Article. "The Measure of America"

Question 1

Where did the World’s Columbian Exposition take place? What was it meant to commemorate?

Answer 1

Chicago, it was meant to commemorate Columbus’s discovery of America.

Question 2

What did Samuel Morton believe about race?

Answer 2

That Negroes and Whites were different species.

Question 3

What did Josiah Nott believe about slavery?

Answer 3

He claimed that the negro achieves his greatest perfection, physical and moral, and also greatest longevity, in a state of slavery.

Question 4

What did Plessy v. Ferguson decision establish?

Answer 4

For both blacks and whites to be “separate but equal.”

Question 5

What famous museum did Franz Boas work for beginning in 1896?

Answer 5

American Museum of Natural History