Inventions and Developments
The first powered airplane was developed by these two people.
Who were Orville and Wilbur Wright?
This ten-story building in St. Louis was the first skyscraper.
What is the Wainwright Building?
Southern states sometimes used this to allow them to keep African Americans from voting while allowing whites to do so.
What is a grandfather clause?
As a novelist and humorist, this person wrote books that have become American classics.
Who was Mark Twain?
At the turn of the 20th century, this was the factor that prevented the greatest number of children from attending public high schools.
What was racism?
The development of a printing press that simultaneously printed both sides of the paper lowered the price of this to a penny a copy.
What are newspapers?
This landscape architect led the movement for planned urban parks.
Who was Frederick Law Olmsted?
Laws that separated the races were known as this.
What were Jim Crow laws?
Competing with Joseph Pulitzer, this person published sensational stories in his newspapers.
Who was William Randolph Hearst?
In the Southwest, many people from this ethnic group earned a living as railroad workers and agricultural laborers.
What are Mexicans?
This person was the inventor of the popular roll-film camera.
Who was George Eastman?
This person designed the first skyscraper.
Who was Louis Sullivan?
According to this individual, educated blacks should immediately join the mainstream of society.
Who was W. E. B. Du Bois?
This type of fiction was very popular around the turn of the 20th century.
What are Western adventure tales?
This development in the late 1900s allowed cities to expand outward.
What are new railroad lines?
The introduction of this made many women feel more independent.
What is the bicycle?
This person's plan for the city of Chicago emphasized lakefront park system.
Who was Daniel Burnham?
The Tuskegee Institute was founded by this person to help African Americans develop useful job skills.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
Business leaders like this person pointed out that keeping workers loyal to capitalism required society to “provide ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.”
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
In this case the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public facilities was legal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The modern version of this sport originated in North Wales in 1873, and a year later, the United States saw its first match.
What is tennis?
In Chicago, this person opened the first department store in the nation.
Who was Marshall Field?
By writing and lecturing, this person tried to end the lynching of African Americans.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
In 1905, Du Bois founded this movement, which insisted that blacks should seek a liberal arts education so that the African-American community would have well-educated leaders.
What is the Niagara Movement?
By 1910, about 10 million Americans shopped by mail. The United States Post Office boosted mail-order businesses. In 1896 the Post Office introduced this system that brought packages directly to every home.
What is a rural free delivery (RFD)?