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Ch.8 TN
Final Review Matching
Question | Answer |
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Louis Sullivan | Designed ten story wainwright building in St. Louis, he called the new breed of skyscrapers a "proud and soaring thing" |
Orville and Wilbur Wright | Bicycle manufactures from Dayton, Ohio experimented with new engines powerful enough to keep and air craft aloft. |
Booker T. Washington | The prominent African American educator who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society |
W.E.B. Du Bois | The first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard in 1895, strongly disagreed with Washington gradual approach |
Niagara Movement | Which insisted that blacks should seek a liberal arts education so that the African American community would have well-educated leaders |
Ida B. Wells | Moved to Memphis in the early 1880's to work as a teacher |
Jim Crows Laws | Blacks lost voting rights, southern states passed racial segrgation laws to separate white from black people in public and private facilities |
Plessey V. Ferguson | The supreme court ruled that the separation of races in public accommodations was legal and did not violate the 14 amendments |
debt Peonage | A system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a debt to the employers |
Rural Free Delivery | In 1896 the post office introduced a system that brought packages directly to every home. |