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100
Abolished slavery by stating that slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the U.S., or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
Segregation by law.
What is de jure segregation?
100
Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
Who is Mark Twain?
100
Groups of stores under the same ownership that sold goods cheaply by buying in bulk. Woolworth pioneered this type of store that lasted for 117 years.
What is a "Five and Dime" or Chain Store?
100
This machine could print on both sides of a continuous roll of paper, cut, fold, and count the sheets.
What is the web-perfecting press?
200
Established the criteria for citizenship as all persons born or naturalized in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
Segregation by practice or custom.
What is de facto segregation?
200
Books that glorified the wild west and its characters in series like Deadwood Dick and books about Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok. They usually cost $.10.
What are Dime Novels?
200
One could order goods from Sears and Roebuck using this.
What is a mail-order catalog?
200
This professional sport featured the Boston Pilgrims (Americans) v. the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first World Series in 1903.
What is baseball?
300
Says the right of citizens of the U.S. to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the U.S. or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
300
Informal rules and customs that regulated relationships between whites and blacks.
What is Racial Etiquette?
300
An exciting new musical form at the turn of the century that was a blend of African-American spirituals and European musical forms.
What is Ragtime?
300
This brought packages directly to every home, boosting the mail-order business.
What is rural free delivery?
300
Performances featuring song, dance, slapstick comedy, and chorus lines were popular at the turn of the century.
What is Vaudeville?
400
States that no state can make or enforce any law which shall abridge the immunities of citizens of the U.S.; nor shall they deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process.
What is the 14th Amendment?
400
The illegal execution, without trial, carried out by a mob.
What is lynching?
400
Wrote Maple Leaf Rag.
Who is Scott Joplin?
400
He said, "Give the lady what she wants."
Who is Marshall Field?
400
She said that bicycles had done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
500
States that no state can deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
What is the 14th Amendment?
500
It was ruled in this case that the 15th Amendment did not automatically give the vote to anyone. It upheld the use of literacy tests and poll taxes.
What is United States v. Reese?
500
This technically innovative movie glorified the KKK and portrayed African-Americans negatively.
What is The Birth of a Nation?
500
You could order everything you would need from birth to death in this very popular catalog.
What is the Sears and Roebuck catalog?
500
A system of involuntary servitude in which the labor is forced to work off a debt usually used against Mexican laborers in the Southwest U.S.
What is debt peonage?
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