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Chapter 8
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Section 1
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Taller buildings because of two factors: Invention of elevators Development of internal steel skeletons to bear the weight of buildings
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Designed the 10- story Wainwright Building in St. Louis Skyscraper – “proud and soaring thing” Steel framework supported both floors and walls.
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Landscape architect Spearheaded movement for planned urban parks. Hoped would soothe the city’s inhabitants and let them enjoy a “natural” setting.
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1857 - drew up plans for what is now Central Park, in New York. 1870s – designed landscaping for Washington DC, St. Louis, Boston park system. Video
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Brothers Bicycle manufactures in Dayton, Ohio Experimented with new engines Four-cylinder internal combustion engine
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First successful flight on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina 120 feet and lasted 12 seconds. 1905 – flights of 24 miles 1920 – first transcontinental airmail service Video http://www.history.com/videos/wright-brothers#wright-brothers-are-first-in-flight
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Developed flexible film, send to studio for processing. Aimed his product at the masses, not just professional photographers
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1888 – Kodak camera $25 with 100-picture roll Send the camera to factory to develop the pictures for $10. Millions of amateur photographers Field of photojournalism Video
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Section 2
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African American educator Believed racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their value to society. Graduated from Virginia’s Hampton Institute
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1881 – head of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama Equip African Americans with teaching diplomas and useful skills in agricultural, domestic, or mechanical work. Video http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/?assetGuid=203D5E85-656A-4DC8-82BD- C9114C68D430&fromMyDe=0&isPrinterFriendly=0&provider=&isLessonFromHealth=0&productcode=US&isAssigned=false&includeH eader=YES&homeworkGuid=
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1895 - 1 st African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard 1905 - Founded Niagara Movement Insisted that blacks should seek a liberal arts education so that the African American community would have well-educated leader Video http://www.history.com/videos/web-dubois-and-the- niagara-movement#web-dubois-and-the-niagara- movement
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Section 4
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Middle-Class Americans experience new leisure activities. Used to escape mundane industrial work.
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“I think [bicycling] has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world… It gives women a feeling of freedom and self reliance” – Susan B. Anthony
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Newspapers Fine Arts Reading
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Use headlines to catch attention of readers Joseph Pulitzer – Hungarian immigrant, bought New York World Sunday edition comics, sports coverage, women’s news William Randolph Hearst – New York Morning Journal – exaggerated tales of personal scandal, cruelty, hypnotism, etc.
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One art gallery in every city Thomas Eakins – portrayed life as it was, photography Ashcan School – led by Robert Henry – painted urban life and working people, realism Libraries
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Most preferred to read light fiction Dime Novels – glorify adventure tales of the West Some prefer a more realistic picture of American life Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
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Urban Shopping Department Stores The Chain Store Advertising Catalogs and Rural Free Delivery (RFD)
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City Shopping Centers
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Marshall Field – “Give the lady what she wants.” Pioneered the “Bargain Basement”
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F.W. Woolworth – offered cheap items and found consumers would buy it on the “spur of the moment” 596 Stores by 1911
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Advertising brought modern consumerism Newspapers and Magazines
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Ward Catalog in 1872 Sears By 1910 about 10 million Americans shopped by mail U.S. Post Office boosted mail-order businesses – 1896 the Post Office introduced Rural Free Delivery – bringing packages to every home.
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Section 4 http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/view/assetGuid/609 91DF8-E209-4944-9B70-7099D49BA522
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