The inventor of the popular roll-film camera was
George Eastman
Brooker T. Washington headed this Institute
Tuskegee Institute
According to ___, educated blacks should immediately join the mainstream of society.
W.E.B Du Bois
Which type of fiction was very popular around the turn of the 20th century?
Light fiction
In Chicago, ___ opened the first department store in the nation.
Marshall Field
The landscape architect led the movement for planned urban parks.
Fredrick Law Olmsted
All of the following became popular around the turn of the 20th century EXCEPT
Bicycles
Amusement Parks
Airplanes
Split Skirt
Southern states sometimes used a grandfather clause to allow them to
Vote without passing the literacy test
Which generalization is consistent with the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson?
It said that it was legal to separate the races.
The first skyscraper was designed by ___.
Louis Sullivan
By writing and lecturing, ___ tried to end the lynching of African Americans.
Ida B. Wells
Cities in the late 19th century expanded with the development of all of the following EXCEPT
Skyscrapers
Amusement Parks
Rural Free Delivery
In the Southwest, many Mexicans earned a living as
Railroad Workers & Miners
The popularity of bicycling and amusement parks reflected which trend of the 1900s?
Fun stuff
The first powered airplane was developed by ___.
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Novelist and humorist wrote books that have become American classics.
Mark Twain
In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that
it was legal to have separation of races in public accommodations
Jim Crow laws were laws that
Allowed racial segregation
Which development lowered the price of newspapers to a penny a copy?
Printing Press
Skyscrapers were made possible by the invention of
Elevators & Reinforced steel
Competing with Joseph Pulitzer, ___ published sensational stories in his newspapers.
William Randolph Hearst
This sprawling amusement center in New York became a model for urban amusement parks.
Coney Island
Who expressed the belief that racism would end as blacks acquired practical work skills and proved their economic value to society?
Booker T. Washington
What were the names of the two major newspapermen of the late 1800s?
the New York World and the New York Morning Journal.
What did Henry Ford start so that men of many nations could be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live?
Sociology Department