Utah Enters a New
Century
Chapter 12: Utah Life Reflects the
Nation
Your word is “smelter” Bell Activity
then work on your study guide.
 Today’s music is from 1910-1919 and features a new style of
music: Ragtime. This music has a fast beat than folk music, a
jagged rhythm, and is an ancestor of all fast paced music
today.
 Ragtime started when folk music from Europe was mixed with
beats and rhythms from Africa.
 This was rebellious teenage music for its time! If you were a
teenager back in the early 1900s, you probably would have
loved it and your parents would have hated it! Like Dubstep,
but in 1900! 
 Most of these songs are fun and optimistic, but others feature
social concerns of the day, especially families/children
leaving home to find work in big cities. ‘Come Josephine in
my Flying Machine’ expresses a sense of wonder at the new
technology from this era.
Does your work look something like
this?
Word:
smelter
My Understanding: 4 3 2 1
Definition:
Draw a picture of it:
Sentence:
Synonym/
Example:
Antonym/NonExample:
Does your work look something like
this?
Word:
smelter
My Understanding: 4 3 2 1
Definition: a place where metal is
separated from rock, usually by heat.
Sentence: The smelter removed the
impurities from the gold.
Synonym/
Example: refinery
Antonym/NonExample:
compactor
Draw a picture of it:
Today we will learn…
 History Objective –
 Language Objective –
We will be able to
describe how life in
Utah reflected the
events that was
happening in the rest
of the nation in the
20th Century.

We will read for
important information in
our books and use it to
answer questions on
our paper and our
study guide.
Behavior Objective –
Work Ethic: Stay
focused on the
assignment and finish it
in the given time.
 World War I – 1914-1919
 The Great Depression –
(1920s)1929-1939
 World War II – 1939-1945
Electricity & Technology
Makes Life Easier …sort of.
 Businesses are often the first to
use new technology, especially in
factories and mining.
 Electric trains became more common throughout the
state.
 There was even an electric streetcar system in Cache
Valley.
 By the 1920s, buses and cars began replacing
streetcars.
 By 1900 there were only about 20 cars in Utah. By 1909,
there were about 873 cars and trucks.
 Eventually, Utah and the U.S. become a ‘car culture’ and
many public transit systems are dismantled (and then
reassembled at great expense when gasoline prices and
environmental concerns make cars troublesome).
Electricity & Technology
Makes Life Easier…sort of
 Utahns saw an airplane flight in 1910,
seven years after the Wright brothers’
first flight in North Carolina.
 “Barn-storming” became a popular form
of entertainment.
 In 1896, Utah was just beginning to
use electricity, but it gradually began
to be more common in homes and businesses.
 In 1913, Utah began to see lights become part
of homes and by the 1930s many household
started to use gadgets that are common today:
washing machines, vacuums, irons, etc.
Inventions for the New Century
Invention
Automobiles
First Used in
the US
1900
First Used in
Utah
1900
Airplanes
1903
1927
Radios
1906
1922
Movies (silent)
1905
1905
War in Europe
 Tensions in Europe between
the major powers of the day
eventually escalated into
outright war.
 The war went on for several
years before the United
States was drawn into the
conflict.
 When German submarines,
called U-boats, had fired
torpedoes on unarmed
American merchant ships.
 America and Utah entered
the war when U.S. President
Wilson asked Congress for a
declaration of war in 1917.
The “Great War”
 Utah men volunteered to help fight in the
“war to end all wars”.
 The mines that became Kennecott
produced copper and other minerals to
supply guns and ammunition.
 Utah inventor John Browning from
Ogden developed the first automatic
machine fun purchased by the U.S.
government.
 Utah also helped to supply food to troops
in Europe and relieve a famine that was
causing the people of Europe to starve.
 Organizations like the LDS Relief
Society and other church groups in
Utah were asked by the federal
government to donate wheat to ship
over seas.
 Finally, on November 11, 1918 at 11
o’clock the guns in Europe fell silent. The
war was over.
 Over 30 million people had died.