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Life at the Turn of the 20 th Century Chapter 16

Life at the Turn of the 20 th Century Chapter 16

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Life at the Turn of the 20th Century

Chapter 16

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Technology

• Skyscrapers• Electric Trasit – Subways and cable cars• City plannig• Paper and double sided printing• Cars – invented in Europe – Karl Benz

(modern)• Airplanes – Orville and Wilbur Wright• Handheld camera – could photo movement

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Rise of Education

• All children be educated from 8 to 14

• Growing High Schools

• Immigrants gain “Americanized” education

• African Americans– Tuskeegee University – Booker T. Washington– W.E. B. Du Bois – 1st Af. Am. Doctor

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Segregation and Discrimination

• Segregation – separating the races– Jim Crow Laws

• Poll taxes

• Plessy vs. Ferguson – “separate but equal”

• Violence twards minorities

• Debt Peonage – workers held into “slavery” to pay off a debt– Mostly Mexican railroad workers

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Mass Culture

• Amusement Parks• Bicycling• Spectator Sports – Baseball, Football,

Basketball, etc.• Newspapers• Fine Arts• Fiction• Shopping – departments stores, chains,

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