CHAPTER 8 PRESENTATIONS

PERIOD 6

By 1900, how much money was being used for advertisement?

What does RFD stand for?

What product was most advertised?

How many languages was Ward’s catalog in?

What did Montgomery Ward & Sears bring to small towns?

$95 millionRural Free Delivery

Ten

Medicine Retail Merchandise

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?”

Questions1. 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?

2. Mexicans were also vital to the development of ______ & __________in the South West.

mining agriculture

Segregated schools and neighborhoods

3. In 1902, what act gave government assistance for irrigation projects.

4. Discrimination in the West included discrimination against what two groups?

Mexican workers and Chinese

National Southwest Act

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• Where and When did 1st shopping center open?

*Cleveland, Ohio in 1890

• What made binging more shoppers from other areas possible?*Public Transportation

• Who was Marshall Field?*First to bring concept of department stores to U.S.

• What was Field’s motto and how was it derived?*”give the lady what she wants” discovered clerks need pay more attention to women.

• What is a chain store?*retail store that offers same merchandise under same ownership.

• 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 senttheir 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?

2. Answer Baseball was invented by Alexander Cartwright.

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.

4. Question What were the two sports that emerged at the beginning of the 20th century?

4. Answer The two sports the emerged at the beginning of the centaury were boxing and baseball.

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 teens attended high school.

2: In 1910, ______ percent of African Americans between ages 15-19 attended high school. However, majority still attended _________ schools.

3: Catholics were ________ because schools had mandatory readings from the ________ King James Version of the Bible.

4: Ford established a “___________________” to teach them American ways.

1890 1

3

Private

concerned Protestant

Sociology Department

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 mechanicsFemales: office work

4) 94%

1___ Poll Tax2___ Segregation Laws3___ 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?

A system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a debt to the employer was called…

C

A

B

Poll tax & grandfather clause

Debt peonage