Name: _______________________________________________
Date: __________
Select the letter of the term, name, or phrase that best completes the statement.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Frederick Law Olmsted
George Eastman
Louis Sullivan
Marshall Field
W.E.B. Du Bois
Mark Twain
William Randolph Hearst
Ida B. Wells
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Booker T. Washington
____ 1. The inventor of the popular roll-film camera was _______________________.
____ 2. In Chicago, _______________________ opened the first department store in the nation.
____ 3. The landscape architect _______________________ led the movement for planned urban parks.
____ 4. The first skyscraper was designed by _______________________.
____ 5. According to _______________________, educated blacks should immediately join the
mainstream of society.
____ 6. The first powered airplane was developed by _______________________.
____ 7. By writing and lecturing, _______________________ tried to end the lynching of African
Americans.
____ 8. Novelist and humorist _______________________ wrote books that have become American
classics.
____ 9. The Tuskegee Institute was founded by _______________________ to help African Americans
develop useful job skills.
____ 10. Competing with Joseph Pulitzer, _______________________ published sensational stories in his
newspapers.
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Using the exhibit, choose the letter of the best answer.
____ 11. What does this map show?
A. total U.S. population from 1790 to 2000
B. centers of U.S. population from 1790 to 2000
C. population of the 22 largest U.S. cities
D. change in U.S. population between 1790 and 2000
____ 12. In which state was the center of population located in 1900?
A. West Virginia
B. Ohio
C. Indiana
D. Illinois
____ 13. In which general direction did the center of population shift from 1790 to 1900?
A. north
B. east
C. south
D. west
____ 14. Approximately how far, in miles, did the center of population shift between 1790 and 1900?
A. about 100 miles
B. about 275 miles
C. about 575 miles
D. about 700 miles
____ 15. In which direction did the center of population shift between 1890 and 1900?
A. northwest
B. Northeast
C. southwest
D. southeast
Choose the letter of the best answer.
____ 16. The factor that prevented the greatest number of children from attending public high schools was
A. racism.
B. poverty.
C. language differences.
D. transportation problems.
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____ 17. Southern states sometimes used a grandfather clause to allow them to
A. keep uneducated whites from exercising their right to vote.
B. distinguish between recent immigrants and longtime citizens.
C. keep African Americans from voting while allowing whites to do so.
D. deny voting rights to African Americans who passed the literacy test.
____ 18. Cities in the late 19th century expanded with the development of all of the following except
A. subways.
B. skyscrapers.
C. airplanes.
D. suspension bridges.
____ 19. Daniel Burnham's plan for the city of Chicago emphasized
A. blocks of skyscrapers.
B. a lakefront park system.
C. a network of bicycle paths.
D. hidden electric lines.
____ 20. Skyscrapers were made possible by the invention of
A. safer fire escapes.
B. larger bricks and stronger cement.
C. the elevator and a steel framework.
D. the airplane and the bicycle.
____ 21. In the Southwest, many Mexicans earned a living as
A. railroad workers and agricultural laborers.
B. small business owners.
C. dockworkers and canal diggers.
D. household servants and mail carriers.
____ 22. All of the following became popular around the turn of the 20th century except
A. European literature.
B. professional baseball.
C. vaudeville theater.
D. amusement parks.
____ 23. Jim Crow laws were laws that
A. separated the races.
B. denied citizenship to Asian immigrants.
C. taxed voters.
D. promoted discrimination against women.
____ 24. All of the following were trends in education around 1900 except
A. more students attending both elementary and high school.
B. immigrants becoming "Americanized" by attending public schools.
C. growth of kindergartens.
D. most African Americans attending high school.
____ 25. In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that
A. lynching was a federal crime.
B. school segregation was unconstitutional.
C. voting rights could not be tied to any form of tax.
D. racial segregation in public facilities was legal.
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Using the exhibit, choose the letter of the best answer.
____ 26. What does a single square on the map represent?
A. the western limit of the population of the nation
B. the point around which people in the nation are equally distributed
C. the city with the largest population in the nation
D. the point that lost the most population in the year indicated
____ 27. Where was the center of population in 1900?
A. in Ohio, about 60 miles east of Cincinnati
B. in Indiana, about 90 miles west of Cincinnati
C. in Indiana, about 400 miles west of Cincinnati
D. in Missouri, about 50 miles southwest of St. Louis
____ 28. During which period did the center of population shift the least?
A. 1790-1840
B. 1840-1880
C. 1880-1910
D. 1910-1960
____ 29. Which city shown on the map was closest to the center of population in 1880?
A. Cincinnati
B. Charleston
C. Indianapolis
D. Louisville
____ 30. Which city would have been least justified in calling itself a center of population?
A. Annapolis
B. Washington, D.C.
C. E. St. Louis
D. Richmond
Choose the letter of the best answer.
____ 31. Which development in the late 1900s allowed cities to expand outward?
A. skyscrapers
B. new railroad lines
C. horse-drawn streetcars
D. four-lane highways
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____ 32. Which development lowered the price of newspapers to a penny a copy?
A. a printing press that simultaneously printed both sides of the paper
B. a lower price for American timber used by paper mills
C. a drop in the wages of newspaper delivery boys
D. a new lightweight engine developed for use in aircraft
____ 33. Which of the following was not true of public education around 1900?
A. High school curriculums were expanding to include science and civics.
B. Kindergartens were being added to elementary school programs.
C. The number of blacks attending public school was rapidly catching up with whites.
D. State laws required students to attend school from ages 8 to 14.
____ 34. Who expressed the belief that racism would end as blacks acquired practical work skills and
proved their economic value to society?
