MAH-Chapter 8

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Kindergarten

Question 2

Who developed the Kodak camera?

Accepted Answer

George Eastman

Question 3

In the early school system this was stressed and emphasized...?

Accepted Answer

Morals and behavior

Question 4

The first city to use underground cables to power electric transit was?

Accepted Answer

Richmond

Question 5

By 1900 what % of children in cities were attending school?

Accepted Answer

3/4

Question 6

Where is Central Park?

Accepted Answer

Manhattan

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

Baseball

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

Web-perfecting press

Question 9

Plessy v Ferguson established what legal precedent?

Accepted Answer

Separate But Equal

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

England

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

Mail-order catalogs

Question 12

What new addition to the postal service increased shopping?

Accepted Answer

Both A and B

Question 13

Who introduced the "Bargain Basement"?

Accepted Answer

Marshall Field

Question 14

Where was the first Ferris Wheel?

Accepted Answer

Chicago, IL

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

City parks

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

Using advertisements

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

Offer vocational courses

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

Both B & C

Question 19

What invention eased the problem of crowded spaces in cities?

Accepted Answer

Skyscrapers

Question 20

The Realism movement spawned all of the following EXCEPT?

Accepted Answer

Impressionism

Question 21

Plessy v Ferguson established "separate but equal" where?

Accepted Answer

In all public places

Question 22

Who voiced an outrage over African American lynchings?

Accepted Answer

Ida B Wells

Question 23

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 24

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

Accepted Answer

William Randolph Hearst

Question 25

Who wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

Accepted Answer

Mark Twain

Question 26

Who created Central Park?

Accepted Answer

Frederick law Olmstead

Question 27

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

Accepted Answer

Debt patronage, Debt patronage

Question 28

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

Accepted Answer

Department stores

Question 29

Many were excluded from entering galleries and museums because?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 30

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

Accepted Answer

Night school

Question 31

The US Postal Service adopted airplanes to establish?

Accepted Answer

Both B & C

Question 32

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

Accepted Answer

WEB DuBois

Question 33

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

Accepted Answer

2 out of 100

Question 34

Who developed and designed the first airplane?

Accepted Answer

Wright Brothers

Question 35

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

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 36

This new snack is made in Pennsylvania?

Accepted Answer

Hershey's Chocolates

Question 37

How did most immigrants view public education?

Accepted Answer

Welcomed it

Question 38

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

Accepted Answer

Vaudeville

Question 39

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

Accepted Answer

Wealthy Patrons

Question 40

Bicycling changed what for women?

Accepted Answer

Fashion styles

Question 41

What test prevented blacks from voting in some southern states?

Accepted Answer

Literacy test

Question 42

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

Accepted Answer

Ragtime

Question 43

Who created the first skyscraper?

Accepted Answer

Louis Sullivan

Question 44

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

Accepted Answer

Photo-journalism

Question 45

Who was the founder of the Realism movement?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Eakins

Question 46

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

Accepted Answer

Sears & Roebuck

Question 47

Where was the first roller coaster?

Accepted Answer

Coney Island, NY

Question 48

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

Accepted Answer

Poll tax

Question 49

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

Accepted Answer

3%

Question 50

New techniques in photography eliminated what?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 51

Dime novels often told tales of what?

Accepted Answer

Western adventures

Question 52

Which newspaper owner pioneered the Sunday edition and comic section?

Accepted Answer

Joseph Pulitizer

Question 53

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

Accepted Answer

Private schools

Question 54

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

Accepted Answer

1/8 Black

Question 55

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

Accepted Answer

90%

Question 56

Which machine allow full lines of print, making printing faster?

Accepted Answer

Linotype machine

Question 57

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

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow

Question 58

When bicycling first began it was for..?

Accepted Answer

Men only

Question 59

Booker T Washington founded which school?

Accepted Answer

Tuskegee Institute

Question 60

Who created the Flatiron Building?

Accepted Answer

Daniel Burnham

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