Author Question: What attitude toward the company town was expressed by the Pullman worker who said, We are born in a ... (Read 59 times)

lb_gilbert · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

As the leader of the American Railway Union, Eugene Debs led __________.

A) a march of unemployed men to Washington, D.C.
B) a strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company
C) the movement to create the People's Party
D) widespread protests against the gold standard

Question 2

How did the doctrine of Manifest Destiny conflict with the idea of the West portrayed in Charles Deas's painting The Trapper and His Family?

A) Proponents of Manifest Destiny saw Indians as inferiors rather than potential partners.
B) Proponents of Manifest Destiny sought the eradication of the wilderness of the West to make
way for urbanization.
C) Proponents of Manifest Destiny rejected the freewheeling ways of mountain men in favor of
Christian values.
D) Proponents of Manifest Destiny derided hunting and supported the westward spread of
agriculture.

Question 3

What two events that took place in 1949 led to Communist gains during the Cold War?

A) creation of the Warsaw Pact and the failed anti-Communist revolution in Hungary
B) North Korea's invasion of South Korea and the Sino-Soviet Treaty between China and the
USSR
C) the Communist-led coup in Czechoslovakia and the Soviet blockade of Berlin
D) Soviet acquisition of an atomic bomb and the Communists' takeover of China

Question 4

The starving time refers to an event resulting in the __________.

A) high mortality rates that occurred in Jamestown during the winter of 16091610
B) expulsion of the Powhatan Indian confederacy from Virginia
C) arrival of African slaves in Virginia
D) large number of deaths among the neighboring Indian tribes due to exposure to new diseases

Question 5

What attitude toward the company town was expressed by the Pullman worker who said, We are born in a Pullman house, fed from the Pullman shop, taught in the Pullman school, catechized in the Pullman church, and when we die we shall be buried in

the Pullman cemetery and go to the Pullman Hell? A) bewilderment
B) celebration
C) gratitude
D) resentment