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Life at the Turn of the 20th Century
Chapter 16
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
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
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
Mass Culture
• Amusement Parks• Bicycling• Spectator Sports – Baseball, Football,
Basketball, etc.• Newspapers• Fine Arts• Fiction• Shopping – departments stores, chains,
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