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U.S. History Chapter 8 Louis Sullivan Designed the Wainwright Building in St. Louis
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U.S. History Chapter 8 Daniel Burnham Designed the Flatiron Building in New York City
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U.S. History Chapter 8 Fredrick Law Olmsted Spearhead the movement for planned urban parks
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U.S. History Chapter 8 Chicago City Planning The vision and planning for the city of Chicago was used as a model for other urban areas going into the 20 th century
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U.S. History Chapter 8 Orville & Wilbur Wright Bicycle manufacturers Dayton, OH Dec. 17, 1903 Kitty Hawk, NC First flight
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U.S. History Chapter 8 George Eastman New film process for cameras Introduced his Kodak to the masses in 1888
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U.S. History Chapter 8 Booker T. Washington Started Tuskegee Institute Gave a speech known as the Atlanta Compromise “In all things social we can be as separate as the fingers, but one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.”
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U.S. History Chapter 8 W.E.B. DuBois First African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard 1895
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U.S. History Chapter 8 Niagara Movement Founded by W.E.B. DuBois Insisted that blacks should pursue a liberal arts education to produce well educated leaders
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U.S. History Chapter 8 Ida B. Wells Local newspaper reporter that became know for her writing and lecturing for civil rights
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U.S. History Chapter 8 Poll Tax An annual tax that had to be paid before being allowed to vote
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U.S. History Chapter 8 Grandfather Clause If a man failed the literacy test to vote, he was allowed to vote if his father or grandfather were eligible to vote
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U.S. History Chapter 8 Segregation Laws to separate blacks and whites in public and private facilities
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U.S. History Chapter 8 Jim Crow Laws Common name for laws that segregated
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U.S. History Chapter 8 Plessey v. Ferguson 1896 - The Supreme Court decided that separate facilities for whites and blacks were ok as long as those facilities were equal THUS, SEPERATE BUT EQUAL.
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U.S. History Chapter 8 Debt Peonage A system that forced African and Mexican Americans into slavery in order to work off a debt to the employer. 1911 declared Un-Constitutional
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U.S. History Chapter 8 Joseph Pullitzer Publisher and owner of the New York World newspaper
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U.S. History Chapter 8 William Randolph Hearst Publisher and owner of the New York Morning Journal newspaper
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U.S. History Chapter 8 Ashcan School School of American Art that painted urban life and working people with gritty realism and no frills
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U.S. History Chapter 8 Mark Twain Literary name for Samuel Clemens Author of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and other popular novels
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U.S. History Chapter 8 Rural Free Delivery (RFD) 1896 – The post office brought packages directly to every home, including those in rural areas
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U.S. History Chapter 8 Vaudeville Live theatrical performances that traveled the “circuit” bringing entertainment to the American Public
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