Science and Urban Life
Issues faced by cities in the late 1800s/early 1900s
Overcrowding, lack of sanitation, health issues
Schools were a way to "Americanize" this group of people
Immigrants
What is Rural Free Delivery (RFD)?
post office delivers direct to every home
Ways that African Americans were prevented from voting
Poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clause
Led the movement for planned urban parks
Frederick Law Olmstead
Inventors of the first airplane
Orville and Wilbur Wright
This group of people was mostly excluded from public education
African Americans
Spectator sports that increased in popularity at the turn of the 20th century
Baseball and boxing
Segregation laws that separated blacks and whites in public and private facilities
Jim Crow Laws
Designed the first skyscraper, the Wainwright Building
Louis Sullivan
At the turn of the 20th century, cities saw the development of ________________________ transit
Electric
Colleges began to make changes in their ______________________________________ in order to attract more students
curriculum and admission policies
How did the introduction of bicycles change women's lives?
It made women feel more independent, allowed them to escape the scrutiny of chaperones, gave women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance
What was the purpose of the Grandfather Clause?
To prevent African Americans from voting, but allow whites to vote even if they failed the literacy test or couldn't pay the poll tax
He invented the popular roll-film camera, leading to an explosion in the field of photography
George Eastman
A revolution in _______________________ allowed people to purchase cheaper reading materials
Printing
Name a trend in education during the late 1800s/early 1900s
Children were required to go to school, states established laws dictating how long children should be in school for, growth of high schools, popularity of kindergartens, segregation in schools
The popularity of bicycling and amusement parks reflected which trend of the 1900s?
An interest in leisure activities
Informal rules and customs that regulated relationships between blacks and whites
Racial etiquette
He believed that racism would end if blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society
Booker T Washington
Architects were able to design taller buildings because of these two factors
The invention of elevators and the development of internal steel skeletons
This African American leader insisted that blacks should seek a liberal arts education so that the African American community would have well-educated leaders
W.E.B. Dubois
Why did chain stores become popular?
They offered consistency
This Supreme Court case legalized segregation and established the doctrine of "separate but equal"
Plessy v. Ferguson
Reformer who spoke out against lynching
Ida B Wells