American History II
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Urban Life and Education
From: Chapter 16, Section 1; pp. 482-487 – Science and Urban Life
Technology and City Life
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What laid the groundwork for modern city life?
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How many people made their homes in cities by the turn of the century?
Skyscrapers
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What two factors enabled architects to design taller buildings?
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b.
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According to architect Frank Lloyd Wright, what was America’s greatest contribution to architecture?
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What problems did skyscrapers solve?
Electric Transit
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How were street cars first powered?
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What transformed urban transportation?
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Who became the first city to electrify its urban transportation?
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As what else were electric street cars referred?
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What fed the growth of the suburbs?
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What were “el” trains that a few large cities commissioned?
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What did other cities, like New York, do?
Engineering and Urban Planning
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Besides bringing sections of the city closer together, what did the Brooklyn Bridge provide?
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For what did the design of the Brooklyn Bridge provide?
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What inspired the science of urban planning?
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What were city planners trying to restore?
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Who spearheaded the movement for planned urban parks?
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Olmstead helped design Greensward. What would this space become?
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In what other cities did Olmstead design park space?
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City Planning
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What problem did Chicago’s population growth present?
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What did Daniel Burnham do with a swampy area near Lake Michigan?
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What did Burnham leave Chicago that was even more important than the White City?
New Technologies
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Besides the railroad network, what else would speed the transfer of information?
A Revolution in Printing
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What was the literacy rate in the US by 1890?
25.
As a result, what was increasing?
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What was used to produce huge quantities of cheap paper?
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What did faster production and lower cost make newspapers and magazines?
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How much did some newspapers cost?
Airplanes
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With what did Orville and Wilbur Wright begin experimenting in the early 20th century?
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What did they build first?
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What did they commission?
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When was their first successful flight?
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With their first flight going 120 ft and lasting 12 seconds, how long did they begin flying within 2 years?
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What had the US government established by 1920?
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Photography Explosion
35.
What was photography before 1880?
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Why could photographers not take a picture of a moving object?
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Who develop a series of alternatives to the heavy glass plates?
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Instead of using heavy glass plates and carrying their darkrooms around with them, what did photographers do?
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What did Eastman do when professional photographers were slow to use his new film?
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When did Eastman introduce his new camera?
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What did the purchase price of $25 include?
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Once the pictures were taken, what did the consumer do next?
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What did the ease of use prompt Americans to do?
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What else did the new camera help create?
From: Chapter 16, Section 2; p. 488-491 – Expanding Public Education
One American’s Story
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According to William Torrey Harris, what would public education be able to do?
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Whose educational ideas were promoted by Harris?
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What was Harris’ main belief about schools?
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How did other reforms view schools?
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Upon what did economic development depend?
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To what was education the key?
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How did others see public schools?
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What did most people believe about public schools?
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Expanding Education
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Why were many school aged children not receiving a formal education after the Civil War?
Schools for Children
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What did the state laws passed between 1865 and 1895 require?
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What did the curriculum emphasize?
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What drew criticism and made students miserable?
13.
Outside of the public school system, what became increasingly popular?
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How did educational opportunities between white and black children compare?
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When would a public school education become widely available to a majority of black children in the South?
The Growth of High Schools
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As industrialism expanded, what did the economy demand?
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What did many business leaders feel would be necessary to keep workers loyal to capitalism?
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How many students were in high schools by early 1900?
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How had the curriculum expanded?
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What were the new vocational courses preparing the male students to do?
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What were they doing for females?