Multiple Choice Identify the choice that
best completes the statement or answers the question.
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In the late 1800s, suburbs grew rapidly with the development of
a. | subways. | c. | new railroad lines. | b. | electric streetcars. | d. | suspension
bridges |
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The Linotype machine greatly improved the efficiency of
a. | typesetting. | c. | printing photographs | b. | two-sided printing | d. | producing pulp
paper |
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What did the first Kodak camera make possible?
a. | color photography | c. | delayed photo processing | b. | photographic
portraits | d. | instant picture
development |
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4.
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During the late 1800s, public elementary schools emphasized all of the following
except
a. | strict discipline. | c. | rote memorization | b. | citizenship skills | d. | job-training
courses |
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5.
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Booker T. Washington was known for supporting the idea of
a. | maintaining things as they were | c. | gradual movement toward
integration | b. | rapid movement toward integration | d. | separating the races, but with true equality of
services. |
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6.
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What formally legalized racial segregation?
a. | Jim Crow laws | c. | Plessy v. Ferguson | b. | grandfather
clauses | d. | United States
v. Reese |
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All of the following became popular right around the turn of the century
except
a. | air travel. | c. | vaudeville | b. | the circus. | d. | amusement parks |
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W. E. B. Du Bois was known for advocating
a. | maintaining things as they were | c. | gradual movement toward
integration | b. | rapid movement toward integration | d. | separating the races, but with true equality of
services |
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Use of the web-perfecting press resulted in reading materials that were
a. | sturdier | c. | printed on glossy paper. | b. | less
expensive | d. | more lavishly
illustrate |
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Southern states sometimes used a grandfather clause to allow them to
a. | keep poor whites from exercising their right to vote | c. | keep African Americans from voting
while allowing whites to do so | b. | distinguish between recent immigrants and
established citizens | d. | deny
voting rights to African Americans who passed the literacy test. |
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Jim Crow laws
a. | separated the races | c. | denied voting rights to African Americans | b. | denied citizenship
to Asian immigrants | d. | promoted discrimination against women. |
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12.
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The main purpose of World reporter Nellie Bly’s trip around the
world was to
a. | get publicity for the World newspaper | c. | show its support for women’s
issues | b. | prove that air travel was safe | d. | get international news before its
competitors |
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In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled
that
a. | lynching was a federal crime | c. | voting rights could not be tied to
any form of tax | b. | school segregation was unconstitutional | d. | racial segregation in public accommodations
such as trains and busses was legal |
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Completion Complete each
statement.
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Booker T. Washington W.E.B. Du Bois Mark Twain painter African
American
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By 1910, most_____ children continued to be prohibited from attending public
elementary and high schools.
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15.
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_____ was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard
University. He believed that African Americans should earn degrees in liberal arts in order to
provide the African-American community with well-educated leaders.
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_____ founded Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in an effort to enable
African Americans to teach and to do agricultural, domestic, or mechanical work. “No
race,” he said, “can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a
field as in writing a poem.”
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Thomas Eakins was an American _____ who embraced realism, the belief that art
and literature should present life in a realistic manner
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18.
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American novelist _____ wrote humorous works and adventure stories, such as
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that have since become accepted as classics of American
literature
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Matching
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a. | skyscraper | f. | Linotype machine | b. | Central Park | g. | George Eastman | c. | Louis
Sullivan | h. | web-perfecting
press | d. | Brooklyn Bridge | i. | Frederick Law Olmsted | e. | Daniel Burnham | j. | Orville and Wilbur
Wright |
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He invented the Kodak camera.
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20.
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These pioneer aviators helped to make airmail possible.
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This machine made the process of setting type more efficient.
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22.
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Elevators and steel supports helped to make this land saver possible
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23.
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This farmer, surveyor and journalist spearheaded the movement for planned urban
parks
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24.
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This eigth wonder of the world connected Brooklyn to Manhattan in New York
City in 1883
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25.
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This was intended to sooth the inhabitants of New York City and let them enjo a
natural setting
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26.
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This architectural pioneer designed the proud and soaring ten story Wainwright
building in St. Louis Missouri
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27.
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This architect created an overall plan for Chicago that included a lakefront of
curving banks of grass and sandy beaches
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28.
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This machine allowed paper to be printed on both sides, rather than on
just one side, and then cut folded an counted pages
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a. poll tax d. literacy test g. Jim Crow laws j. Booker T. Washington b.
lynching e. Ida B. Wells h. grandfather clause k. United States v. Reese c.
segregation f. debt peonage i. Plessy v. Ferguson
a. | poll tax | g. | Jim Crow
laws | b. | lynching | h. | grandfather clause | c. | segregation | i. | Plessy v.
