Cover Slide
The American
Pageant
Chapter 25
America Moves to
the City, 1865-1900
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Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells was a well-known crusader
against lynching. (Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture, New York
Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden
Foundations)
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Scribner's magazine cover
Scribner's magazine cover
Athletics, the bicycle vogue, and
colleges for women such as Wellesley,
all portrayed in this May, 1898 magazine
cover, helped give middle-class young
women a sense of new possibilities at the
dawn of the twentieth century. (Courtesy,
Wellesley College Archives)
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W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois
A brilliant young intellectual, W.E.B. Du Bois had to choose between leading the life
of a quiet college professor or challenging Booker T. Washington's claim to speak on
behalf of all African Americans. (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture,
New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations)
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Map: Major Indian-White Clashes in the West
Major Indian-White Clashes in the West
Although they were never recognized as such in the popular press, the battles between Native Americans and the U.S. Army
on the Great Plains amounted to a major undeclared war.
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Map: Urbanization, 1880 and 1920
Urbanization, 1880 and 1920
In 1880 the vast majority of states still were heavily rural. By 1920 only a few had less than 20 percent of their population
living in cities.
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