Turn of the Century and Discrimination

Question 1

Who experienced the first sustained flight of a powered aircraft in American history?

Accepted Answer

Wright Brothers

Question 2

Which man? - Believed in achieving a VOCATIONAL education?

Accepted Answer

Booker T. Washington

Question 3

The Ashcan School, and other artists and writers at the turn-of-the-century, focused on

Accepted Answer

realism.

Question 4

A mob killing without a fair trial

Accepted Answer

Lynching

Question 5

What did Frederick Olmstead and David Burnham do for cities?

Accepted Answer

Began urban planning and city parks.

Question 6

Which of the following was NOT a part of the retail revolution at the turn-of-the-century?

Accepted Answer

Shopping in large shopping malls.

Question 7

What was the name of the first silent film?

Accepted Answer

The Great Train Robbery

Question 8

This Supreme Court case legalized segregation for 60 years with "separate but equal"

Accepted Answer

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 9

Which man? - Believed in GRADUAL racial improvement

Accepted Answer

Booker T. Washington

Question 10

Cities could expand upward and outward with skyscrapers and bridges with the availability of

Accepted Answer

Steel.

Question 11

Cities expanded OUTWARD with all of the following means of public transport EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

city buses.

Question 12

Which of the following was NOT a popular past time at the turn-of-the-century?

Accepted Answer

Watching Television

Question 13

Also nicknamed "Jim Crow" laws, these were laws that legally separated the races

Accepted Answer

Segregation Laws

Question 14

To reinstate poor, white voters, this said you could vote if your grandfather could on 1-1-1867

Accepted Answer

Grandfather Clause

Question 15

Which of the following is NOT TRUE about colleges at the turn-of-the-century?

Accepted Answer

Many African American students attended

Question 16

A tax to vote paid by Southern voters (to keep blacks from voting)

Accepted Answer

Poll Tax

Question 17

Why were literacy tests enforced on both blacks and whites?

Accepted Answer

To not violate the 14th and 15th Amendments

Question 18

Which man? - Was a former slave who founded the Tuskegee Institute

Accepted Answer

Booker T. Washington

Question 19

Which of the following became the model of the American amusement park?

Accepted Answer

Coney Island

Question 20

What new type of journalism focused on "sin, sex, and sensation?"

Accepted Answer

Yellow Journalism

Question 21

What is the term for cheap, traveling variety shows that drew in diverse crowds?

Accepted Answer

Vaudeville

Question 22

Which man? - Was a founder of the NAACP?

Accepted Answer

W.E.B. Du Bois

Question 23

Tried to expose lynching through newspaper articles but was threatened with lynching

Accepted Answer

Ida Wells

Question 24

A test required to prove you could read and write to vote; often harsher on blacks

Accepted Answer

Literacy Test

Question 25

What was the popular music at the turn-of-the-century called?

Accepted Answer

Ragtime

Question 26

What two newspaper magnates at the turn-of-the-century competed for circulation?

Accepted Answer

Hearst and Pulitzer

Question 27

The two major spectator sports at the turn-of-the-century were

Accepted Answer

Baseball and boxing.

Question 28

Which man? - Believed in IMMEDIATE racial improvement?

Accepted Answer

W.E.B. Du Bois

Question 29

What is George Eastman known for (hint: 100 sent to you in the first roll)?

Accepted Answer

Kodak Camera

Question 30

Which man? - Believed in achieving a LIBERAL ARTS education?

Accepted Answer

W.E.B. Du Bois

Question 31

What places were a training ground for the workplace and a place to "Americanize" immigrants?

Accepted Answer

Public Schools

Question 32

True or false - Discrimination only happened in the South

Accepted Answer

False

Question 33

Which man? - Was the first African American to graduate with a PhD from Harvard?

Accepted Answer

W.E.B. Du Bois

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