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Chapter 8
20/21st - Davis - SVHS - Life at the Turn of the 20th Century
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who designed the Flatiron Building? | Daniel Burnham |
| Transformed urban transportation? | Electricity |
| Streetcars that were moved far above street level? | El trains |
| Rail lines that were built underground? | Subways |
| Who developed the first camera for recreation use, the Kodak camera? | George Eastman |
| Segregation laws passed in the south to separate white and black people in public and private facilities? | Jim Crow laws |
| The doctrine allowing states to maintain segregated facilities for blacks and whites as long as they provided equal services? | “Separate but Equal” |
| An informal set of rules and customs that blacks had to follow or they would punished and sometimes even put to death by whites? | Racial Etiquette |
| Built in 1885, had smaller wheels and air filled tires? | Safety Bike |
| ________________ included huge, sensational, exaggerated headlines? | Yellow Journalism |
| In response to Urbanization, technological advances began to meet | communication, transportation, and space demands |
| What was America’s greatest contribution to architecture and solved the issue of how to best use limited and expensive space? | the Skyscraper |
| By the turn of the century, intricate networks of electric _________________ran from outlying neighborhoods to downtown offices & stores. | Street Cars or Trolley Cars |
| What helped speed the transfer of information? | advances in printing, aviation, and photography |
| What made newspapers and magazines more affordable? | faster production and lower costs |
| On December 17, 1903 Orville & Wilbur Wright flew their plane for | 12 seconds covering 120 feet |
| High schools expanded their curriculum to include what subjects? | science, civics and social studies |
| Who was mostly excluded from secondary education? | African Americans |
| Most immigrants sent their children to free public schools where they quickly became | Americanized |
| Why did college enrollments more than quadruple between 1880 and 1920? | Industrial Development changed the nation’s needs |
| By the turn of the 20th century, Southern States had adopted a broad system of | legal discrimination |
| In which U.S. Supreme Court Case did the final decision establish the doctrine “separate but equal” allowing states to maintain segregated facilities for blacks and whites as long as they provided equal services | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| What brand of racisim did African Americans encounter in the North? | low paying jobs, segregated neighborhoods, last to hired, and first to be fired |
| Discrimination in the west was most often directed against who? | Mexicans & Asians |
| What did cycling change for women? | the wore more comfortable clothing & were freed from their chaperone |
| What were the two popular spectator sports of the time period? | Baseball & Boxing |
| Who were two leading publishers whose competition led to more and more sensational newspaper reporting? | Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst |
| What was America's first Department Store whose motto was "Give the Lady what she wants"? | Marshall Field in Chicago |
| In the 1870s, F.W. Woolworth found that if he offered an item at a low price | the consumer would purchase it on the spur of the moment |
| Who were the two pioneers of the catalog sales? | Montgomery Ward & Sears |
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