A New Century

What was Booker T. Washington’s new educational idea?

• frequent testing

• learning by doing

• mind palace technique

• mind-body connection

How many years passed between when Pattie Ruffner Jacobs started the Birmingham Equal Suffrage Association and when women received the right to vote?

• 3

• 6

• 9

• 12

What is a dogtrot house?

• a building next to a dog race track

• a house with a dog kennel out back

• a house just a “dog trot” away from Main Street

• a house where early settlers lived

How did some Southern governments find a way to discriminate against African Americans after the Civil War?

• They rewrote their constitution.

• They snuck discriminatory laws into larger Congressional bills.

• They closed down the State Ethics Administration buildings.

• They kept using pre-Civil War law books.

Approximately how many African American soldiers served between 1917–1919 in World War II?

• 3,500

• 35,000

• 350,000

• 3,500,000

Which person started first grade as a 33-year-old, but ended up becoming a teacher in Africa?

• Richmond Pearson Hobson

• W.C Handy

• Hellen Keller

• Maria Fearing

Helen Keller was the first deaf and blind person to graduate from

• preschool

• middle school

• high school

• college

Jim Crow laws were laws segregating and discriminating against African Americans.

• True

• False

What two new kinds of schools were founded in Alabama in 1872?

• culinary school and journalism college

• performing arts school and political science college

• theology school and anthropology college

• normal school and land grant college

Which of the following was not one of the Populist Party’s ideas?

• lower railroad rates on farm products

• put more money into circulation

• repeal the 17th Amendment

• allow all voters to vote on U.S. senators