1. Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century

2. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

3. Modern Architecture

4. Urban and City Planning became important Trying to incorporate a little order and serenity into the chaotic city life

5. Fredrick Law Olmsted Central Park

6. New Technologies

7. Web Perfect printing press Prints both sides of the paper Prints from a continuous roll of paper Cuts the paper Folds the paper

8. Airplanes Orville and Wilbur Wright December 17, 1903 Kitty Hawk, North Carolina 120 feet 12 seconds

9. Single person Aircraft

10. Taking off and Landing on a ship

11. Passenger travel

12. Space Travel

13. George Eastman Kodak camera Flexible film used to capture the image

14. Education would go under further reform Elementary schools would increase the student attendance from only attending between harvest times to 12 to 16 weeks of education per year High schools were developed to increase the educational experience Curriculums expanded from writing, reading, and arithmetic; to science, civics, and social studies.

15. Education would continue to be a challenge for blacks Only 3 % of blacks would go to high school Immigrants however were encouraged to attend school

16. Expanding Higher Education Colleges and Universities were developed

17. Booker T. Washington Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute

18. W.E.B. Dubois 1 st Black man to graduate from Harvard

19. Niagara Movement WEB Dubois founder Black Males should seek liberal arts education to be educated leaders of their communities Forefather of NAACP

20. African Americans fight legal discrimination

21. Voting Restrictions Poll Tax Literacy test Grandfather clause – added to ensure that blacks could not vote

22. Segregation – The policy or practice of isolating or separating an ethnic group or race, as in schools, housing, and employment. Segregation was legal and reinforced by what legislation

24. Jim Crow Rules the South

25. Signs of Jim Crow

26. Dawn of Mass Culture

27. Amusement Parks Coney Island 1 st Roller Coaster Ferris wheel Picnic Grounds

28. Bicycling fads

29. Playing tennis became a past time

30. Sold for first time in 1900

31. Atlanta Pharmacist developed as a cure for headaches; made from Peruvian coca leaves

32. America’s Pastime Abner Doubleday

33. Mass Circulation of Newspapers Joseph PulitzerWilliam Randolph Hearst

34. Samuel Langhorne Clemmons Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer

35. Economics began to change

36. Marshal Field’s department store Catered to women shoppers

37. Woolworth’s became the first chain store (Five and dime’s)

38. Sex Sells

39. Coolness Sells

40. Catalogs and Home shopping added convenience to the shopping dilemma

41. Other Catalogs Montgomery Ward Sears and Roebuck Then came rural free delivery (RFD) 1910, 10 million Americans shopped by mail