New Technologies
Wilbur and Orville Wright are most famous for the invention of this?
What is the airplane
Who founded Tuskegee University to provide technical training for African-Americans?
Who is Booker T. Washington
African Americans who did not follow the rules could face severe punishment or death by?
What is lynching
This racial group were forced into debt peonage – a system of forced labor.
Who are Mexicans
What was America’s most famous amusement park in the late 19th century?
What is Coney Island
Advances in this technological area had American mills producing huge quantities of cheap paper from wood pulp.
What is printing
What group of people were encouraged to send their children to public school?
Who are immigrants
In regards to voting restrictions, some states limited the vote by having African-Americans pay this type of tax?
What is a poll tax
This racial groups were increasingly excluded from mainstream society.
Who are Asians
What are the names of the two spectator sports that Americans became avid fans of at the turn of the century?
This person invented the Kodak camera.
Who is George Eastman
What area of school prepared students for industrial jobs?
What is high schools
In regards to voting restrictions, some states limited the vote to those African Americans who could read by giving them this type of test?
What is a literacy test
While most African Americans lived in the segregated South, many blacks migrated to the _______ in hopes of better jobs & equality.
What is the north
What was the name of the school that painted urban life?
What is the Ashcan School of American Art
How much was most newspapers sold for in the late 1800s?
What is 1 cent
What area of school expanded their curriculum to include science, civics, and social studies?
What is high schools
Another restriction to voting for African Americans was if their family was able to vote before 1870 than they could vote. What was this called?
What is the grandfather clause
This African American woman led a crusade against lynching after her friends were murdered.
Who is Ida B. Wells
In 1920, the U.S. was using this mode of transportation regularly to delivery mail?
What is airmail
What grade was expanded from 200 in 1880 to 3,000 in 1900?
What is kindergarten
The Supreme Court ruled that the segregation of races was legal and did not violate the 14th Amendment in this landmark case.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
Laws to separate white and black people in public and private facilities in the South was called?
What are Jim Crow Laws
In 1896 the Post Office introduced this system that brought packages directly to every home.
What is rural free delivery (RFD)