The Gilded Age
Amazing Arts
Migration
Hauntings
Freedom!
100
This writer coined the term "Gilded Age"
Who is Mark Twain?
100
This special musical feature gives Blues music its particular mood.
What is the "blue note"?
100
This term describes the mass movement of millions of Black Americans from the southern US to the cities of the North and West.
What is the Great Migration?
100
This eerie 19th century practice featured people who claimed they could speak to the dead.
What is spiritualism?
100
This historical era is also known as "A rebirth of freedom"
What is Reconstruction?
200
This celebration started in 1909 with a protest in Manhattan by working class immigrant women.
What is International Women's Day?
200
A key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, her sculptures include Gamin:
Who is Augusta Savage?
200
This is the name of the group of African American citizens who migrated to Nebraska during and after Reconstruction.
Who are the "Exodusters"?
200
This was the costliest war in all of US History in terms of dead and wounded.
What is the "Civil War"?
200
WEB DuBois was the founding editor of this NAACP magazine in 1910.
What is "The Crisis"?
300
She wrote the book "Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments" which used the archives to imagine the lives of Black women in New York during the 1920s.
Who is Saidiya Hartman?
300
She is known as the "Empress of the Blues"
Who is Bessie Smith?
300
He inspired the title of Isabel Wilkerson's book, "The Warmth of Other Suns"
Who is Richard Wright?
300
Her life story inspired Toni Morrison's "Beloved."
Who is Margaret Garner?
300
This was the site of an uprising led by John Brown in 1859.
What is Harper's Ferry?
400
His photographs of working class life in New York shook the conscience of Gilded Age elites.
Who is Jacob Riis?
400
His artwork is featured as the background image of our Canvas class page.
Who is Jacob Lawrence?
400
This country was the largest source of 19th century immigration to the US.
What is Germany?
400
Daguerreotypes were produced when a sheet of copper lined with a thin layer of this material was exposed then developed over mercury.
What is silver?
400
He wrote the lines, "now, here is a unique spectacle--the Filipinos fighting for liberty, the American people fighting to give them liberty."
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
500
JP Morgan sent 5 million dollars to the US government to fund the army's suppression of a strike on this railroad.
What is the Baltimore and Ohio?
500
A decorated WWI veteran, he pioneered jazz, then brought it to the world.
Who is James Reese Europe?
500
His Supreme Court case established the principle of Birthright Citizenship in the United States.
Who is Wong Kim Ark?
500
The event that occurred at this building in 1911, and which led to mass protest by immigrant women in NYC. Today it is a NYU building marked with a small plaque.
What is the Triangle shirtwaist fire?
500
Her life stretched from a childhood in slavery to labor activism in the 1870s to the Communist Party in 1930s.
Who is Lucy Parsons?