Maryville HIST122 Week 1 Quiz Latest 2022

Question 1 In the summer of 1864, William T. Sherman’s army burned what city to the ground?

Atlanta

Chattanooga

New Orleans

Memphis

Question 2 What was a “McCormick’s Reaper?”

A religious figure who warned about the connection between sin and eternal damnation

A device used to harvest wheat

A device used to process rice

A scary halloween story popular in the post-war South

 Question 3 This politician from South Carolina argued that voters should view politics as a racial zero sum game.  As such, he encouraged white voters to rally together to prevent black people.

Gustavus Swift

William Randolph Hearst

Thaddeus Stevens

Ben Tillman

Question 4 After the Civil War, the US returned to the gold standard and moved away from paper money.

True

False

Question 5 This journalist wrote about the political uses of lynching in the South.  This journalist claimed that lynching was a tool to inspire fear among black residents in the South to keep them from being politically active.

Ella Baker

Edward R. Murrow

Ida B. Wells

William Randolf Hearst

 Question 6 What was social darwinism?

A way to explain why some children dominated their siblings

A social theory invented by psychiatrists to explain why some people found marriage partners while others failed

An explanation for speciation found in the animal kingdom

A way to explain why some people succeeded in industrial America while others failed

Question 7 After the death of Frederick Douglass in 1895, this individual arguably became the most prominent advocate for African American rights.  In 1895, he gave a controversial speech in Atlanta in which he called upon African Americans to “cast down their buckets” where they were. 

Booker T. Washington

Samuel Clemmons

Anthony Burns

Lemuel Hayes

 Question 8 This vice president became president in 1865 when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.

Andrew Johnson

Edwin Stanton

William McClellan

William Seward

 Question 9 Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?

A writer who specialized in tragedies. He eventually wrote several plays that became successful on Broadway

A foreign diplomat who attempted to bribe President Grover Cleveland but was arrest and executed for treason

A famous boxer

A wealthy American who struck it rich as a primary investor in the New York Central railroad company

 Question 10 Formed in 1869, this labor organization was widely known as one of the most radical labor unions formed after the Civil War.  It’s reputation was irreparably damaged during the Haymarket Affair in 1886.

CIO

American Federation of Labor

Knights of Labor

UAW