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100
Wrote humorous works and adventure stories that have become accepted as classics of American literature.
Who is Mark Twain?
100
Developer of Central Park and considered the "Father of Urban Planning"
Who is Frederick Law Olmsted?
100
Invented the Kodak camera
Who is George Eastman?
100
Test given to voters to determine whether they could read and thus be eligible to vote. Used to prevent African Americans and poor, white southerners from voting.
What is a Literacy Test?
100
This accounted for the greatest number of children being unable to attend public high schools.
What is racism? (discrimination)
200
Founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
200
Chicago architect responsible for the Chicago's lakefront design and New York City's Flatiron Building.
Who is Daniel Burnham?
200
Their invention led to rapid transcontinental mail delivery?
Who is Orville and Wilbur Wright?
200
An annual tax that had to be paid to gain access to the voting booth.
What is a Poll Tax?
200
Children attending elementary schools in the late 1800's were seldom expected to a) obey. b) memorize. c) learn reading, writing, and arithmetic. d) go to college.
What is go to college?
300
Believed that well-educated, African American leaders should attempt to be immediately included in mainstream life and was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
300
Designer of the Wainwright Building in St. Louis, one of the 1st skyscrapers.
Who is Louis Sullivan?
300
His invention replaced glass photographic plates with paper film?
Who is George Eastman?
300
It's intended purpose was to allow disenfranchised whites, who were too poor to pay the tax or who could not read, the right to vote based on whether he, his father, or grandfather had been eligible to vote before Jan. 1, 1867.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
300
During the late 1800's, public elementary schools emphasized all of the following except a) job training courses. b)strict discipline. c) rote memorization. d) citizenship skills.
What is job training courses?
400
American painter who embraced realism.
Who is Thomas Eakins?
400
African American reformer who tried to end lynching.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
400
They designed the biplane that flew successfully at Kitty Hawk?
Who is Orville and Wilbur Wright?
400
Laws to separate white and black people in public and private facilities.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
400
This educational school was created expressly to meet the needs of industry.
What is the Research University?
500
Opened the first department store.
Who is Marshall Field?
500
Two New York newspaper publishers who competed for readers by employing yellow journalism.
Who is Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst?
500
This machine greatly improved the efficiency of typesetting.
What is the Linotype Machine?
500
Established the principle of "Separate But Equal", allowing states to maintain segregated facilities for blacks and whites as long as they provided equal service. Unfortunately the "separate" part was strongly enforced, but the "equal" part was not.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
500
In the late 1800's, these children found it the most difficult to enroll in a public high school.
Who are African Americans?
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