Unit 4 pt. 2

Question 1

these brothers were bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio who built and flew the first plane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903

Answer 1

Orville and Wilbur Wright

Question 2

invented the Kodak camera for to take pics easier and less costly

Answer 2

George Eastman

Question 3

prominent African American, born into slavery, who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society, was head of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881

Answer 3

Booker T. Washington

Question 4

an instituted headed by Washington, now called Tuskegee University in Alabama

Answer 4

Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute

Question 5

first African American to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged African Americans to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910

Answer 5

W.E.B. DuBois

Question 6

founded by DuBois in 1905 , to promote the education of African Americans in the liberal arts

Answer 6

Niagara Movement

Question 7

African American journalist who wrote a newspaper urging African-Americans to protest lynching

Answer 7

Ida B. Wells

Question 8

an annual tax that formerly had to be paid in some Southern states by anyone wishing to vote

Answer 8

Poll Tax

Question 9

a provision that exempts certain people from a law on the basis of previously existing circumstances-especially a clause formerly in some Southern states’ constitutions that exempted whites from the strict voting requirements used to keep African Americans from the polls

Answer 9

Grandfather Clause

Question 10

the separation of people on the basis of race

Answer 10

Segregation

Question 11

laws enacted by Southern state and local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilities

Answer 11

Jim Crow Laws

Question 12

an 1896 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that separation of the races in public accommodations was legal, this establishing the “separate but equal” doctrine

Answer 12

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 13

a system in which workers are bound in servitude until their debts are paid

Answer 13

Debt Patronage

Question 14

a Hungarian immigrant who had bought the New York World in 1883, pioneered popular innovations, such as a large Sunday edition, comics, sports coverage, and women’s news

Answer 14

Joseph Pulitzer

Question 15

newspaper publisher, owner of New York Morning Journal and the San Francisco Examiner, who filled the Journal with exaggerated tales of personal scandals, cruelty, hypnotism, and imaginary conquests of Mars

Answer 15

William Randolph Hearst

Question 16

a group of early 20th-century American artists who often painted realistic pictures of city life - such as tenements and homeless people - this earning them their name

Answer 16

Ashcan School

Question 17

United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

Answer 17

Mark Twain

Question 18

the free government delivery of mail and packages to home sin rural areas, begun in 1896

Answer 18

Rural Free Delivery (RFD)

Question 19

the banning of the manufacture, sale, and possession of alcoholic beverages

Answer 19

Prohibition

Question 20

one of the magazine journalists who exposed the corrupt side of business and public life in the early 1900s

Answer 20

Muckraker

Question 21

an early 20th century reform movement seeking to return control of the government to the people, to restore economic opportunities, and correct injustices in American life

Answer 21

Progressive movement

Question 22

reformer who worked to prohibit child labor and to improve conditions for female workers

Answer 22

Florence Kelley

Question 23

the application of scientific principles to increase efficiency in the workplace

Answer 23

Scientific management

Question 24

Republican progressive known as “Fighting Bob” from Wisconsin who led the way in regulating big business

Answer 24

Robert M. LaFollette

Question 25

a procedure by which a legislative measure can be originated by the people rather than by lawmakers

Answer 25

Initiative

Question 26

a procedure by which a proposed legislative measure can be submitted to a vote of the people

Answer 26

Referendum