Inventions
People
Education
Discrimination
People
100
Made flight possible.
What is the airplane?
100
Inventors of the first successful aircraft.
Who was Orville and Wilbur Wright?
100
This group of teenagers was unlikely to receive high school and college educations.
What were African-Americans?
100
Put in place to keep African-Americans from voting.
What was the grandfather clause, poll tax, literacy test?
100
Owned Carnegie Steel.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
200
Made printing books, magazines and newspapers affordable.
What are high speed presses?
200
Believed race relations would get better as more African-Americans received job training.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
200
The college founded by Booker T. Washington for African-American students.
What is Tuskeegee Normal and Industrial Institute?
200
General name given to laws that restricted African-American voting.
What is "Jim Crow" laws?
200
Owned Standard Oil.
Who was John Rockefeller?
300
Allowed the linking of city sections.
What are suspension bridges?
300
Inventor of the Kodak camera.
Who is George Eastman?
300
Increased education in America led to an increase in this, the ability to read.
What is literacy?
300
Supreme Court case that allowed segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
Created first electric cooperatives.
Who was Thomas Edison?
400
Created more housing in cities.
What are skyscrapers?
400
Former slave, became a teacher and newspaper editor.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
400
Increased education was meant to improve these things for Americans.
What are job opportunities, participation in civic affairs?
400
These were informal rules for black-white relations.
What was racial etiquette?
400
Created the idea of the chain store.
Who was Woolworth?
500
Moving pictures.
What is film?
500
Pushed for radical changes for African-Americans.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
500
This was the term that describes mandatory public education.
What is compulsory education?
500
List two ethnic groups who faced discrimination.
What were Mexicans, African-Americans, Chinese, Irish?
500
Created Central Park.
Who was Frederick Law Olmstead?