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Chapter 8 Life at the Turn of the 20th Century

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Louis SullivanDesigned a ten story building in St. Louis, which he called a sky-scraper.
Daniel BurnhamDesigned the Flat Iron Building in New York City.
Frederick Law OmsteadLanscape architect who spearheaded the movement of planned urban parks and helped design Central Park.
Orville and Wilbur WrightThey made the first successful airplane flight.
George EastmanHe created the first roll-film camera.
Booker T. WashingtonAfrican American educator who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful skills and proved their economic value to society.
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial InstituteSchool aimed to equip African Americans with teaching diplomas and useful skills in agricultural, domestic, and agricultural works.
W.E.B. BoisThe first African Maerican to receive a doctorate from Havard and a critic of Booker T. Washington.
Niagra MovementInsisted that blacksshould seek a liberal arts education so that the African-American community would have well-educated leaders.
Ida B. WellsA leader in the movement to end lynching African-Americans.
poll taxAn annual tax that had to be paid before qulifying to vote.
grandfather clauseEven if a man failed a literact test or could not afford a poll tax, he could vote if he, his father, or his grandfather had been eligible to vote before 1/1/1867.
segregationLaws seperating black and white people in public facilities.
Jim Crow LawsLaws that enforced segregation.
Plessy v. FergusonThe Supreme Court ruling that separation of rces in public accomadations was legal and did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment.
debt peonageA system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a debt to an employer.
Jospeh PulitzerOwner of the New York World who pioneered popular newspaper inovation.
William Randol;ph HearstOwner of the New York Mourning Journal who sought to outdo Pulitzer withj sensational new coverage.
Ashcan schoolAmerican art style that focused on urban life and working people.
Mark TwainPen name of Samuel Clemens who wrote classics of American literature like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
rural free delivery (RFD)Post Office system that brought packages directly to every home.


Pearland High School
Pearland, TX

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