Chapter 8: Life at the Turn of the 20th Century

Section 1 Science and Urban Life Technology and City Life Skyscrapers Louis Sullivan Electric Transit Engineering and Urban Planning Frederick Law Olmsted Central Park Louis Sullivan

New Technologies A Revolution in Printing Airplanes Orville and Wilbur Wright Photography Explosion George Eastman Evolution of Cameras Orville and Wilbur Wright

Section 2 Expanding Public Education Schools for Children The Growth of High Schools Racial Discrimination Education for Immigrants Catholic Edu.

Expanding Higher Education Changes In Universities Requirements Professional Schools Higher Education for African Americans Booker T. Washington Normal and Industrial Institute W. E. B Bois Niagara Movement Booker T. Washington

Section 3 Segregation and Discrimination African Americans Fight Legal Discrimination Voting Restrictions Poll Tax Literacy Tests Grandfather clause Jim Crow Laws Segregation Plessy Vs. Ferguson 1896

Turn-of-the-Century Race Relations Violence lynching Discrimination in the North Labor Unions New York City Race Riots Discrimination in the West Mexican Workers National Reclamation Act Debt peonage Excluding the Chinese Chinese Exclusion Act

Section 4 The Dawn of Mass Culture American Leisure Amusement Parks Bicycling and Tennis Spectator Sports Boxing and Baseball The Spread of Mass Culture Newspapers Pulitzer and Hearst Promoting the Fine Arts Galleries Fiction

New Ways to Sell Goods Urban Shopping Department Stores Retail shopping districts Department Stores Marshall Fields The Chain Store Woolworths Catalogs and RFD Montgomery Ward and Sears Rural Free Delivery