MAH-Chapter 8

Question 1

Who was the founder of the Realism movement?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Eakins

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

Sears & Roebuck

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

3%

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

90%

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Debt patronage, Debt patronage

Question 6

Who created the first skyscraper?

Accepted Answer

Louis Sullivan

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

WEB DuBois

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

Kindergarten

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

Wealthy Patrons

Question 10

Where is Central Park?

Accepted Answer

Manhattan

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

Poll tax

Question 12

Plessy v Ferguson established "separate but equal" where?

Accepted Answer

In all public places

Question 13

Where was the first Ferris Wheel?

Accepted Answer

Chicago, IL

Question 14

The Realism movement spawned all of the following EXCEPT?

Accepted Answer

Impressionism

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

Offer vocational courses

Question 16

Which newspaper owner pioneered the Sunday edition and comic section?

Accepted Answer

Joseph Pulitizer

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

1/8 Black

Question 18

Who created the Flatiron Building?

Accepted Answer

Daniel Burnham

Question 19

What new addition to the postal service increased shopping?

Accepted Answer

Both A and B

Question 20

What test prevented blacks from voting in some southern states?

Accepted Answer

Literacy test

Question 21

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

Accepted Answer

2 out of 100

Question 22

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

Accepted Answer

Photo-journalism

Question 23

Many were excluded from entering galleries and museums because?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 24

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

Accepted Answer

Richmond

Question 25

Bicycling changed what for women?

Accepted Answer

Fashion styles

Question 26

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

Accepted Answer

Private schools

Question 27

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

Accepted Answer

England

Question 28

This new snack is made in Pennsylvania?

Accepted Answer

Hershey's Chocolates

Question 29

Who created Central Park?

Accepted Answer

Frederick law Olmstead

Question 30

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

Accepted Answer

Vaudeville

Question 31

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

Accepted Answer

Mail-order catalogs

Question 32

New techniques in photography eliminated what?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 33

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

Accepted Answer

Both B & C

Question 34

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 35

How did most immigrants view public education?

Accepted Answer

Welcomed it

Question 36

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

Accepted Answer

Night school

Question 37

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

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 38

The US Postal Service adopted airplanes to establish?

Accepted Answer

Both B & C

Question 39

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

Accepted Answer

Linotype machine

Question 40

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

Accepted Answer

William Randolph Hearst

Question 41

Who introduced the "Bargain Basement"?

Accepted Answer

Marshall Field

Question 42

Who developed the Kodak camera?

Accepted Answer

George Eastman

Question 43

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

Accepted Answer

City parks

Question 44

What invention eased the problem of crowded spaces in cities?

Accepted Answer

Skyscrapers

Question 45

Who voiced an outrage over African American lynchings?

Accepted Answer

Ida B Wells

Question 46

When bicycling first began it was for..?

Accepted Answer

Men only

Question 47

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

Accepted Answer

Ragtime

Question 48

Booker T Washington founded which school?

Accepted Answer

Tuskegee Institute

Question 49

Dime novels often told tales of what?

Accepted Answer

Western adventures

Question 50

Who developed and designed the first airplane?

Accepted Answer

Wright Brothers

Question 51

Plessy v Ferguson established what legal precedent?

Accepted Answer

Separate But Equal

Question 52

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

Accepted Answer

Web-perfecting press

Question 53

Who wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

Accepted Answer

Mark Twain

Question 54

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

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow

Question 55

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

Accepted Answer

Morals and behavior

Question 56

Where was the first roller coaster?

Accepted Answer

Coney Island, NY

Question 57

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

Accepted Answer

Using advertisements

Question 58

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

Accepted Answer

3/4

Question 59

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

Accepted Answer

Baseball

Question 60

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

Accepted Answer

Department stores

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