Wrote humorous works and adventure stories that have become accepted as classics of American literature.
Who is Mark Twain?
100
African American man who sued the Louisiana Trolly Co. for removing him from an all White trolly car.
Who is Homer Plessy?
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
One name that is famous for turn of the century entertainment. Ex. Silent Movie Actor, Circus Producer, Vaudeville performer, etc.
Charlie Chaplin, Mae West, P.T. Barnum, etc.
200
He invented the Phonograph in 1877?
Who is Thomas Edison?
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
Famous African American composer of Ragtime music such as "Maple Leaf Rag."
Who is Scott Joplin?
300
He invented the first electric washing machine in 1908?
Who is Alva J. Fisher?
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
African American businesswoman who became very successful selling beauty products through mail-order catalogs.
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
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
The three obstacles faced by Women and African Americans trying to go to college at the turn of the century.
What is access, discrimination, and prejudice?
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
Many people believe she coined the term "birth control." She was a NYC nurse who helped distribute information about birth control.
Who is Margaret Sanger?
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.