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1
Happy Monday??
  • Grab supplies complete your warm up
  • Warm Up Midterm Review G3 P8
  • We are going to finish G7 today
  • G7 test tomorrow

2
Building Trends
  • 40 of Americans lived in cities
  • What do we call the rapid building of cities?
  • Urbanization
  • Steal construction taller buildings elevators
  • Skyscrapers Symbolize a rich wealthy society
  • Department Stores Chain stores that sold many
    of the same goods used mail order catalogs
  • Ex Sears Woolworths

3
Between. 1860-1890 Chicago grew from 17 sq. mi.
to 178 sq. mi.
Boston grew from 5 sq. mi. to 39 sq. mi.
4
Transportation
  • Electricity changed how American got around in
    the cities
  • Who invented the lightbulb?
  • Thomas Edison
  • Who created the electrical distribution system?
  • George Westinghouse
  • Street cars commuter trains are being used
  • Cities expand outto the suburbs

5
Henry Fords Model T
  • Model T
  • Used the assembly line to create the 1st mass
    produced automobile the Model T
  • Only came in Black
  • Affordable easier transportation nation of
    new drivers
  • The Ford plant was the first factory to be
    integrated!!

6
Printing
  • Low printing costs newspapers became affordable
  • More people reading
  • Changes in education help this too more people
    can read
  • Yellow Journalism Type of press using
    sensationalism exaggeration to get peoples
    attention increased paper circulation
  • William R. Hearst John Pulitzer
  • Muckrakers used yellow journalism

7
Airplane
  • 1903 - Kitty Hawk, NC The Wright brothers have
    the 1st successful airplane flight
  • 1st flight 120 feet 12 seconds
  • No one really paid attention
  • Within 2 years, the govt. noticed its usefulness
    contracted its services for airmail.
  • 1st Flight

8
Leisure Time
  • The camera was invented by George Eastman
  • Eastman Kodak
  • New inventions made life easier people have
    more free timewhat are we doing??
  • Silent movies, world fairs, boxing, circus,
    variety shows, baseball games, riding bikes,
    going to amusement parks
  • 1904 World Fair - St. Louis
  • The Cyclone
  • Hersheys, Pepsi, Coca-Cola are big hits ?
  • People are spending money

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  • Turn of the Century Advertising

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Music
  • New styles of music are being heard
  • John Phillips Sousa Popularized marching band
    music
  • 76 Trombones
  • Scott Joplin Made ragtime piano popular
  • The Entertainer

13
Shopping
  • We are becoming consumers
  • Buying manufactured products (like we do today)
  • Department stores offer a large variety of
    products
  • Mail order catalogs make shopping easy
    convenient
  • Products are advertised
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