LSU LA 1203 Midterm Exam | Questions and Answers

LSU LA 1203 Midterm Exam | Questions and Answers Which person did Mary Rinehart ride through the Rockies with? Howard Eaton Old Yellowstone Days was written in 1936 by _____? Owen Wister Who headed the commission overseeing the management of Yosemite Mariposa Grant in the state of California? Frederick Law Olmstead Concord Hymn April 19, 1775 What 3 things does the Concord Hymn celebrate? 1) The Shot Heard Round the World. 2) Minute Men 3) Rude Bridge Across the Flood John Muir and Ralph waldo Emerson met in Yosemite. Muir called Emerson a ____ as a sign of respect. Sequoia Which month is the Good Oak represented in? February Who wrote "A Nation's Park"? George Caitlin David Harmon stated in the preface that 2 authors could be called nature writers. Who are the authors? John Muir and John Burroughs John McPhee described your instructor talks in a slow roll that could get him a job in a movie, hair looks as though a hair or comb would never have invited him to nature, has a yard which is a showcase of natural succession. Owen Wister is noted for writing ____ __________? The Virginian Frequently used free verse Carl Sandburg Had the idea of National Parks George Caitlin Wrote "Galloping the Great West" Thomas Wolfe "These things I ponder as the kettle sings..." Aldo Leopold "When the muskrat went under the bridge, I moved..." Annie Dillard "it is quite to go down to the Canyon ... mule..." John Burroughs "The main duty with which the Commissioner should be charged ... this peculiarity exists wholly in its scene." Frederick Law Olmstead "It is for us to the living to be dedicated to the unfinished work..." Abraham Lincoln (Gettysburg Address) "But we were not to be discouraged . . . there is always satisfaction in going to the bottom of things." John Burroughs "I would ask no other monument to my memory . . . than the reputation of having been the founder of such an institution." George Caitlin "Cities call I have heard them but they are no voice in all the world so consistent to me than the call of the Rockies." Mary Roberts Rinehart "Now we are engaged in the Great Civil are...so conceived and so dedicated.." Abraham Lincoln "The duty of preservation...because the millions hereafter can benefit from the act have the largest interest..." Frederick Law Olmstead True/False: A section is a subdivision of a geographic or physiographic province True Mississippi River Embayment or Alluvial Plain Physiographic Section Central lowlands, Coastal Plain, and Interior Low Plateau Physiographic Province ____ is in the Mississippi River Embayment or Alluvial Plain. Baton Rouge Minute Man National Historic Park April 19, Yosemite March 1, 1872 Yellowstone 1869 Grand Canyon Colorado Plateau Grand Canyon Judge Cornelius Hedges Yellowstone Lee Ferry Grand Canyon William Henry Jackson Yellowstone Ferdinand Hayden Yellowstone Paul Revere Minute Man Frederick Law Olmstead Yosemite Sierra Nevada Yosemite What is a subdivision of a physiographic province called? Section Mississippi River Embankment and Alluvial Plain is an example of what? Physiographic section Central Lowlands, Coastal Plain, and Interior Low Plateau are examples of? Physiographic province Baton Rouge is in what Province? Section? Coastal Plain; Mississippi River Embankment or Alluvial Plain. Events of April 19, 1775 are related to what National Park? Minute Man National Historic Park What was the 1st Scenic Reserve created by Federal Action? When? Yosemite; 1864 What was the 1st National Park? When? Yellowstone; March 1, 1872 Who went down the Colorado River? When? What place is significant to the River? John Wesley Powell; 1869; Grand Canyon Where did John Wesley Powell lose his arm? Battle of Shiloh What Physiographic Province is the Grand Canyon located in? Colorado Plateau Judge Cornelius Hedges went where on an expedition? What was it called? Yellowstone; Washburn Expedition What was the other expedition through Yellowstone? By whom? Hayden Expedition; Ferdinand Hayden What is the "easiest" place to cross the Colorado River? Lee's Ferry Where was the idea born to make Yellowstone a National Park? Washburn Expedition Who was the Photographer who went on the Hayden Expedition into Yellowstone? William Henry Jackson Who was the Artist who went on the Hayden Expedition and his work hangs somewhere? Thomas Moran