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Title: Life at the Turn of the 20th Century


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Life at the Turn of the 20th Century
2
Technology
  • Cities
  • Skyscrapers
  • Louis Sullivan
  • Wainwright Building
  • Daniel Burham
  • Flatiron Building

3
Electric Transit
  • Streetcars
  • Richmond, Virginia
  • New Railroad lines
  • El Trains
  • Subways

4
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

5
Other New Technologies
  • Printing
  • Airplanes
  • Orville and Wilbur Wright
  • Kitty Hawk

6
Photography
  • George Eastman
  • Flexible film
  • Kodak Camera

7
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

8
Spread of Mass Culture
  • Galleries, libraries and Museums
  • Newspapers
  • Joseph Pulitzer
  • William Randolph Hearst
  • Yellow Journalism

9
Fine Arts
  • Thomas Eakins and anatomy
  • Ashcan School
  • Libraries
  • Literature
  • Dime Novels
  • Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Stephen Crane, Jack
    London and Willa Cather

10
Segregation and Discrimination
  • Ida B. Wells
  • Discrimination
  • Literacy Tests
  • Poll Tax
  • Grandfather Clause
  • Segregation
  • Jim Crow Laws
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

11
White and Black Relations
  • Etiquette Rules
  • Subservient
  • Booker T. Washington
  • W.E.B. DuBois
  • Lynching
  • North
  • Race riots

12
Other Discrimination
  • The West
  • Mexicans
  • Debt peonage
  • Chinese
  • Native Americans
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