US II - Chap 8 Review

Question 1

Who was the voice calling for "immediate black integration" into white society?

Accepted Answer

WEB DuBois

Question 2

What kind of music took the 1900's by storm?

Accepted Answer

Ragtime

Question 3

Who the most AWESOMEST teacher ever?

Accepted Answer

Miss De Mott, Miss De Mott, Miss De Mott, Miss De Mott

Question 4

If African Americans did not follow social etiquette rules what would happen?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 5

Who is responsible for the building of the majority of all art galleries and museums?

Accepted Answer

Wealthy Patrons

Question 6

Photography advances cause a new career field to emerge...which?

Accepted Answer

Photo-journalism

Question 7

Magazines, newspapers and movie-houses made money doing what?

Accepted Answer

Using advertisements

Question 8

This educational initiative was introduced to helping working mothers...?

Accepted Answer

Kindergarten

Question 9

What invention eased the problem of crowded spaces in cities?

Accepted Answer

Skyscrapers

Question 10

Plessy v Ferguson established what legal precedent?

Accepted Answer

Separate But Equal

Question 11

Who wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

Accepted Answer

Mark Twain

Question 12

By the turn of the century this many students had a college diploma?

Accepted Answer

2 out of 100

Question 13

Many adult immigrants who wanted an education attended...?

Accepted Answer

Night school

Question 14

In what decade did free public education become first available to African Americans?

Accepted Answer

1940's

Question 15

Around the turn of the century where did most African American students attend school?

Accepted Answer

Private schools

Question 16

Who created the first skyscraper?

Accepted Answer

Louis Sullivan

Question 17

What type of urban planning was done to alleviate the stress of city life?

Accepted Answer

City parks

Question 18

By 1900 colleges dropped the study of Greek and Latin for?

Accepted Answer

Both B & C

Question 19

Although many students were attending school longer, most did not earn a diploma because?

Accepted Answer

They went to work

Question 20

This sport was so popular, traveling teams began after the Civil War...?

Accepted Answer

Baseball

Question 21

By 1900 about how many students wee enrolled in high schools?

Accepted Answer

1,000,000

Question 22

The Chines Exclusion Act stopped what?

Accepted Answer

Becoming a citizen

Question 23

Mexican immigrants often worked what type of jobs?

Accepted Answer

Farming

Question 24

When bicycling first began it was for..?

Accepted Answer

Men only

Question 25

Coca-Cola was invented to do what?

Accepted Answer

Cure a headache

Question 26

Where was the first Ferris Wheel?

Accepted Answer

Chicago, IL

Question 27

Which newspaper owner pioneered the Sunday edition and comic section?

Accepted Answer

Joseph Pulitizer

Question 28

Many Catholics disliked American schools because...?

Accepted Answer

Readings from the King James Bible

Question 29

In the case of Plessy v Ferguson, Homer A. Plessy was ...?

Accepted Answer

1/8 Black

Question 30

In racial etiquette terms, what was supposed to happen if whites and blacks met in the street?

Accepted Answer

Blacks give deference to whites

Question 31

Up until the turn of the century, most students only went to school to what grade?

Accepted Answer

8th

Question 32

The Realism movement spawned all of the following EXCEPT?

Accepted Answer

Impressionism

Question 33

Which tax was created to make it a hardship for African Americans to vote?

Accepted Answer

Poll tax

Question 34

Coca-Cola was invented by?

Accepted Answer

A pharmacist

Question 35

Bicycling changed what for women?

Accepted Answer

Fashion styles

Question 36

What is it called when workers are tied to landowners/businesses until they pay what they owe?

Accepted Answer

Debt patronage, Debt patronage

Question 37

What new addition to the postal service increased shopping?

Accepted Answer

Both A and B

Question 38

Thanks to education initiatives, what % of the public were literate by 1900?

Accepted Answer

90%

Question 39

Many rural and small town customers used what mail-order catalog?

Accepted Answer

Sears & Roebuck

Question 40

Tennis became a craze in America, but where did it start?

Accepted Answer

England

Question 41

Who developed the Kodak camera?

Accepted Answer

George Eastman

Question 42

FW Woolworth created the "5 and Dime". How could he sell goods so cheaply?

Accepted Answer

Bought in bulk

Question 43

The first wave of segregation laws created in the south were called...?

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow

Question 44

This new snack is made in Pennsylvania?

Accepted Answer

Hershey's Chocolates

Question 45

What new creation allowed shoppers to stay in one building for all their needs?

Accepted Answer

Department stores

Question 46

Who voiced an outrage over African American lynchings?

Accepted Answer

Ida B Wells

Question 47

By 1910 about how many African Americans were attending high schools?

Accepted Answer

3%

Question 48

by 1895, 31 states passed laws requiring how many weeks of school?

Accepted Answer

12-16 weeks

Question 49

Who created Central Park?

Accepted Answer

Frederick law Olmstead

Question 50

Plessy v Ferguson established "separate but equal" where?

Accepted Answer

In all public places

Question 51

What new creation allowed shoppers to purchase goods far away from stores?

Accepted Answer

Mail-order catalogs

Question 52

Dime novels often told tales of what?

Accepted Answer

Western adventures

Question 53

How did most immigrants view public education?

Accepted Answer

Welcomed it

Question 54

The rise of the Industrial Age caused schools to include what?

Accepted Answer

Offer vocational courses

Question 55

Which machine printed on both sides of paper, cut and folded it?

Accepted Answer

Web-perfecting press

Question 56

What immigrant group often lived in debt peonage?

Accepted Answer

Mexicans

Question 57

Who was the founder of the Realism movement?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Eakins

Question 58

What was "America's Got Talent" show of the 1900's?

Accepted Answer

Vaudeville

Question 59

Who used the false claim of the conquest of Mars to sell newspapers?

Accepted Answer

William Randolph Hearst

Question 60

Which is NOT an African American college?

Accepted Answer

Mass. Institute of Technology

Question 61

This sport was often broadcast by radio in large group settings?

Accepted Answer

Boxing

Question 62

The name Jim Crow comes from?

Accepted Answer

A vaudeville minstrel act

Question 63

What test prevented blacks from voting in some southern states?

Accepted Answer

Literacy test

Question 64

Many were excluded from entering galleries and museums because?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

US II - Chap 8 Review

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US II - Chap 8 Review

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