious event, and Schwert is one of our finest scholars and teachers. His topic: "A City on Stilts: The Geology Under Fargo." I'm going; it's in MU Century Theater. Coming up soon is the Little Country Theater production of Marcus Is Walking. It runs 24-27 February. For more information go to the Fine Arts Calendar page.

Two of the following three questions will appear on the exam; you are to write on one of the two.

1. Tocqueville provides certain impressions about the American character in his remarks on "the habitual intercourse" of Americans and on their preference for "practical science" rather than theoretical. Can you explain these American traits in terms of the ideas of Frederick Jackson Turner?

2. How may Tocqueville's key concept of "the tyranny of the majority" be applied to the story of immigration and nativism during the late 1800s and early 1900s?

3. Consider the lives of these two leaders of industrial America, Andrew Carnegie and Samuel Gompers, and answer this question: Was Tocqueville right in what he said about an aristocracy of manufactures?

Five of the following six questions, harvested from the cards, will appear on the upcoming exam.

Who revolutionized the American steel industry and became the world's first billionaire by implementing the Bessemer Process?
a. J.P. Morgan
b. John D. Rockefeller
c. Samuel Gompers
d. Andrew Carnegie

The "Gentlemen's Agreement" of 1907 was secretly concluded between the US and which other country?
a. Japan
b. Russia
c. Mexico
d. China

Which president struck a blow to nativists such as Henry Cabot Lodge by vetoing a Literacy Test bill aimed at restricting immigration to the US?
a. Theodore Roosevelt
b. Grover Cleveland
c. William McKinley
d. Chester Arthur

What term refers to the migration of large numbers of African Americans from the South to the North around the time of and after World War I?
a. Ghettoization
b. Harlem Renaissance
c. Freedom Rides
d. The Great Migration

What was the primary cause of the near-extinction of the buffalo in the late 19th Century?
a. Sport hunting
b. Extensive commercial harvesting
c. Disease
d. Exploitation by Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show

In the field of history, a first-hand historical account is known as a _______ source.
a. reliable
b. secondary
c. dubious
d. primary

A slide in the last lecture referred by image to the Haymarket incident. Jeff passes along this link to a site summarizing the tragic events of 1886.

http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/disasters/haymarket.html

Because I'll be making a fun-filled trip to Brandon, Manitoba, after class today, I won't be keeping office hours on Wednesday or Thursday. I will be back for class on Thursday, however.