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Growing Up in a New Century (1900)

What were the games, terms, authors, political issues, toys, songs, etc. that children in the early 1900s knew?

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“Cheapest Supply House on Earth”Sears Roebuck and Company Catalog
Model T Fordold-fashioned car
Author of The Wonderful Wizard of OzFrank Baum
The White Plague, a diseasetuberculosis
Theodore RooseveltPresident of the United States 1901-1908
Orphan TrainCarried some children to find new homes
Founder of Hull HouseJane Adams
America’s Civil War1861-1865: North against South
Breaker BoysBoys who worked in coal mines
Mother JonesLabor reformer
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)Author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Thomas EdisonInventor of the light bulb & other inventions
Ring-a-Ring-a-RosyChildhood game
Peter PanThe boy who would not grow up
Teddy BearToy named for Theodore Roosevelt
Beatrix PotterAuthor of The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Scott JoplinFamous jazz & ragtime musician
GramophoneA wind-up music machine that played round, unbreakable disks.
"Alice Blue Gown"A song about Alice Roosevelt, President Teddy Roosevelt's daughter
Fox-and-GeeseA popular wheel-shaped game in 1900



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