Life at the Turn of the 20th Century

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Life at the Turn of the 20th Century
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Technology

• Cities
• Skyscrapers
• Louis Sullivan
• Wainwright Building
• Daniel Burham
• Flatiron Building

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Electric Transit

• Streetcars
• Richmond, Virginia
• New Railroad lines
• El Trains
• Subways

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Engineering and Urban Planning

• Steel cable suspension bridges
• City planners
• Frederick Law Olmstead
• New York City, Washington
• D.C., St. Louis and Boston
• Daniel Burnham
• White City in Chicago
• Lake Michigan

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Other New Technologies

• Printing
• Airplanes
• Orville and Wilbur Wright
• Kitty Hawk

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Photography

• George Eastman
• Flexible film
• Kodak Camera

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Dawn of Mass Culture

• Leisure
• Amusement Parks
• Playgrounds
• Bicycles
• Tennis
• Hershey and Coca-cola
• Spectator Sports
• Boxing and baseball
• Cincinnati Red Stocking- American League
• African American Leagues

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Spread of Mass Culture

• Galleries, libraries and Museums
• Newspapers
• Joseph Pulitzer
• William Randolph Hearst
• Yellow Journalism

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Fine Arts

• Thomas Eakins and anatomy
• Ashcan School
• Libraries
• Literature
• Dime Novels
• Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Stephen Crane, Jack
  London and Willa Cather

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Segregation and Discrimination

• Ida B. Wells
• Discrimination
• Literacy Tests
• Poll Tax
• Grandfather Clause
• Segregation
• Jim Crow Laws
• Plessy v. Ferguson

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White and Black Relations

• Etiquette Rules
• Subservient
• Booker T. Washington
• W.E.B. DuBois
• Lynching
• North
• Race riots

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Other Discrimination

• The West
• Mexicans
• Debt peonage
• Chinese
• Native Americans