Birth of a Nation

1 . QUESTION (1 POINTS ) [] 1BUS Why was BOAN not the first feature film (Cook p62

1 . Answer : Griffith shot enough film to make Judith of Bethulia a feature-length epic . Additionally , the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , American Film Institute and British Film institute define a feature film to have a running time of 40 minutes or longer , and by this logic the first feature film was the Australian film The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906

2 . QUESTION ( 1 POINTS ) [] 1R What book was BOAN based on

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. QUESTION (2 POINTS ) [] 2HIS What is reconstruction

4 . QUESTION (1 POINTS ) [] 1HIS What were carpetbaggers

4 . Answer : Carpetbaggers are Northerners who moved the South during the Reconstruction period . The term was coined as a derogatory of the white politicians from the North who would arrive South with their travel carpetbags , and were regarded as individuals prepared to exploit and plunder a defeated South

5 . QUESTION (1 POINTS ) [] 1HIS What were scallywags

5 . Answer : Scallywags or scalawags are the Southern whites who joined the Republican Party in the ex-Confederate South

6 . QUESTION (1 POINTS ) [] 1R What is a vigilante

6 . Answer : A vigilante is an individual who takes justice into his or her own hands when he deems the response of legal authorities to be insufficient , and by doing so ignores the due process of law . In the aftermath of the Civil War , vigilante secret societies such as the Ku Klux Klan arose

7 . QUESTION ( 1 POINTS ) [] 1R What is a lynching

7 . Answer : Lynching is quite simply , the group vigilantism in the sense that it takes the form of extrajudicial punishment meted out by a mob The term is derived from the name of Charles Lynch , who ed extralegal punishment for Tory acts during the American Revolution . In the context of the Civil War and its aftermath , southern whites used lynching to terrorize and intimidate freed blacks who were voting and assuming political power and during the Reconstruction period , lynching was used against African Americans in an attempt to control them , bar them from the right to vote and force them into plantation work

8 . QUESTION (1 POINTS ) [] 1HIS What did President Wilson say about the film

8 . Answer : After a special White House screening of The Birth of a Nation , President Woodrow Wilson was reputed to have remarked , It is like writing history with lightning

9 . QUESTION (10 POINTS ) [] 10ST Describe as many conflicts as you can in BOAN . Use numbered points

9 . Answer : 1 . The Ku Klux Klan vs . crazed ' Negro freedmen , the former attempt to disenfranchise the latter through politics

2 . The romantic aspirations of Ben Cameron Elsie Stoneman and Phil Stoneman an Margaret Cameron become interrupted by the responsibilities and instability brought about by The Civil War

3 . Northern White Congressmen led by Austin Stonemen attempt vs . Post Secessionist Southerners . The former attempt to punish ' the latter through Reconstruction policy

4 . Former Union soldiers who resolve...