Chapter 8 Life at the Turn of the 20th Century

Who invented roll film cameras called kodak?

• Mark Twain
• George Eastman
• Marshall Field
• Louis Sullivan

He competed with Joseph Pulitzer and published sensational stories in his newspaper.

• Ida. B Wells
• William Randolph Hearst
• Mark Twain
• George Eastman

What was the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson?

• Separate but not equal
• Jim Crow Laws
• Separate but Equal
• Lynching laws

Who expressed the belief that racism would end as African Americans acquired practical work skills?

• W.E.B. DuBois
• Ida B. Wells
• Louis Sullivan
• Booker T. Washington

Who was responsible for planning urban parks, Forrest and Central Parks?

• Louis Sullivan
• Daniel Burnham
• Frederick Law Olmstead
• George Eastman

Who founded the Tuskegee Institute to develop job skills?

• Daniel Burnham
• W.E.B. DuBois
• Ida B. Wells
• Booker T. Washington

Which of the following was NOT segregated according to the Jim Crow Laws?

• Schools
• Poll Booths
• Hospitals
• Church

The U.S. Postal service introduced a new system to boost the mail-order business called?

• USD Delivery
• Fed Ex Delivery
• UPS Delivery
• RFD Delivery

Mexican workers were forced into a system of slavery to work off a debt to their employer is called what?

• Segregation
• Debt Peonage
• Minstrel
• Jim Crow Laws

Which two American inventors are credited with creating the first successful airplane in the world?

• Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright

• Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell and Henry Ford

• George Washington Carver and Levi Strauss