HIST 104 News

I've noticed a couple of events that would be good ones for filling the Cultural Currents assignment.

7:30pm Thursday 8 March, Beckwith Recital Hall (in Reinecke, the music building): David Mills, "Cold War in a Cold Land: Fighting Communism in North Dakota," a presentation of his Remele Fellowship research.

7:00pm Thursday 22 March, Birkland Alumni Lounge, Concordia College: Sonja Wentling, "Prologue to Genocide or Epilogue to War? American Perspectives on the Jewish Question in Poland, 1919-21." This is the Tri-College History Lecture. (Yes, it's at Concordia, but NDSU is a co-sponsor of the event, and so it counts for the assignment.)

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Two of the following will appear on the exam on Thursday.

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. Tocqueville writes of the possibility of an "aristocracy of manufactures" in American democracy. Do you see such an aristocracy shaping up in the late 19th and early 20th century in America?

The following MC questions are compiled from the card responses in class. At least seven of them will appear on the exam on Thursday.

With what country did the U.S. have an immigration policy known as the Gentlemen's Agreement?

A. Ireland
B. Japan
C. China
D. Italy

What device of business consolidation had separate but similar companies trade a few members of their board of directors?

A. Interlocking directorate
B. Trust
C. Holding company
D. Pool

What form of business consolidation strives to take over all stages of production, from raw materials to retail?

A. Horizontal consolidation
B. Absolute consolidation
C. Vertical consolidation
D. Complete consolidation

What company did John D. Rockefeller found?

A. Standard Oil
B. U.S. Steel
C. The Holding Company
D. Western Union

Who drilled the first commercial oil well?

A. J.D. Rockefeller
B. J.P. Morgan
C. Andrew Carnegie
D. Edwin Drake

When only a few companies control an industry, they are considered to be

A. a monopoly
B. a trust
C. an oligopoly
D. a binopoly

Who described historically the idea of successive frontiers?

A. Walter Webb
B. Joseph McCoy
C. Ranald Mackenzie
D. Frederick Jackson Turner


Who founded the cattle town of Abilene?

A. Joseph McCoy
B. Frederick Jackson Turner
C. Walter Webb
D. Samuel Gompers

A common but erroneous belief in the late 1800s was that planting trees would

A. decrease the amount of locusts
B. increase rainfall
C. increase animal populations
D. provide more fertile land

Samuel Gompers is best known for what?

A. Creating the Bessemer process
B. Becoming the richest man in the world after Andrew Carnegie
C. Founding the American Federation of Labor
D. Discovering oil at Spindletop

When was the high point of immigration?

A. 1870s
B. 1880s
C. 1890s
D. 1900s

Which political party was a byproduct of the Farmer's Alliance?

A. Republican
B. Socialist
C. Democratic
D. Populist

What was the effect of Munn. v. Illinois?

A. Regulation of certain private businesses for the public good
B. Nationalization of railroads,
C. Nationalization of grain elevators
D. Elimination of middle men for farmers

Who started the Grange?

A. Oliver Hudson Kelly
B. James B. Weaver
C. Samuel Gompers
D. Andrew Carnegie

Who did the Populists nominate for president in 1892?

A. Samuel Gompers
B. Oliver Hudson Kelley
C. Edward Munn
D. James Weaver

Here are a couple of events it would be easy to relate to TQ for filling the CC assignment.

7:00 PM Tuesday 20 February, MU Ballroom: Author Jean Kilbourne, "Deadly Persuasion: Advertising and Addiction."

10:00 AM Wednesday 28 February, MU Century Theater: Washington Governor Christine Gregoire, "Invisible No More: The Growing Influence of Women in Politics."

Both events are part of Women's Week at NDSU.

History Club and Phi Alpha Theta present Cold Mountain, an Oscar-winning Civil War epic, on Saturday, February 10, at 1:45 p.m. in FLC 122. The event is free and open to all students. Dr. Claire Strom, professor of history, will introduce the movie and lead a discussion afterwards.