Vocabulary
annual tax that had to be paid before qualifying to vote.
poll tax
Post office system that brought packages directly to every home.
Rural Free Delivery
Designed the flatiron building
Daniel Burnham
bicycle manufacturers from Dayton, Ohio experimented with some powerful engines.
Wright Brothers
stated that even if a man failed the literacy test or could not afford the poll tax, he was still entitled to vote if he, his father, or grandfather had been eligible to vote before 1867.
Grandfather Clause
Supreme Court Case (1896) in which the court ruled that the separation of races in public accommodations was legal and did not violate the 14th amendment.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Expanded the newspaper with things such as the large Sunday edition, comics, sports coverage, and women's news.
Joseph Pulitzer
African American educator who believed in the slow progression of ending racism.
Booker T. Washington
Group of artists who often painted realistic pictures of life.
Ashcan School
separation of people based on race.
Founded the Niagara Movement
W.E.B. Du Bois
Developed a series of convenient alternatives to photography, which included film that could be developed later rather than immediately.
George Eastman
segregation laws in the south.
Jim Crow Laws
a system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a debt to the employer.
debt peonage
landscape architect who spearheaded the movement for planned urban parks
Frederick Law Olmstead
designed the first skyscrapper
Louis Sullivan
expanded his newspaper with things such as exaggerated tales of personal scandals, cruelty, hypnotism, and imaginary conquests.
William Randolph Hearst