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| Louis Sullivan | designed the ten-story skyscraper Wainwright Building in St. Louis |
| Frederick Law Olmsted | headed the movement for planned urban parks including Central Park |
| Central Park | Park featuring boating, tennis, a zoo and bicycle paths in New York |
| Daniel Burnham | an architect who transformed a swampy area near Lake Michigan into a glistening White City for Chicago's 1893 columbian Exposition |
| Orville and Wilbur Wright | Invented the first airplane |
| web-perfecting press | an electrically powered press that prints on both sides of a continuous roll of paper, then cuts, folds, and counts the pages |
| Linotype machine | a keyboard-operated typesetting device that casts each line of type as a whole |
| George Eastman | developed a paper-based film as an alternative to heavy glass plates while developing pictures |
| W.E.B DuBois | first African American to receive a dotorate from Harvard |
| Booker T. Washington | believed that racism would end once African Americans acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society |
| Thomas Eakins | one of the American artists who began to embrace realism |
| Mark Twain | novelist who wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Ida Wells | African American woman who fought against lynching. |
| literacy test | a reading test formerly used in some Southern states to prevent African Americans from voting |
| poll tax | an annual tax that formerly had to be paid in some Southern states by anyone wishing to vote |
| grandfather clause | a provision that exempts certain people from a law on the basis of previously existing circumstances-especially a clause formerly in some Southern states' constitutions that exempted whites from the strict voting requirements used to keep African Americans from the polls |
| Jim Crow Laws | laws enacted by Southern state and local governments to seperate white and black people in public and private facilities |
| segregation | the seperation of people on the basis of race |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | an 1896 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that separation of the races in public accommodations was legal, thus establishing the "separate but equal" doctrine |
| debt peonage | a system in which workers are bound in servitude until their debts are paid |
| vaudeville | a form of stage entertainment that features a variety of short performances, including songs, dances, and comedy routines |
| ragtime | a form of music, originating in the 1880s, in which the styles of African-Amercian spirituals and European music were blended |
| Joseph Pulitzer | Hungarian immigrant who had pioneered popular innovations, such as a alarge Sunday edition, coics, sports coverage, and womens news. Emphasized "sin, sex, and sensation" |
| William Randoph Hearst | purchased the New York Morning Journal. Filled the Journal with exaggerated tales of personal scandals, cruelty, hynotism and an imaginary conquest of mars. |
| department store | a large retail store that offers a wide variety of goods and services |
| mail order catalogs | books showing merchandise that can be ordered and delivered through the mail |
| rural free delivery | the free government delivery of mail and packages to homes in rural areas, begun in 1896 |
