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WorksheetsChapter 16 Life at the Turn of the 20TH Century
Total questions: 56
Worksheet time: 3580secs
Which of the following best describes what the Wrights achieved at Kitty Hawk?
The first safe and practical flying machine
The longest flight by a piloted craft up to that point
The first flying machine to carry multiple passengers
The first flight by a powered, controlled aircraft
He is the founder of the Kodak corporation (1888) and invented paper based film.
Edweard Muybridge
George Eastman
Luis Daguerre
James Clerk Maxwell
Booker T Washington and WEB DuBois both agreed
white people are superior
the telephone is the best invention
Education for African-Americans is important
Equal rights for all
In 1909, who helped found the NAACP?
Booker T Washington
Alexander Graham Bell
WEB DuBois
Thomas Edison
What was one of the results of Plessy v. Ferguson?
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Plessy saying segregation was illegal.
The Supreme Court never made a ruling.
The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal.
These were any type of law that discriminated against people based on race.
14th Amendment
State laws
Federal laws
Jim Crow laws
A tax of a fixed amount per persons that had to be paid before the person could vote.
Poll Tax
Literacy Test
Jim Crow Laws
Grandfather Clause
A article that allowed individuals who did not pass the literacy test to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted before Reconstruction began.
Poll Tax
Black Codes
Grandfather Clause
Jim Crow Laws
Land or business owner forces a worker to pay off a debt with work. Workers are often unable to re-pay the debt, and find themselves in a continuous work-without-pay cycle.
Carpetbagger
Ku Klux klan
Radical Republican
Debt Peonage
Yellow Journalism is...
reporters who leave the scene of an event early
real news that has been dulled down to
please the audience
journalists who yell at their audience
sensationalized (embellished or made up stories to hook readers)
The use of shocking language or ideas to excite people
Influence
Evidence
Reasoning
Sensationalism
As women began making their way into professional jobs, they worked mainly in
law, engineering, and ministry
education, health care, and social work
science, music, and manufacturing
architecture, textiles, and law
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was
an example of yellow journalism
a popular magazine in the late 1800's
a popular novel with local color
the name of a vaudeville show
What effect did bicycling and other sports have on women's clothing?
made clothing more practical
made wearing pants acceptable
forced women to wear corsets
forces women to wear hats
Which of the following were popular forms of entertainment in the late 1800's?
vaudeville
moving picures
trolley parks
all of the above
What did W.E.B. Du Bois encourage students to seek in school?
a vocational education
a liberal arts education
basic literacy
agricultural skills
What did Booker T. Washington tell his students to focus on in school?
political equality
leadership skills
economic security
plenty of opportunities
How did immigrants regard public eduction?
as an aid to assimilation
as a threat to cultural heritage
as a path to advancement
all of the above
Why did parents pressure local governments to reform public schools?
to prepare their children for college
to extend their children's knowledge beyond the basic skills
to keep their children out of criminal activity
to provide opportunities for sports and other extracurricular activities
What was implemented to test comprehension skills of primarily African Americans in the South and prevent them from voting?
literacy test
poll tax
grandfather clause
Jim Crow laws
What allowed people to vote, even if they failed a test, in the South if their previous ancestors were able to vote?
literacy test
poll tax
Jim Crow laws
grandfather clause
What was passed in the South that separated black and white people in public and private spaces?
literacy test
poll tax
grandfather clause
Jim Crow laws
What Supreme Court Case said that Jim Crows laws did not violate the 14th Amendment and that segregation was constitutional?
Illinois v. Munn
Plessy v. Ferguson
Madison v. Marbury
Brown v. Board of Education
What did Mexican workers in the West face that bound workers to pay off their debts to employers through labor?
14th Amendment
Jim Crow laws
debt peonage
grandfather clause
Which of the following was NOT a goal of the reformers when it came to education?
prepare children for active participation in their communities
having an educated workforce
immediately include as many African Americans as possible in the education system
provide children with a place to be now that child labor laws forbade them from working
What did W.E.B. Du Bois encourage students to seek in school?
a vocational education
a liberal arts education
basic literacy
agricultural skills
In the Plessy v Ferguson decision, the court ruled that the doctrine of ___________________________ was legal.
the same but different facilities
separate but equal facilities
Unequal but separate
all of the above
The inventor of the popular roll-film camera was...
George Eastman
George Pullman
George Washington
Phil Harmonic
Two of the pioneers in catalog sales were
Montgomery Ward and Macy's
Marshall Fields and Macy's
Montgomery Ward and Sears
it was only Sears that was a pioneer in catalog sales
Who was the African American leader that believed in accepting segregation for the moment and focusing on getting farming and job skills?
W. E. B. Du Bois
Booker T. Washington
NAACP
Jim Crow
Who believed that African Americans should focus on improving their farming and job skills?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Booker T. Washington
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Where did the Wright Brothers first flight take place?
Warner Robins Air Force Base
Charlotte, North Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
_____ was an African American leader who felt he should "demand" equal rights and he campaign for voting rights.
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B Du Bois
Ida B. Wells
Homer Plessy
Vaudeville began to slowly die due to which 2 new media forms?
Internet and WiFi
Radio and Motion Pictures
Automobiles and Trains
Hotels and Boarding Houses
Vaudeville was a type of entertainment popular in the U.S. in the early 1900s. What kind of entertainment did they show?
Sports
Variety acts
Movies
Radio
Which of the following would you NOT find at a Vaudeville show?
Comedians
Movies
Musicians
Dancers
How did ragtime start?
Ragtime started by blending African and European musical traditions.
This person, along with Hearst, created the New York Newspaper Wars of the 1890s.
Joseph Pulitzer
Nellie Bly
Charles Foster Kane
William Henderson
Choose all of the following qualities that constitute yellow journalism.
color supplementation
scare headlines
sensationalized stories
deceiving information
What is Clickbait?
an online library of secret government documents
fake news
a new type of fishing lure
a sensationalized text that encourages you to click a link
The use of shocking language or ideas to excite people
Influence
Evidence
Reasoning
Sensationalism
Fake News or Real News?
Fake
Real
Yellow Journalism is...
reporters who leave the scene of an event early
real news that has been dulled down to
please the audience
journalists who yell at their audience
sensationalized (embellished or made up stories to hook readers)