Ferguson | d. | literacy test | j. | Booker T. Washington | e. | Ida B. Wells | k. | United States v.
Reese | f. | debt peonage |
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29.
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This term is used to refer to any system of separating people on the basis
of race.
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30.
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This African-American newspaper reporter was forced to flee the South after
editorializing against the illegal executions of three frie
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These laws were passed in the South to prevent white and black people from
intermixing and to prevent blacks from achieving equality.
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This had to be paid to gain access to the voting booth in many Southern
states. It effectively kept both poor blacks and poor whites from voting.
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This was added to the constitutions of several Southern states to enable
white people to vote who may have been kept from doing so by other restrictions
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34.
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This was given in the South to African Americans by voter
registration officials. Some versions were in foreign languages; others were more difficult
than the versions given to white voters.
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35.
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This is a system of involuntary labor. After slavery was abolished, Mexicans
and African Americans living in the West and Southwest were often forced into this system.
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36.
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This Supreme Court decision ruled that separation of the races in public
accommodations was legal and did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. It established the
principle of “separate but equal” that would rule Southern racial relations for almost
60 years
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a. | Mark Twain | g. | Thomas Eakins | b. | Ida B. Wells | h. | Daniel Burnham | c. | Marshall
Field | i. | George
Eastman | d. | Joseph Pulitzer | j. | Booker T. Washington | e. | W. E. B. Du Bois | k. | Frederick Law Olmsted | f. | Louis
Sullivan | l. | Orville and Wilbur
Wright |
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37.
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Who opened the first department store?
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38.
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Who scorned “literature and all that bosh” yet wrote books that
are today considered classics?
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39.
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Whose invention replaced glass photographic plates with film?
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40.
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Who studied anatomy in order to make his paintings realistic?
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Who believed that well-educated African-American leaders should attempt to be
immediately included in mainstream American life?
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42.
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Who competed with William Randolph Hearst to capture a mass audience for his
newspapers?
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43.
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Who described the skyscraper he designed as “a proud and soaring
thing” and taught Frank Lloyd Wright?
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44.
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Who was a prominent designer of urban parks and worked on plans for them in
Boston and New York?
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Who was forced to flee the South after editorializing against lynching?
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46.
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Who founded a school that emphasized practical skills in such areas as farming
and teaching?
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47.
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Who planned Chicago’s lakefront and operated under the belief that little
plans “have no magic to stir men’s blood”?
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48.
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Who designed the biplane that flew successfully at Kitty Hawk?
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a. | Mark Twain | n. | George Eastman | b. | Booker T. Washington | o. | Jim Crow laws | c. | debt peonage
| p. | William Randolph Hearst
| d. | Louis Sullivan | q. | Linotype machine | e. | rural free delivery
| r. | Joseph Pulitzer
| f. | Orville and Wilbur Wright | s. | Frederick Law Olmsted | g. | segregation | t. | vaudeville | h. | grandfather clause
| u. | literacy test
| i. | Central Park | v. | W. E. B. Du Bois | j. | department store | w. | mail-order catalog | k. | ragtime | x. | Thomas Eakins | l. | web-perfecting press | y. | Daniel Burnham | m. | Ida B. Wells
| z. | Plessy v. Ferguson
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Chicago architect
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Performances that included song, dance, and comedy
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Early leader of architecture. Architecture is the science
of building buildings
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Publisher of the New York Morning Journal
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Popular American artist and painter
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54.
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Book from which consumers could buy goods
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Court case that upheld the Jim Crow laws
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Publisher of the Worldnewspaper
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Brothers who developed and flew the first airplane
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American reformer who tried to end lynching
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Developer of Central Park, a park in New York city that is still in use
today
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Large store that sold a variety of goods. Usually located in the downtown area
of the city. Store such as Macy’s.
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Popular American novelist who wrote Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
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System that brought packages directly to homes
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Machine that made typesetting easier
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Prominent African-American scholar who believed that racial equality would come
when African Americans were educated
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The word used to describe racial separation
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Large park located in middle of New York City
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music that combined African American and European sounds
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Inventor of the camera who started Kodac photography company
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helped keep whites and blacks separate
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70.
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given to voters to determine whether they could read
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A system in which a person is forced to work to pay off debts
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Machine that printed on both sides of a paper roll
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First African American Ph.D., who became a writer and activist for civil
rights
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allowed poor, uneducated whites to vote
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