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Ch. 8 Gilded Age Culture

Science and Technology
Education
Segregation and Discrimination
Mass Culture

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Louis SullivanEarly leader of Architecture--skyscraper
Daniel BurnhamChicago architect--Flatiron building
Frederick Law OlmstedDeveloper of Central Park
Orville and Wilbur WrightBrothers who flew the first airplane
George EastmanInventor of the camera
Booker T. WashingtonProminent African-American educator
Tuskegee Normal & Industrial InstituteSchool headed by Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Du BoisFirst African American to receive Ph.D from Harvard
Niagara MovementInsisted that blacks should seek a liberal arts education
Ida B. WellsAfrican-American reformer who tried to end lynching
poll taxMoney one had to pay in order to vote
grandfather clauseClause that allowed poor, uneducated whites to vote
segregationThe word used to describe racial separation
Jim Crow lawsLaws that helped keep whites and blacks separate
Plessy v. FergusonCourt case that upheld the Jim Crow laws
debt peonageA system in which a person is forced to work to pay off debts
Joseph PulitzerOwner of the New York World newspaper
William Randolph HearstOwner of the New York Morning Journal & the San Francisco Examiner
Ashcan schoolA school of painting that featured urban life and working people with gritty realism
Mark TwainPen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens
rural free delivery (RFD)System that brought packages directly to homes


US History Teacher
Big Spring High School
Big Spring, TX

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