CHAPTER 8 PRESENTATIONS

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CHAPTER 8 PRESENTATIONS PERIOD 6
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What Did You Learn?
By 1900, how much money was being used for
advertisement?
What does RFD stand for?
Rural Free Delivery
95 million
How many languages was Wards catalog in?
Ten
What product was most advertised?
What did Montgomery Ward Sears bring to small
towns?
Medicine
Retail Merchandise
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Questions

• The Victor bicycle of 1885 was the first
  commercially successful?
• Safety Bicycle
• What happened in the Worlds 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

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Questions

• Who was the architect who remade Chicago?
• What two people designed Central Park?
• What year was this?
• What was the original name plan for Central Park?
• What brought city sections closer together?
• Who designed the initial design for the Emerald
  Necklace?
• Whos motto was Make no little Plans?

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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

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Questions
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• Because white people feared job competition with
  the Chinese immigrants, the Chinese were pushed
  into what?
• Mexicans were also vital to the development of
  ______ __________in the South West.

• Segregated schools and neighborhoods

mining
agriculture
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Some more Questions

• In 1902, what act gave government assistance for
  irrigation projects.
• Discrimination in the West included
  discrimination against what two groups?

• National Southwest Act

• Mexican workers and Chinese

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Question 1

• List four things that brought new culture
  opportunities to more people.

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Answer

• A1 Art galleries, libraries, books and museums.

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Question 2

• Name one way that American newspapers use to
  captivate readers attention.

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Answer

• Sensational headings

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Question 3

• Name a few ways that the American Artist Thomas
  Eakins use to embrace realism.

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Answer

• Study anatomy with medical students
• Use painstaking geometric perspective in his work
• Use photography to make realistic studies of
  people and animals

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Question 4

• What kind of art challenged Eakins and the Ashcan
  School?

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Answer

• Abstract art

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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 Fields 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.

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QUESTIONS

• 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
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So in conclusion...
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.
QUESTIONS! (YAY)
You get candy if you get it right!
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Sarah Orne Jewett, Theodore Dreiser, Stephen
Crane, Jack London, Willa Cather, Mark Twain
1. Name two famous novelists during this period?
2. What is Mark Twains real name?
Samuel Clemens
3. Who wrote Deadwood Dick?
Edward Wheeler
4. Name one group that had very little access to
literature?
African Americans
5. Name two of Mark Twains most famous novels?
Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
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Quiz

• 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
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Questions!
1. Question What year were the negro
leagues formed in?
1. Answer The Negro leagues were formed in 1920.
4. Question What were the two sports that emerged
at the beginning of the 20th century?
2. Question Who was baseball was invented by?
2. Answer Baseball was invented by 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.
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Quiz Time!
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
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3
Private
concerned
Protestant
Sociology Department
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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
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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
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Go Aggies!
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IN 1888 what was the first American city to
electrify its' urban transit?
Answer
Richmond, Virginia
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Who designed the Flatiron Building?
Answer
Daniel Burnham
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What are the benefits of Skyscrapers?
It solved the problem of how to make the best use
of limited space
Answer
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What were factors that allowed taller buildings
to be constructed?

• invention of elevators
• development of internal steel skeletons.

Answer
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Questions

• Who helped to annex kindergarten into the school
  system?
• How many weeks of school were there annually
  between 1865 1895?
• What professions did high schools offer to males
  females?
• By 1920 what percent of Americans could read and
  write?

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Answers

• William Torrey Harris
• 12 16
• Males carpentry and mechanicsFemales office
  work
• 94

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Questions

• Seperated white and black people in public and
  private facilities
• 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
• Had to be paid annually before qualifying to vote

C A B

• 1___ Poll Tax
• 2___ Segregation Laws
• 3___ Grandfather Clause

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
Poll tax grandfather clause
Debt peonage