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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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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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
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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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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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Matching
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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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14.
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Who opened the first
department store?
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15.
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Who scorned “literature
and all that bosh” yet wrote books that are
today considered classics?
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Whose invention replaced glass
photographic plates with film?
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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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19.
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Who competed with William
Randolph Hearst to capture a mass audience for his newspapers?
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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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21.
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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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22.
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Who was forced to flee the
South after editorializing against lynching?
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Who founded a school that
emphasized practical skills in such areas as farming and teaching?
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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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25.
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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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27.
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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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30.
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Popular American artist and
painter
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31.
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Book from which consumers
could buy goods
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32.
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Court case that upheld the Jim
Crow laws
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33.
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Publisher of the
Worldnewspaper
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34.
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Brothers who developed and
flew the first airplane
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35.
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American reformer who tried to
end lynching
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36.
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Developer of Central Park, a
park in New York city that is still in use today
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37.
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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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38.
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Popular American novelist who
wrote Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
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39.
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System that brought packages
directly to homes
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40.
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Machine that made typesetting
easier
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41.
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Prominent African-American
scholar who believed that racial equality would come when African Americans were
educated
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42.
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The word used to describe
racial separation
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43.
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Large park located in middle
of New York City
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44.
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music that combined African
American and European sounds
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45.
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Inventor of the camera who
started Kodac photography company
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46.
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helped keep whites and blacks
separate
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47.
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given to voters to determine
whether they could read
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48.
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A system in which a person is
forced to work to pay off debts
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49.
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Machine that printed on both
sides of a paper roll
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50.
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First African American Ph.D.,
who became a writer and activist for civil rights
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51.
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allowed poor, uneducated
whites to vote
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