Urban Life
A skyscraper
This chocolate bar was invented in 1900
Hershey's Chocolate Bar
Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
This school class for 5 year olds becomes popular to attend during this time
Kindergarten
Give me two examples of segregated laws
interracial marriages, train cars, restaurants, schools...
Give me two examples of electric transit that was used at the turn of the century
trolleys and subways
Give me three examples of spectator sports enjoyed during the turn of the century
Boxing, football, baseball, tennis
African American educator, founded the Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute
Brooker T. Washington
Schools for white and blacks were separated also known as
Segregated/ segregation
Clause in many Southern state's constitutions that stated that even if a man failed a literacy test or could not afford the poll tax, he could still vote if his father or grandfather had voted before 1867
Grandfather Clause
This engineering feat was built from 1869-1883 and was a hybrid model, using expensive steel cables
Brooklyn Bridge
This was the first major amusement park in NYC
Coney Island
These brothers succeeded in the first free controlled flight that was power driven
The Wright Brothers
What were the first subjects taught at public schools in the late 1800's
reading, writing, arithmetic
Segregation laws that separated white and black people in publics and private facilities.
Jim Crow Laws
This park was land set aside for the busy urban life of NYC people
Central Park
What was the title of the first movie people in the US paid to watch
The Great Train Robbery
This American born newspaper editor and politician, published the largest chain of newspapers in the US
William Randolph Hearst
Founded by W.E.B Du Bois, wanted to help African Americans to seek degrees in the liberal arts and education
Niagara Movement
A system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off debt to the employer
Debt peonage
90%
How did women change their fashion to accommodate riding a bicycle
They created bloomers- pants that were baggy but allowed for more freedom and safety in riding.
This person was a journalist, activist, and researcher who dedicated their life to battle sexism, abuse, and racism
Ida B. Wells
Name the institute that was founded by Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute
Plessy v. Ferguson