Quiz Guide -- Everdell's The First Moderns

Invention of the Concentration Camp

• Who was Weyler y Nicolau?
• What did Emily Hobhouse say about the first British concentrations camps, and when?
• The author says the story of concentration camps begins with resettlements such as those by the ancient assyrians and what other groups?
• One idea that allowed the concentration camp was promulgated by Mendelians. Who were they and what did they believe?
• When US Secretary of State John Sherman protested that the camps were cruel, was was Spain's response?
• What American figure inspired Weyler y Nicolau?
• Which war broke out over Spain's concentration camps in Cuba, and who won?
• In the same year the US freed Cuba, which other nation did it colonize?
• In 1900, how did the US justify its concentration camps?
• US Camps were based on Kichener's laager and kafir design for the Boer War. What did those camps involve, and whom did they imprison?
• What was the death rate in the laager camps?
• Which American fiction writer actively condemned both US and Boer camps, blaming them on Winston Churchill and his ancestors?
• What "cure" did the US use against its Filipino captives? Where did this technique originate?
• How many Filipino civilians did the US imprison in December 1901?
• How did a Missouri militiaman justify the execution of a mormon child?
• What did Theodore Roosevelt do about the concentration camps?
• What was the Vernichtungsbefehl?
• What, according to Everdell, enabled the Turks to kill 800,000 Armenians in 1915?
• in April 1919, what criteria did Dzerzhinsky use to imprison people in work camps?
• Where have concentration camps been used since Hitler?

World's Fair 1904

• What things made Louisiana distinctive in 1904?
• What date did the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition open? Who turned on the lights and how?
• What dessert was invented at the 1904 fair?
• What did the St Louis Browns bring to baseball in 1887?
• In 1904, "something was brewing" among St Louis's 35,000 black inhabitants. What was it called then, and where did it come from?
• What African American from St Louis was most associated with ragtime?
• Frederick Skiff planned the Exhibition's exhibits to illustrate the "development of man," by which he meant what?
• Skiff hired three American anthropologists to create an exhibit of what? What did it contain?
• How did the fair represent members of several indigenous Filipino tribes?
• What did President Roosevelt order the Filipino tribesmen to do and why?
• What did Samuel Verner bring to the fair?
• Whom did the Press refer to as the Human Tyger?
• Everdell calls the Fair Olympics' exclusion of women one of its "low points." What was the other?
• Who was Ota Benga, and what became of him?
• Who "paraded" in Roosevelt's 1905 inauguration, and what did he ask Roosevelt? What was the reply?