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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12 | Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Leroy Percy's speeches advocate?
(a) Better treatment for blacks and education for black children..
(b) The right for women to vote.
(c) Equal rights for women in education and the workforce.
(d) To be able to keep slaves.

2. What controversial issue did Eads propose that was authorized in 1867?
(a) A bridge over the Mississippi.
(b) A railroad across the state of Mississippi.
(c) Construction of a plane.
(d) Constuction of a steamboat.

3. What percentage of the United States does the Mississippi River drain?
(a) 25%.
(b) 41%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 30%.

4. What ongoing problem existed at the mouth of the Mississippi River that prohibited shipping?
(a) Sandbars and large amounts of deposited sediment.
(b) Piracy.
(c) A strong undertow.
(d) Rocky cliffs.

5. What were the three basic methods that engineers have attempted to control the river?
(a) Dams, outlets and cutoffs.
(b) Levees, outlets, and cutoffs.
(c) Levees, dams, and cutoffs.
(d) Levees, outlets, and dams.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Congress create in response to the flooding in Mississippi?

2. What did W.A. Percy institute in the Delta area?

3. How did Leroy Percy eventually get a seat in Senate despite his popularity decline?

4. During the 19th century, what was the attitude about the Mississippi River?

5. For decades, what were the levees constructed to do?

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