What city became the first American city to electrify its urban transit?
What is Richmond, Virginia
100
What were 2 of the 3 subjects in the curriculum for public education?
What is reading writing arithmetic
100
What was it called when whites and blacks were seperated?
What is segregation
100
An annual tax that had to be paid before qualifying to vote?
What is poll tax
100
When was the war of 1812?
What is 1812
200
Name three ways of transportation
What is Streetcars, airplanes, subways, or trains
200
Who was mostly excluded from public secondary education?
What is african americans
200
What is the annual tax that had to be paid before you could vote?
What is poll tax
200
Southern states passed racial _______ laws to separate white and black people in public?
What is segragation
200
Name two of the armies in the French and Indian war?
What is French and Indian
300
How did bridge building contribute to the growth of cities?
What is It allowed people to come from one side of the river to the other causing the growth of cities.
300
Why did american children begin attending school at a younger age?
What is to offer childcare for employed mothers
300
This stated that you were eligible to vote even if you couldn't pay the poll tax or failed the literacy test.
What is the grandfather clause
300
System that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off debt to employer.
What is debt peonage
300
A bus driver was heading down a street in Delhi. He went right past a stop sign without stopping, he turned left where there was a 'no left turn' sign and he went the wrong way on a one-way street.. Then he went on the left side of the road past a cop car. Still-he didn't break any traffic laws. Why not?
What is he was walking
400
Who built and flew an airplane?
What is Orville and Wilbur Wright
400
What was an entrance requirement for some state universities?
What is high school diploma
400
This case stated that it was legal to seperate whites and blacks?
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson
400
Lady who moved to Memphis in early 1800’s to work as teacher?
What is Ida B. Wells
400
A cat had three kittens: January, March and May. What was the mothers name.
What is "what"
500
Who designed the ten story Wainwright building in St. Louis?
What is Louis Sullivan
500
How many annual weeks of school attendance by students between the ages of 8 and 14 were required by law?
What is 12-16 weeks
500
What is the system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off debt to the employer?
What is debt peonage
500
Song that ended with “Jump, ____ ____”
What is Jim Crow
500
A man is trapped in a room. The room has only two possible exits: two doors. Through the first door there is a room constructed from magnifying glass. The blazing hot sun instantly fries anything or anyone that enters. Through the second door there is a fire-breathing dragon. How does the man escape?
What is wait until the sun sets and go out the magnifying glass room