A. W. E. B. Du Bois
B. Ida B. Wells
C. Booker T. Washington
D. William Torrey Harris
____ 35. Which of the following did not keep African Americans in the South from voting?
A. poll taxes
B. grandfather clauses
C. the separate-but-equal doctrine
D. literacy tests
____ 36. The popularity of bicycling and amusement parks reflected which trend of the 1900s?
A. wider public access to the fine arts
B. an interest in leisure activities
C. a rising literacy rate
D. new ways of shopping and advertising
____ 37. Which effect can be traced directly to the Supreme Court's ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson?
A. Southern blacks lost their voting rights for 60 years.
B. Lynching of African Americans continued into the 1920s.
C. Racial segregation was permitted for nearly 60 years.
D. Race riots broke out in New York and other large cities.
____ 38. How did George Eastman contribute to an explosion in the popularity of photography?
A. by taking photographs of the Wright brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk
B. by inventing a camera that was larger and heavier than most
C. by inventing a camera that could develop pictures on the spot
D. by inventing a camera that used roll film instead of heavy glass plates
____ 39. How did the introduction of the bicycle affect women's lives?
A. It led to numerous injuries among women riders.
B. It made many women feel more independent.
C. It gave women more time to spend with their children.
D. It started a fitness craze among women.
____ 40. Which type of fiction was very popular around the turn of the 20th century?
A. realistic portrayals of American life
B. Western adventure tales
C. novels about the grand life of the upper class
D. stories about sports heroes
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Select the letter of the term, name, or phrase that best matches each description. Note: Some letters may not
be used at all. Some may be used more than once.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Brooklyn Bridge
Richmond
Louis Sullivan
Daniel Burnham
Central Park
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
skyscraper
Boston
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Frederick Law Olmsted
George Eastman
____ 41. He invented the Kodak camera.
____ 42. These pioneer aviators helped make airmail possible.
____ 43. This city's Back Bay area was originally a 450-acre swamp.
____ 44. Elevators and steel supports helped make this land-saver possible.
____ 45. This landscape architect spearheaded the movement for planned urban parks.
____ 46. Completed in 1883, this "eighth wonder of the world" that connected Brooklyn to Manhattan took 14
years to build.
____ 47. This was intended to soothe the inhabitants of New York City and let them enjoy a "natural setting."
____ 48. This architectural pioneer designed the "proud and soaring, " ten-story Wainwright building in St.
Louis, Missouri.
____ 49. This architect created an overall plan for Chicago that included a lakefront of elegant parks.
____ 50. This was the first American city to electrify its urban transit.
If the statement is true, fill in letter "A". If it is false, fill in letter "B".
__________ 51.
By 1910, most immigrants continued to be excluded from public secondary education.
__________ 52.
Theodore Dreiser was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard
University. He proposed that educated African Americans attempt to achieve immediate
inclusion into mainstream American life.
__________ 53.
W.E.B. Du Bois founded Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in an effort to enable
African Americans to teach and to do agricultural, domestic, or mechanical work. "No race,
" he said, "can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a
poem."
__________ 54.
U.S. commissioner of education William Torrey Harris helped establish kindergartens in
public school systems.
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Select the letter of the term, name, or phrase that best matches each description. Note: Some letters may not
be used at all. Some may be used more than once.
A. Plessy v. Ferguson
B. Literacy Test
C. Debt Peonage
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
poll tax
Jim Crow Laws
segregation
Grandfather Clause
Ida B. Wells
____ 55. This term is used to refer to any system of separating people on the basis of race.
____ 56. This African-American journalist began crusading for racial justice after the lynching of three
friends.
____ 57. These laws were passed in the South to prevent white and black people from intermixing and to
prevent blacks from achieving equality.
____ 58. This had to be paid to gain access to the voting booth in many Southern states. It effectively kept
both poor blacks and poor whites from voting.
____ 59. This was added to the constitutions of several Southern states to enable white people to vote who
may have been kept from doing so by other restrictions.
____ 60. This was given in the South to African Americans by voter registration officials. Some versions
were in foreign languages; others were more difficult than the versions given to white voters.
____ 61. This is a system of involuntary labor. After slavery was abolished, Mexicans and African
Americans living in the West and Southwest were often forced into this system.
____ 62. This Supreme Court decision ruled that separation of the races in public accommodations was
legal and did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. It established the principle of "separate but
equal" that would rule Southern racial relations for almost 60 years.
If the statement is true, fill in letter "A". If it is false, fill in letter "B".
__________ 63.
Thomas Eakins was an American painter who embraced realism, the belief that art and
literature should present life in a realistic manner.
__________ 64.
American novelist Stephen Crane wrote humorous works and adventure stories, such as
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that have since become accepted as classics of
American literature.
__________ 65.
Montgomery Ward and Sears and Roebuck created "five-and-dime stores" that brought
department store merchandise to farmers and residents of small towns.
__________ 66.
The United States Post Office boosted mail-order businesses in 1896 by introducing a
rural free delivery system that brought packages directly to every home.
__________ 67.
Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst competed to capture mass audiences for
their motion pictures.
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