HIST 370 Final UPDATED Questions and CORRECT Answers
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HIST 370
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HIST 370
HIST 370 Final UPDATED Questions and
CORRECT Answers
The Progressive Impulse and the Environment - CORRECT ANSWER-
Theodore Roosevelt - CORRECT ANSWER- -New Yorker, ranch in North Dakota got
wiped out, lamented loss of wildlife and grass, conservationist
Boone and Crockett Club - CORRECT AN...
HIST 370 Final UPDATED Questions and
CORRECT Answers
The Progressive Impulse and the Environment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Theodore Roosevelt - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -New Yorker, ranch in North Dakota got
wiped out, lamented loss of wildlife and grass, conservationist
Boone and Crockett Club - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -established in New York in January
1888 by TR and 12 of his animal-loving friends, named after Daniel Boone and Davy
Crockett (frontiersmen TR worshiped), dedicated to saving big game animals
Yellowstone National Park (1872) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -land put aside for
environmental tourism in Wyoming, Idaho and Montana, picture perfect spot, represent
nature in pristine state
Gifford Pinchot - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -appointed head of US Forest Service 1905 by
TR, conservationist-protection and preservation of nature
John Muir - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -born in Scotland brought to Wiscson when 11,
founder of environmental movement, based a lot on his religion, disagreed with conservation,
founded Sierra Club in 1892, felt gov. Had moral responsibility to preserve nature, "climb the
mountains and get their good tidings"
Henry David Thoreau - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- "In wilderness is the preservation of the
world"
Hetch Hetchy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -utilitarianism vs preservation , valley in Sierra
Nevada, after earthquake and fire in 1906 city of San Francisco propose to dam and flood the
valley, Pinchot support it and Muir warned against, dam ended up being built
Frederick Winslow Taylor - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -engineer; Taylorism tried to help
employers streamline production by eliminating the chaos present on the shop floor,
Taylorism controlled workers while Conservationism controlled forests
,efficiency movement - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -"The first principle of conservation is
development" -Pinchot, lumber companies cede to the government so government can tell
when it's efficient to cut trees and thus we don't run into Lorax problem
-nature left on its own is inefficient to the demands of Americans
forest fires - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Pinchot's brand of conservation did hella damage
here, dry weather in the west combined with buildup of slash and decrease of native
American controlled fires led to one of greatest wildfires in American history (1910)
-fires led to government policy of fire suppression into Forest Service
-Pinchot fear disorder that fire produced
-suppression of fire was misguided- fires aid decomposition of forest litter and help recycle
nutrients and w/o them fuels build up
Wolves - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -destructive to livestock, 1926 no wolves in AZ
Coyotes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -prey on deer; without them deer produce like crazy
conservation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1st wave- late 19th early 20th century
preservation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1st wave- late 19th early 20th century
urban environmentalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1st wave- late 19th early 20th century
SECOND WAVE ENVIRONMENTALISM - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
what might 3rd wave environmentalism be considered? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
mountain lions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -predator target by US government
,Deer - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -deer proliferated with hunting of predators and they had
a Malthusian crisis that killed 60% of the population
Tourism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -how to rationalize game in the interests of tourism; to
create and preserve a wilderness experience, YellowStone
Nez Perce - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Nez Perce Indians, US gov wage war and drive
them to Yellowstone where they were lost and confused; example of US gov effort to rid of
NA
Ward v Race Horse (1896) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -1896 US Supreme Court Case-
overturned the protection in the 1868 treaty for Indians to hunt on unoccupied government
land
tractor - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- resulted in the dust bowl, 3rd worst ecological disaster
in history
poaching - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Congress in 1894 named federal offense;
transformed common past times like hunting into crimes like poaching
Elk - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -market for Elk's teeth boomed after founding of 1868 Elks
Club which used them for everything
bison - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- sold hides for cash
1918 Influenza Pandemic - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -began in spring when soldiers
burned tons of manure, stinky yellow haze, sun went black in
-two days later an army private reported to camp hospital with fever, sore throat, headache
then more came
-unlike any flu ever seen, everyone had preconception of what flu was but this flu hit people
like a truck and turned into pneumonia
-influenza saying things should be shut down, war saying things need to speed up
-mainly killed because it filled up lungs with fluid
-coffins so high demand they would get stolen, people had to stay on watch
, Vaccine - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -advances in microbiology helped to eliminate mystery
of causes of diseases
-leads to thought of invincibility
-seemed people who mastered medicine could control life and death
-thought it was caused by bacteria so made a vaccine with it, but can't make vaccine if
looking at wrong cause
World War I - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -summer of 1918 sent off to war, some came from
Kansas where influenza started
-Kansas sickness resurfaced in Europe, all soldiers got sick
-it spread and the microbe mutated
-big idea, US tunnel visioned on war
Virus - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -virus too small to see under microscope, couldn't see it
until electron microscope
-didn't know what they were looking for and too small to see
Bacteria - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -people cough, it spreads like wildfire
-believed to be caused by bacteria but wrong
urbanization - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Herd Immunity - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -source of danger is fellow human beings
-survivors of the sweep developed immunity
-life returned back to normal but it was a shock
Wilderness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -for many wilderness stands as last remaining place
where civilization has not fully infected the earth
-best antidote to our human selves; refuge we must recover
-actually it is a human creation; hides behind a mask that seems natural- we see our own
desires
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