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Science and Urban Life
Expanding Public Education
Segregation and Discrimination
The Dawn of Mass Culture
CATS!!
100
Who designed the Kodak camera?
George Eastman.
100
Who founded the Niagara Movement?
W. E. B. Du Bois.
100
What were the laws to separate white and black people in public and private facilities.
The Jim Crow Laws.
100
What was the most famous urban amusement center called?
Coney Island
100
What is a group of cats called?
A clowder.
200
Who flew the first biplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina?
Orville and Wilbur Wright.
200
Why did children start attending school at a younger age?
Childcare for working parents.
200
What was the supreme court that ruled the separation of races in public accommodations was legal and did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment.
Plessy V. Ferguson
200
What was designed for women to enjoy riding bikes just as much as men?
The Split Skirt.
200
About how many muscles are in a cats ear?
About 20.
300
Who designed the ten-story Wainwright Building?
Louis Sullivan.
300
Who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic values to society?
Booker T. Washington.
300
What was a system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off debt to the employer.
Debt Peonage.
300
What was Coca-Cola's original purpose?
It was originally used as a cure for headaches.
300
How long was the world's largest cat?
48.5 inches long.
400
Who built the 285-foot Flatiron Building?
Daniel Burnham.
400
Who established a Sociology Department and why?
Henry Ford. To teach people the American way.
400
What was Racial Etiquette?
They were customs used to keep blacks as second class citizens.
400
Who were the two newspaper authors that competed with each other for attention?
Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst.
400
What is the technical term for "hairball"?
Bezoar.
500
How did new technologies make the building of skyscrapers practical?
Skyscrapers solved the practical problem of how to make the best use of limited and expensive space.
500
Who helped establish kindergarten in public schools?
William Torrey Harris.
500
What stated that you could vote if he, his father, or his grandfather could vote before January 1867.
The Grandfather Clause.
500
What brought peoples packages directly to their houses?
RFD or Rural Free Delivery.
500
How many cats did Abraham Lincoln keep in the White House with him?
4.