U.S. History Chapter 8 Louis Sullivan Designed the Wainwright Building in St. Louis

U.S. History Chapter 8 Daniel Burnham Designed the Flatiron Building in New York City

U.S. History Chapter 8 Fredrick Law Olmsted Spearhead the movement for planned urban parks

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

U.S. History Chapter 8 Orville & Wilbur Wright Bicycle manufacturers Dayton, OH Dec. 17, 1903 Kitty Hawk, NC First flight

U.S. History Chapter 8 George Eastman New film process for cameras Introduced his Kodak to the masses in 1888

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.”

U.S. History Chapter 8 W.E.B. DuBois First African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard 1895

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

U.S. History Chapter 8 Ida B. Wells Local newspaper reporter that became know for her writing and lecturing for civil rights

U.S. History Chapter 8 Poll Tax An annual tax that had to be paid before being allowed to vote

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

U.S. History Chapter 8 Segregation Laws to separate blacks and whites in public and private facilities

U.S. History Chapter 8 Jim Crow Laws Common name for laws that segregated

U.S. History Chapter 8 Plessey v. Ferguson The Supreme Court decided that separate facilities for whites and blacks were ok as long as those facilities were equal THUS, SEPERATE BUT EQUAL.

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 declared Un-Constitutional

U.S. History Chapter 8 Joseph Pullitzer Publisher and owner of the New York World newspaper

U.S. History Chapter 8 William Randolph Hearst Publisher and owner of the New York Morning Journal newspaper

U.S. History Chapter 8 Ashcan School School of American Art that painted urban life and working people with gritty realism and no frills

U.S. History Chapter 8 Mark Twain Literary name for Samuel Clemens Author of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and other popular novels

U.S. History Chapter 8 Rural Free Delivery (RFD) 1896 – The post office brought packages directly to every home, including those in rural areas

U.S. History Chapter 8 Vaudeville Live theatrical performances that traveled the “circuit” bringing entertainment to the American Public