Unit #2: Industrialization & Rise to World Power PHOTO JOURNAL America at the Turn of the Century

Changes in Mass Culture Music Writing: journalism & novels Sports: baseball ArchitectureEducation Department stores: Sears & Montgomery Wards AutomobilesPhotography

Music Antonin Dvorzák : Czech composer, lived in New York City –Incorporated African-American themes & American folk music Charles Ives –Used American folk themes even though they were not performed until much later Scott Joplin (African-American) –Best known for “ragtime” music –Inspired jazz in 1920’s

Journalism Muckrakers: name applied to American writers who attempted to expose abuses of business & corruption in politics Printing Advances: produced paper & printed faster & was able to print on 2 sides Jacob Riis (1890) How the Other Half Lives Ida Tarbell (1904) The History of the Standard Oil Company 1906 S.S. McClure’s magazine published “muckraking” articles

Sports: BASEBALL Page from Spaulding Baseball Guide, 1911 Cy Young, famous baseball player, 1890 Cy Young’s baseball card picture, 1911

Architecture Frank Lloyd Wright –Used geometry which symbolized “order” –organic architecture: evolves naturally out of the context of surroundings organic architectureorganic architecture –Used wood carvings & straight edges Pfeiffer Chapel, Florida, 1938 Wright’s home, built c. 1898

Architecture: City Skyline Skyscrapers – : Louis Sullivan designed ten-story Wainwright Building in St. Louis – 1902: Daniel Burnham designed Flatiron Building on one of New York City’s busiest street corners Wainwright Building, St. Louis (1891) Flatiron Building, NYC (1902)

Education: UNIVERSITIES John Rockefeller founded many universities Education was seen as a solution to everything “un-American” – Educating people would solve society’s problems Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, University of Chicago (1928) Rockefeller University (1901)

Department Stores Montgomery Wards (1883) Sears, Roebuck, & Co. (1886) **The first catalog/mail-order companies **Started advertising wars with each other **Headquarters for both were in Chicago, IL Montgomery Ward & Co, Catalog House (1914) Sears, Roebuck, & Co. Administration Building (1914)

Transportation Roadster, 1923 New York City subway opens in 1904 Wright brothers’ first flight in 1903 Elevated “el” Trains, c. 1900

Photography 1888: George Eastman introduced his Kodak camera –100-picture roll of film –Sent away for developing & printing –First hand held camera

How did each of these contribute to people’s ideas about achieving the “American Dream?” How does viewing these advances change your view of the “American Dream?” (½ page paragraph each question) Reflective Question