Segregation
Inventions
Culture
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Final Jeopardy
100

The factor that prevented the majority of children from attending public high schools

What was racism

100

Invention that lowered the price of newspapers to 1 cent

What was the double-sided printing press

100

Type of fiction that became very popular around the turn of the 20th century

What were Western adventure tales

100

Clause that kept black Americans from voting but ensure white Americans could

What was the grandfather clause

100

Invention that allowed women to feel increasingly independent 

(is also one of Queen's best songs)

Bicycle

200

Supreme Court case that ruled that racial segregation in public facilities was legal

What was Plessy v Ferguson

200

Invented a camera that used roll film instead of heavy glass plates

Who was George Eastman

200

Time period in which most black Americans were NOT attending high school

What was 1900

200

Reasons for going to a country and reasons for leaving a country

What were push and pull factors

300

Laws that separated blacks and whites

What were Jim Crow Laws

300

Transportation development in the late 1900s that allowed cities to expand outwards

What were new railroad lines

300

The turn of the century when baseball, vaudeville theatre, and amusement parks became popular

What was the 20th century

300

In the Southwest, Mexicans earned a living in these types of jobs

What was railroad workers and agricultural laborers

400

Doctrine that stated that if facilities were about the same quality, then blacks and whites could be forced to have them separate

What was the separate-but-equal doctrine

400

Major invention from two brothers that helped cities expand in the late-nineteenth century

What was the airplane

400

Man who held the belief that racism would end as blacks acquired practical work skills and proved their economic value to society

Who was Booker T Washington

400

Daniel Burham's plan for this city emphasized a lakefront park system

What was Chicago

500

Direct effect of the Plessy v Ferguson decision

What was 60 years of racial segregation

500

Inventions that made skyscrapers possible

What was the elevator and steel framework

500

An interest in leisure activities becoming popular in the 1900s was marked by these two activities

What was bicycling and amusement parks

500

Three factors that kept black Americans from voting in the South

What were poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses

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