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HIS CH-8 TURN OF THE CENTURY


Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

 1. 

In the late 1800s, suburbs grew rapidly with the development of
a.
subways.
c.
new railroad lines.
b.
electric streetcars.
d.
suspension bridges
 

 2. 

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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 3. 

What did the first Kodak camera make possible?
a.
color photography
c.
delayed photo processing
b.
photographic portraits
d.
instant picture development
 

 4. 

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. 

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.
 

 6. 

What formally legalized racial segregation?
a.
Jim Crow laws
c.
Plessy v. Ferguson
b.
grandfather clauses
d.
United States v. Reese
 

 7. 

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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 8. 

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
 

 9. 

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
 

 10. 

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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 11. 

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.
 

 12. 

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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 13. 

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
 

Matching
 
 
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
 

 14. 

Who opened the first department store?
 

 15. 

Who scorned “literature and all that bosh” yet wrote books that are
today considered classics?
 

 16. 

Whose invention replaced glass photographic plates with film?
 

 17. 

Who studied anatomy in order to make his paintings realistic?
 

 18. 

Who believed that well-educated African-American leaders should attempt to be immediately included in mainstream American life?
 

 19. 

Who competed with William Randolph Hearst to capture a mass audience for his newspapers?
 

 20. 

Who described the skyscraper he designed as “a proud and soaring thing” and taught Frank Lloyd Wright?
 

 21. 

Who was a prominent designer of urban parks and worked on plans for them in Boston and New York?
 

 22. 

Who was forced to flee the South after editorializing against lynching?
 

 23. 

Who founded a school that emphasized practical skills in such areas as farming and teaching?
 

 24. 

Who planned Chicago’s lakefront and operated under the belief that little plans “have no magic to stir men’s blood”?
 

 25. 

Who designed the biplane that flew successfully at Kitty Hawk?
 
 
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
 

 26. 

Chicago architect
 

 27. 

Performances that included song, dance, and comedy
 

 28. 

Early leader of architecture. Architecture is the science of building buildings
 

 29. 

Publisher of the New York Morning Journal
 

 30. 

Popular American artist and painter
 

 31. 

Book from which consumers could buy goods
 

 32. 

Court case that upheld the Jim Crow laws
 

 33. 

Publisher of the Worldnewspaper
 

 34. 

Brothers who developed and flew the first airplane
 

 35. 

American reformer who tried to end lynching
 

 36. 

Developer of Central Park, a park in New York city that is still in use today
 

 37. 

Large store that sold a variety of goods. Usually located in the downtown area of the city. Store such as Macy’s.
 

 38. 

Popular American novelist who wrote Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
 

 39. 

System that brought packages directly to homes
 

 40. 

Machine that made typesetting easier
 

 41. 

Prominent African-American scholar who believed that racial equality would come when African Americans were educated
 

 42. 

The word used to describe racial separation
 

 43. 

Large park located in middle of New York City
 

 44. 

music that combined African American and European sounds
 

 45. 

Inventor of the camera who started Kodac photography company
 

 46. 

helped keep whites and blacks separate
 

 47. 

given to voters to determine whether they could read
 

 48. 

A system in which a person is forced to work to pay off debts
 

 49. 

Machine that printed on both sides of a paper roll
 

 50. 

First African American Ph.D., who became a writer and activist for civil rights
 

 51. 

allowed poor, uneducated whites to vote
 



 
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