Final

Question 1

Who is regarded as the world’s greatest naval strategist and merchant marine strategist?

Answer 1

Alfred Thayer Mahan

Question 2

Who became impressed by an article written by Mayhan?

Answer 2

Admiral Steven b Luce

Question 3

When and where did Congress fund the Naval war College?

Answer 3

1884 in Newport Rhode Island

Question 4

In what year was Mayhan assigned as one of the faculty at the Naval war College?

Answer 4

1885

Question 5

Mayhan became president of the Naval war College in the year

Answer 5

1886

Question 6

What two books did Mayhan publish beginning in 1890?

Answer 6

Influence of Sea power upon history, 1660–17 83. Pub, 1892

Influence of Sea power upon the French Revolution and empire1793-1812

Question 7

What are the three requirements of a great sea power?

Answer 7

Navy, merchant Marine, and great manufacturing all working together building, transporting, and protecting.

Question 8

What did Mayhan published in 1897?

Answer 8

The interest of America in Seapower, present and future

Question 9

Who wrote “Moby dick”?

Answer 9

Herman Melville

Question 10

What playwright wrote “bound east of Cardiff“?

Answer 10

Eugene O’Neill

Question 11

Who wrote “heart of darkness”, and “the secret sharer”?

Answer 11

Joseph Conrad

Question 12

While on a voyage from new England to the west coast in the 1840s Richard H Dana wrote

Answer 12

Two years before the mast

Question 13

What was the first chapter from “two years before the mast” about?

Answer 13

A cook who backtalk and officer, and the captain beat him and confined him to solitary in the bottom of the ship, and he returned in sane.

Question 14

In what year was flogging outlawed in the Navy?

Answer 14

1850

Question 15

Congress outlawed corporal punishment on American merchant vessels in the year

Answer 15

1898

Question 16

What were American flag ships refer to during the post-Civil War.?

Answer 16

Hell ships

Question 17

A belaying pin, which allowed for a figure 8 while hoisting sales, was also used to

Answer 17

Beat the crew

Question 18

A form of punishment by which a man’s wrists were iron up and hoisted up until his toes barely touched the deck was known as

Answer 18

Tricing up

Question 19

What were some other forms of punishment?

Answer 19

Broken arms, legs, ribs, some where skinned alive with deck scrapers

Question 20

A shipping master who demanded a crew at any cost, who’s basic idea was to keep seamen broke was known as a

Answer 20

Crimp

Question 21

What is a “chit”?

Answer 21

Tab

Question 22

Sailors being caught in a cycle of spending all their money while in port and then jumping back aboard ship or been shanghaied was the concept of

Answer 22

Debt peonage

Question 23

What was the shipping commissioner act of 1872?

Answer 23

A weak attempt by the federal government to stop shanghaiing to where only sober men could sign their shipping articles

Question 24

What did the dingley act of 1884 do?

Answer 24

Abolished the advanced wage, and prohibited allotments to anyone except a sailors wife or blood relative

Question 25

All this bad shit that was going on to sailors eventually lead to what?

Answer 25

The birth of unions

Question 26

What was the first long lasting union?

Answer 26

The marine fireman boiler water tender, 1883

Question 27

What was the second union that formed?

Answer 27

Coast Seamens union, 1885

Question 28

What union formed in 1886?

Answer 28

Offshore Bluewater west coast deck department

Question 29

What union was created in 1891 and still going today?

Answer 29

Sailors union of the Pacific

Question 30

National seamens union

Answer 30

Chicago, 1892

Question 31

In 1895 the NSU changed to the

Answer 31

International seaman’s union

Question 32

Who was the first marathon leader that took over the east and gulf coast unions?

Answer 32

Andrew Furuseth

Question 33

Furuseth was born in

Answer 33

Ramedal norway, 1854

Question 34

Furuseth declines his family business and set sail at the age of 19 on the

Answer 34

Bark Marie

Question 35

Furuseth helped found what union?

Answer 35

CSU

Question 36

Furuseth was elected | of the CSU in

Answer 36

Secretary | 1887

Question 37

The highest position at the CSU was

Answer 37

Secretary

Question 38

How long was Furuseth career?

Answer 38

10 yrs | Only on sail ships, no steam

Question 39

What were furuseths 2 goal in dc in 1895

Answer 39

To improve legal status of all Mariners under American flag, and improve economics of merchant mariners.

Question 40

What was the Maguire act of 1895?

Answer 40

Abolished crimp allotment, abolished imprisonment for desertion on coastwise trip.

Question 41

What was the case where for sailors jumped ship while on the West Coast heading to Chile?

Answer 41

Arago case 1897

Question 42

What was Robertson versus Baldwin, 1897?

Answer 42

Second Dred Scott decision. Supreme Court ruled that from the earliest sailing period, a sailors personal liberty for the life of the contract was never intended to apply to their contract. No 13th amendment for sailors at that time.

Question 43

What ended corporal punishment on American flag ships?

Answer 43

White act of 1898

Question 44

What else did the white act accomplish?

Answer 44

Limited to one month salary and the amount of an allotment by crimps. Outlawed imprisonment for deserting on a cost wise voyage. Lessened punishment for desertion in foreign ports to one months pay.

