VOCABULARY
Strong material made from glass threads
Fiberglass
This president opened the fair in 1893
Grover Cleveland
The World's Fair was a 'White City' for these 2 reasons
1. All buildings were white
2. People inside fairgrounds were all white (African Americans not welcome/allowed to work there)
Even thought the U.S was made up of many people from different places they shared a belief in these 3 'ideals'
Life
Liberty
Pursuit of happiness
This happened to the White City after the fair closed
Occupied by homeless people, lit fires to keep warm - white walls became soot covered
One of their fires burned many buildings to the ground
A machine that solves mathematical problems
Calculator
The fairground called by this name. Why?
White City - all the electric light bulbs that lit it up
Frederick Douglass called the Fairgrounds by this name
"White Tomb"
Two U.S documents supported the ideals that all Americans shared
Declaration of Independence
U.S. Constitution
The 'official' name of the Chicago World Fair
World's Columbian Exposition
A system of roads that connect with one another
Network
3 types of modern transport that moved people through the city
Electric boats
Moving sidewalk
Elevated trains (EL)
2 groups of people that the fair had not originally planned to represent
Women, Native Americans
African Americans shared these 2 beliefs
All men are created equal
Equal protection of the laws
The 2 different sides of Chicago highlighted these 3 things
Progress
Dreams
Problems of the nation
Science used in practical ways
Technology
3 of the 'new' modern inventions used for the first time at the fair
Zip, long-distance phone calls, electric kitchens, fibreglass, calculator
3 of the countries that were represented only in the amusement area (Midway)
Germany, Ireland, Egypt, Africa
Immigrants to the U.S kept their culture alive through these 2 methods
Foreign language newspapers
Clubs
The fair showed how Science and technology could change cities - give 2 examples of this
Steel beams = skyscrapers
Engineers = reversed flow of river to help solve sewage problem
A picture painted on a wall
Mural
3 of the problems seen in the 'other' city of Chicago
1. Pollution form smokestacks
2. Raw sewage from factories and stockyards
3. Poor neighbourhoods with no parks / trees
4. Dirty crowded tenements
5. Streets crammed with garbage
4 out of 10 people in Chicago had been born in other lands - name 3 of them
Poland, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Sweden
There were still many problems that faced the U.S - name 3 of them
Jim Crow Laws
Poverty
Dangerous conditions in factories
Science and technology could not solve all the cities problems - name 3 of the problems that continued to exist
Smokestacks poor soot and ash on the city
Factories and stockyards pumped out raw sewage
Poor neighbourhoods - no parks or trees
People crowded in dirty tenements
Streets crammed with garbage