CHAPTER 8
PRESENTATIONS
PERIOD 6
By 1900, how much
money was being used
for advertisement?
What does RFD stand for?
Rural Free Delivery
$95 million
How many languages
was Ward’s catalog in?
Ten
What product was
most advertised?
Medicine
What did Montgomery Ward &
Sears bring to small towns?
Retail Merchandise
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Questions
The Victor bicycle of 1885 was the first commercially
successful?
Safety Bicycle
What happened in the World’s Columbian Exposition
in Chicago in 1893?
The appearance of the first Ferris wheel
What mass produced object gave women a feeling of
freedom and self-reliance?
The Bicycle
What modern version of this sport originated in
Northern Whales in 1873?
Tennis
1. Who was the architect who remade Chicago?
2. What two people designed Central Park?
3. What year was this?
4. What was the original name plan for Central Park?
5. What brought city sections closer together?
6. Who designed the initial design for the Emerald
Necklace?
7. Who’s motto was “Make no little Plans?”
Questions
1. Between ____ and ____ blacks founded ____,___, and _____ universities
1865, 1868 / Howard , Atlanta, Fisk
2. ____ was a prominent African American Educator
Booker T. Washington
3._____ was first African American to receive a doctrine from Harvard
W.E.B Du Bois
4.
Du Bois referred to educated blacks as the most ______ of the community
Talented Tenth
1. Because white people feared job
competition with the Chinese immigrants,
the Chinese were pushed into what?
Segregated schools and neighborhoods
2. Mexicans were also vital to the
mining & __________in
agriculture
development of ______
the South West.
3. In 1902, what act gave government
assistance for irrigation projects.
National Southwest Act
4. Discrimination in the West included
discrimination against what two groups?
 Mexican workers and Chinese
Question #1
• List four things that brought
new culture opportunities to
more people.
Answer~
• A1: Art galleries, libraries,
books and museums.
Question #2
• Name one way that American
newspapers use to captivate
readers’ attention.
Answer~
• Sensational headings
Question #3
• Name a few ways that the
American Artist Thomas Eakins
use to embrace realism.
Answer~
• Study anatomy with medical students
• Use painstaking geometric
perspective in his work
• Use photography to make realistic
studies of people and animals
Question #4
• What kind of art challenged
Eakins and the Ashcan School?
Answer~
• Abstract art
Questions and Answers
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Where and When did 1st shopping center open?
*Cleveland, Ohio in 1890
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What made binging more shoppers from other areas possible?
*Public Transportation
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Who was Marshall Field?
*First to bring concept of department stores to U.S.
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What was Field’s motto and how was it derived?
*”give the lady what she wants” discovered clerks need pay more attention to women.
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What is a chain store?
*retail store that offers same merchandise under same ownership.
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What was F.W. Woolworth's strategy of selling goods
*selling at very low price by buying in quantity and limiting personal service.
•Who changed the direction of photography?
A: George Eastman
•What doors did the development of the new camera open to new
photographers?
A: A field of photojournalism
•What are some of the differences between the old and new cameras?
A: They could now shoot a moving object, and photographers sent
their film to be developed.
•What was one of the first moving moments caught on
camera?
A: The Wright Brothers 1st successful flight at Kitty Hawk
The American literary level had improved
at this time to another higher level. Most of the
Americans favor short, easy-read adventurous
novels such as Deadwood Dick and Tom
Sawyer. The dime novels became popular
throughout this period though we rarely see
them nowadays.
You get candy if you get it right!
1. Name two famous novelists during this
period?
2. What is Mark Twain’s real name?
3. Who wrote Deadwood Dick?
4. Name one group that had very
little access to literature?
5. Name two of Mark Twain’s most
famous novels?
• What was the literacy rate in the United States in 1890?
90%
• Who developed the printing press?
Johannes Gutenberg
• Who built the first airplane?
Orville and Wilbur Wright
•How long was the first flight?
12 seconds
Questions!
1. Question What year were the negro
leagues formed in?
1. Answer The Negro leagues were formed in
1920.
2. Question Who was baseball was invented by? 4. Question What were the two sports
that emerged at the beginning of the
2. Answer Baseball was invented by
20th century?
Alexander Cartwright.
4. Answer The two sports the
emerged at the beginning of the
centaury were boxing and
baseball.
3. Question Where did the first World Series take place in 1903 and
who won the game?
3. Answer The first world series took place in Boston
and was won by the Pilgrims.
5. Question When were the National and American leagues formed?
5. Answer The National league was formed in 1876 and the American league was
formed in the 1900s.
1: In _____,
fewer than ____
percent of black
1890
1
teens attended high school.
2: In 1910, ______
percent of African Americans
3
between ages 15-19 attended high school. However,
Private
majority still attended _________
schools.
concerned
3: Catholics were ________
because schools had
Protestant King
mandatory readings from the ________
James Version of the Bible.
Sociology Department
4: Ford established a “___________________”
to
teach them American ways.
Q and A
• What stated that if your father could vote before
January 1, 1867 you could vote whether or not you
passed literary or other tests?
Answer: The Grandfather Clause
• This case in effect legalized segregation
Answer: Plessy vs. Ferguson
• What had to be paid annually to vote?
Answer: A Poll Tax
Q and A
• What was the supreme Courts reasoning for
upholding Segregation?
Answer: It did not violate 14th Amendment.
• These laws segregated Blacks from Whites
even further than voting restrictions_______?
Answer: Jim Crow Laws
Go Aggies!
Richmond, Virginia
Daniel Burnham
It solved the problem of how
to make the best use of limited
space
 invention of elevators
 development of internal
steel skeletons.
1) Who helped to annex kindergarten into the
school system?
2) How many weeks of school were there
annually between 1865 & 1895?
3) What professions did high schools offer to
males; females?
4) By 1920 what percent of Americans could
read and write?
1) William Torrey Harris
2) 12 – 16
3) Males: carpentry and mechanics
Females: office work
4) 94%
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A
1___
Poll Tax
2___ Segregation Laws
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3___ Grandfather Clause
A. Seperated white and black people in public
and private facilities
B. Stated that even if a man failed the literacy
test or could not pay the poll tax, he was
entitled to vote if he, his father, or his
grandfather had been eligible to vote before
January 1, 1967
C. Had to be paid annually before qualifying to
vote
What two main things were implemented to insure less blacks could vote but made
sure that whites still could?
Poll tax & grandfather clause
A system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a debt to the employer
was called…
Debt peonage