Question 45

What senator from Wisconsin did Furuseth befriend?

Answer 45

Robert LaFollette

Question 46

What passed in 1915 that the effects of are still profound to this day?

Answer 46

LaFollette’s Seamens bill

Question 47

According to LaFollettes bill, what percentage onboard must have A/B license, and what percentage had to understand orders of officers?

Answer 47

65% | 75%

Question 48

Birthing space increased

Answer 48

2/3 from 72 ft.³ to 120 ft.³

Question 49

What were some other advantages of the bill of 1915?

Answer 49

Required hospital and lavatory spaces, increase Manning scale of crew and passengers one to one, no allotments on foreign and coastal crimps. Desertion only result in a loss of money, no imprisonment.

Question 50

What was the main reason the bill of 1915 past?

Answer 50

Ship safety. Americans and Europeans were traumatized after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912

Question 51

Who was opposed to the passing of the bill of 1915?

Answer 51

The Great Lakes shipping interest

Question 52

Why was President Wilson reluctant to sign the bill of 1915?

Answer 52

Because he knew he would lose votes on the next election, but he knew was the only chance to get something done for the merchant Marine

Question 53

During the period of 1870 to 1910 national wealth was up by

Answer 53

600%

Question 54

1870 to 1910 How much was railroad mileage, iron ore, and coal production up by?

Answer 54

400%, 600%, 1000%

Question 55

1870 to 1910 American flag trade was at

Answer 55

50%

Question 56

When was Woodrow Wilson elected to presidency?

Answer 56

1912

Question 57

“Without a great merchant Marine, we cannot take our place in the world”

Answer 57

Mahan

Question 58

Where are we in World War I in 1913?

Answer 58

No, we were neutral

Question 59

Pre-1914 an A/B made

Answer 59

A dollar a day

Question 60

1914 A/B

Answer 60

30/day

Question 61

1916 A/B

Answer 61

45/day

Question 62

1918 A/B

Answer 62

75/day

Question 63

1919 A/B

Answer 63

85/day

Question 64

1921 A/B

Answer 64

72.50/day

Question 65

1922 A/B

Answer 65

55/day

Question 66

1930s A/B

Answer 66

1/day

Question 67

What year did we join World War I?

Answer 67

April 1917

Question 68

What did Wilson get Congress to pass in 1916?

Answer 68

World shipping act

Question 69

What did the world shipping act do?

Answer 69

Encourage a naval auxiliary and naval reserve. Developed an organized trading program with routes set up. Outlaw economic discrimination by foreign shipping companies

Question 70

What was the emergency fleet corporation?

Answer 70

In case of war, the government takes control of the merchant Marine

Question 71

What happened the day after we join World War I?

Answer 71

The EFC confiscated every vessel over 2500 tons

Question 72

How many tons of neutral vessels did the EFC lease?

Answer 72

Over 2 million

Question 73

How many ships did the EFC build?

Answer 73

15 million tons at 2500 tons apiece

Question 74

When did the first ships built by the EFC hit the water?

Answer 74

Summer of 1918

Question 75

How many ships did the EFC launch in September 1918 at the wars end?

Answer 75

465,000 tons

Question 76

What were the most famous of the ships built by the EFC?

Answer 76

Hogg Islanders

Question 77

What was the most famous Hogg islander?

Answer 77

S.S. city of Flint

Question 78

What occurred two hours after England declared war on Germany in World War II?

Answer 78

A German sub sinks a British passenger ship, the city of Flint gets there and saves passengers

Question 79

What is the merchant marine act of 1920?

Answer 79

The Jones act

Question 80

What did the Jones act do?

Answer 80

Returned the entire fleet including the EFC’s back to private enterprise. Provided for money for shipbuilding, sold government ships, and close the coastwise shipping to only US flag ships

Question 81

How much did it cost to build the hog Islanders, and how much did they sell for?

Answer 81

200–250 per ton, $30 a ton

Question 82

In the 20s the freight rate collapsed below

Answer 82

The 1914 freight rate

Question 83

In the 1920s what were ship owners demanding?

Answer 83

20% pay cut for the entire crew, longer work week, and no overtime

Question 84

What kind of a pay cut did the US shipping board rule to?

Answer 84

15%

Question 85

Furuseth appealed the decision to

Answer 85

Warren G Harding and got shut down

Question 86

What happened during the Maritime strike of 1921?

Answer 86

Companies hired 35,000 nonunion employees. The strike lasted 64 days and the unions gave up and excepted the shit pay and treatment

Question 87

For how long after the Maritime strike of 1921 was there no union activity?

Answer 87

15 years

Question 88

How many members did the ISU have before the strike and after the strike?

Answer 88

120,000 before, and 16,000 after

Question 89

1934 A/B

Answer 89

30/month

Question 90

1934 O/S

Answer 90

17.50/month

Question 91

What was Dr Willetts dads Knick name?

Answer 91

1-trip blacky willet

Question 92

Working around the clock was known as a

Answer 92

Field day

Question 93

1$/month plus room and board

Answer 93

Work aboard

Question 94

Wages, benefits, hours, and working conditions all negotiated through collective bargaining is known as

Answer 94

Bread and butter unionism