The heart of American showbiz. It was essentially a giant variety show featuring sing, dancing, theatre, celebrities, animals, comedy, and juggling among other things.
What is Vaudeville?
100
America's first department store.
What is Macy's?
100
An extra-legal killing.
What is lynching?
100
This common women's job was especially common to immigrants and minorities.
What is a maid?
200
Booker T. Washington's promise to respect the established power structure in the south so long as African-Americans were given education and not killed.
What is the Atlanta Compromise?
200
America's first Amusement Park.
What is Coney Island?
200
American Nurse who advocated for birth control and eventually help found Planned Parenthood.
Who was Margaret Sanger?
200
Among the ways southern states had to prevent the African-American vote was this. It implemented a tax in order to vote.
What is a poll tax?
200
The most important of the women's suffrage movement organizations.
What is the National American Woman Suffrage Association?
(NAWSA is fine)
300
An African-American sociologist who took a more aggressive approach to race relations. He is famous for founding the NAACP.
Who was W.E.B. DuBois?
300
Around the turn of the century, America saw the development of these three sports.
What were football, basketball, and baseball?
300
These drawings came to typify the American woman at the turn of the century.
What were Gibson Girls?
300
This system in America saw African-American become a second-class race.
What is segregation?
300
America's first true movie star.
Who was Charlie Chaplin?
400
These court cases allowed Michigan (and then other states) to levy taxes that would support an entire education system, from kindergarten through college.
What is the Kalamazoo Cases?
400
Composer of The Maple Leaf Rag.
Who was Scott Joplin?
400
Following the Titanic disaster, American men argued that women shouldn't have the right to vote because of this time honored policy when ships were sinking.
What is "women and children first?"
400
America's most well know anti-lynching crusader.
Who was Ida. B. Wells?
400
A forerunner of the NAACP, it sought to end discrimination and racial hatred.
What is the Niagara Movement?
500
This was the most noteworthy of America's early textbooks. While it hoped to teach skills it also sought to teach morals.
What is McGuffey's Eclectic Reader?
500
Publisher of the NY Journal and practitioner of yellow journalism.
Who was William Randolph Hearst?
500
An early American antifeminist. He argued that if American women attempted to educate themselves, their brains would grow bigger but their wombs would dry up.
Who was Edward Clarke?
500
Instrumental Supreme Court case that in 1896 that made the term separate but equal a legal concept in America.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
500
Winslow Homer's painting "Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)" is this type of painting.