Chapter 8 Flashcards
What is lynching?
hanging or burning of African Americans
What did not allow Chinese into the country?
Chinese Exclusion Act
What kind of store holds many items?
Department Store
What is a private religion school?
Perocel
What are two reasons that the blacks migrated to the North?
Escape violence and in search of jobs
Types of mass transit?
trollies, L trains, and subway
Started so that African Americans could play baseball?
Negro Leagues
What are 4 things that started in Mass Culture in this time designed to pass time?
boxing, amusement parks, tennis, and bicycling
4 things that the Jim Crow laws segregated?
water fountains, schools, bathrooms, hospitals, and buses
Who developed the first department store?
Marshall Field
Examples of department stores:
Macy’s, Sears, and Bergners
What did Sears bring to small towns and farmers?
Catalogue that brought department store merchandise to them
What introduced rural free delivery?
post offices
American painter that embraced realism?
Thomas Watkins
What was the Supreme Court decision that established separate but equal?
P vs Ferguson Debt Peonage
What was the test that was given to African Americans by voter registration officials, sometimes in other languages easier to whites?
Literacy Test
Additions to constitutions that enabled whites?
Grandfather Clause
What is money paid to vote?
poll tax
What were the laws that passed in the South to keep black and whites separated?
Jim Crow Laws
African American Journalist that crusaded for racial justice after lynching of their friends?
Ida B. Wells
Invented the Kodak Camera?
George Eastman
This urged African Americans to earn a degree.
Niagara Movement
First African American to earn a PHD from Harvard?
Du Bois
Which group was excluded from secondary school around 1910?
African Americans
Intended to soothe inhabitants of New York City.
Central Park
8th wonder of the world and connected Brooklyn to Manhattan?
Brooklyn Bridge
Who was a landscape architect?
Fredrick Law Olmsted
Elevators and steel supports made these possible.
skyscrapers
Pioneer aviators that helped make air mail possible?
Wright Brothers
What happened as a result of the Plessy vs Ferguson
Allowed separation but equal for over 60 years
What are things that kept African Americans from voting?
poll tax, literacy test, and the Grandfather Clause
What did the Plessy vs Ferguson legalize?
Segregation in public facilities
Things that became popular as the spread of mass culture around this time?
boxing, baseball, amusement parks
How did Mexicans earn a living in the southwest?
built railroads and agriculture
Where did Burnham have his plan for the city of Chicago?
Parks along Lake Michigan
Things that allowed 19th century city to expand?
subways, skyscrapers, and suspension bridges
What factor prevented the greatest number of children from attending high school?
racism
Who were journalists/newspaper editors?
Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hirtz
Who wrote humorous works and adventurous stories?
Mark Twain
