Science and Urban Life
These bicycle manufacturers from Dayton, Ohio, designed a biplane and made the first successful flight of a powered aircraft
Orville and Wilbur Wright
This African American Educator believed racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to soceity.
Booker T. Washington
separating people in public and private places due to race or nationality
segregation
This author wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
This 1896 Supreme Court case ruled that separation of races in public accomodations legal and established the "separate but equal" doctrine
Plessy v. Ferguson
In 1888, this person introduced the Kodak camera prompting millions of Americans to become amateur photographers
George Eastman
He was the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard.
W.E.B. Du Bois
Legislation in the South that legalized racial segregation and oppression was called this
Jim Crow Laws
This Hungarian immigrant, bought the New York World in 1883 and pioneered popular newspaper innovations such as the large Sunday edition, comics, sports section and women's news.
Joseph Pulitzer
This person became a editor of a Memphis newspaper and reported on racial justice after her 3 friends were lynched
Ida B. Wells
This architect designed the early skyscraper, The Wainwright Building in St. Louis
Louis Sullivan
This school in Alabama, aimed to equp African Americans with teaching diplomas and skills in agricultural, domestic and mechanical work.
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
In order to suppress the African American vote, this fee was charged to be able to vote
poll tax
This wealthy publisher, bought the New York Morning Journal and utilized sensational headlines and exaggerated news to outsell his competitors
William Randolph Hearst
Why did some immigrants oppose sending their children to public schools?
Some did not want their children Americanized, others had religious objections
This architect designed the iconic Flatiron Building in New York
Daniel Burnham
This insisted that African AMericans should seek a liberal arts education to provide the community with well-educated leaders
Niagra Movement
Poor white voters were often able to circumvent paying fees or passing literacy tests to vote in Southern states due to this
grandfather clause
Introduced by the the Post Office in 1896, this system brought packages directly to every home
rural free delivery (RFD)
In what ways was racial discrimination reinforced by the federal government’s actions and policies?
The Supreme Court legalized segregation in Plessy vs Ferguson, Debt Peonage was allowed
This landscape architect spearheaded the movement for planned urban parks
Fredrick Law Olmstead
These 2 TPA staff attended what is now called the Tuskegee University
Shia Smith and Ron Lucas
This system bound laborers into slavery in order to work off money owed to an employer
debt peonage
This institute taught artists to paint urban life and working people with gritty realism
Ashcan school
What leisure activities flourished at the turn of the 20th century?
Bicycling, specatator sports, amusement parks, theatre, the circus and reading fiction