HIST 104 News
This weblog carries news, announcements, and guidance for students in Prof. Isern's section of HIST 104.Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Lecture Outline
Recognizing that the lecture outline used yesterday by Dr. Ronnander was a little faint on-screen, I'm providing a PDF of it here: Ronnander.pdf
Events Upcoming
Here are some more that would make likely candidates for the cultural currents assignment.
3:30pm Friday 29 February in Loftsgard 114: Elias M. Elias and others addressing the Plant Sciences seminar on the subject, "The Future of North Dakota Agriculture"
7:00pm Wednesday 19 March in Beckwith Recital Hall: Christina Weber presents "Missing Voices: Women's Experiences in War and Combat"
3:30pm Friday 29 February in Loftsgard 114: Elias M. Elias and others addressing the Plant Sciences seminar on the subject, "The Future of North Dakota Agriculture"
7:00pm Wednesday 19 March in Beckwith Recital Hall: Christina Weber presents "Missing Voices: Women's Experiences in War and Combat"
Monday, February 25, 2008
Exam 1 Scores
Friday, February 22, 2008
Makeup Test and Papers
My apologies to those who intended to take the makeup exam on Friday the 22nd. I must have misunderstood the time, since I reserved a room for 3pm and nobody showed up. Sorry too if you have tried to email me in the last couple days. I will work to keep open space on my account, but if your emails ever fail to go through, feel free to contact me at my regular NDSU address: jeff.armstrong@ndsu.edu If you have submitted a paper and not received a grade, please resend it directly to me and I will let you know your score.
Friday, February 08, 2008
Test 1 Questions
At least five of these questions will appear on the first test. Good luck, and remember the test review is on Tuesday.
As defined in this course, a myth is
a. a factually accurate story
b. a stern symbolic warning
c. an important story which helps us understand ourselves
d. a distraction from serious study
Who used the metaphor of a pontoon bridge to characterize the provisional nature of history?
a. E.H. Carr
b. B.B. King
c. W.P. Webb
d. Wallace Stegner
Frederick Jackson Turner is known as founder of what historical theory?
a. economic determinism
b. environmental determinism
c. successive frontiers
d. class conflict
The Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887 was an instrument of what federal Indian policy?
a. extermination
b. concentration
c. assimilation
d. removal
The common 19th century notion that Indian peoples would vanish from the earth after encountering a supposedly superior white civilization is known as
a. the invisible hand
b. cultural hegemony
c. physical genocide
d. fatal contact
What U.S. Army colonel and Methodist preacher led an 1864 attack on the village of Sand Creek, Colorado, that led to one of the worst massacres of the Indian wars?
a. John Chivington
b. George Custer
c. Stephen Kearny
d. Zachary Taylor
The street running parallel to the railroad in T-towns was commonly named
a. Broadway
b. Main
c. Center
d. Northern Pacific
The transcontinental railroad first became a reality in 1869, when the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met at what place?
a. Abilene
b. Lincoln
c. Salt Lake City
d. Promontory Point
Which historian stressed the importance of adaptation to the environment of the Great Plains, noting the significance of such innovations as barbed wire?
a. Herodotus
b. Frederick Jackson Turner
c. William McNeill
d. Walter P. Webb
As defined in this course, a myth is
a. a factually accurate story
b. a stern symbolic warning
c. an important story which helps us understand ourselves
d. a distraction from serious study
Who used the metaphor of a pontoon bridge to characterize the provisional nature of history?
a. E.H. Carr
b. B.B. King
c. W.P. Webb
d. Wallace Stegner
Frederick Jackson Turner is known as founder of what historical theory?
a. economic determinism
b. environmental determinism
c. successive frontiers
d. class conflict
The Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887 was an instrument of what federal Indian policy?
a. extermination
b. concentration
c. assimilation
d. removal
The common 19th century notion that Indian peoples would vanish from the earth after encountering a supposedly superior white civilization is known as
a. the invisible hand
b. cultural hegemony
c. physical genocide
d. fatal contact
What U.S. Army colonel and Methodist preacher led an 1864 attack on the village of Sand Creek, Colorado, that led to one of the worst massacres of the Indian wars?
a. John Chivington
b. George Custer
c. Stephen Kearny
d. Zachary Taylor
The street running parallel to the railroad in T-towns was commonly named
a. Broadway
b. Main
c. Center
d. Northern Pacific
The transcontinental railroad first became a reality in 1869, when the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met at what place?
a. Abilene
b. Lincoln
c. Salt Lake City
d. Promontory Point
Which historian stressed the importance of adaptation to the environment of the Great Plains, noting the significance of such innovations as barbed wire?
a. Herodotus
b. Frederick Jackson Turner
c. William McNeill
d. Walter P. Webb
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Essay Possibilities
Two of these will appear on the exam, and you will write on one.
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Test Review
I've scheduled a Test Review session for 7:30pm Tuesday, Feb. 12 at 136 Minard (across the hall from the regular classroom). Please come prepared with questions. I hope to see you all there. The test will be held on the next class period, Feb. 14. Watch this space for test and essay questions you will encounter on the exam.
Jeff Armstrong
Jeff Armstrong
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