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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event did the Boston Club pay a large role in?
(a) Harvesting the area.
(b) Rebuliding the city of New Orleans.
(c) The impending flood waters.
(d) Planning Mardi Gras.

2. What did Eads continue to do for a living in St. Louis after his family moved on?
(a) He opened a salvage business.
(b) He started building ships.
(c) He became an ironworker.
(d) He ran a plantation.

3. Who are the patrons of the Boston Club?
(a) Nearly all the bank presidents in New Orleans.
(b) The blue collar workers.
(c) The blacks.
(d) The farmers.

4. What will eventually happen to the water released through the Mounds Landing crevasse?
(a) It will flow back into the Mississippi River.
(b) It will continue to flood the area.
(c) It will flow into the Arkansas River.
(d) It will flow into the Colorado River.

5. What was the basis of political power and structure of Plaquemines and St. Bernard Parishes?
(a) Trade.
(b) Making and selling illegal alcohol.
(c) Businesses.
(d) Fishing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Humphrey prove himself to be in combat?

2. What did the flooding of 1912 and 1913 demonstrate?

3. How did Eads assist in the Civil War?

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

5. In the 1850's, what two cities were involved in a transportation and freighting competition?

(see the answer key)

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