Transcript
Page 1: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Chapter 16

Life at the Turn of the Century

Page 2: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

SkyscrapersLouis Sullivan Daniel BurnhamWainwright Building Flatiron Building

Page 3: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Modern Architecture

Page 4: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Urban and City Planning became important

Trying to incorporate a little order and serenity into the chaotic city life

Page 5: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Fredrick Law OlmstedCentral Park

Page 6: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

New Technologies

Page 7: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Web Perfect printing press

• Prints both sides of the paper

• Prints from a continuous roll of paper

• Cuts the paper• Folds the paper

Page 8: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Airplanes

• Orville and Wilbur Wright

• December 17, 1903

• Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

• 120 feet• 12 seconds

Page 9: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Single person Aircraft

Page 10: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Taking off and Landing on a ship

Page 11: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Passenger travel

Page 12: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Space Travel

Page 13: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

George Eastman

• Kodak camera• Flexible film used

to capture the image

Page 14: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Education would go under further reform

• Elementary schools would increase the student attendance from only attending between harvest times to 12 to 16 weeks of education per year

• High schools were developed to increase the educational experience

• Curriculums expanded from writing, reading, and arithmetic; to science, civics, and social studies.

Page 15: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Education would continue to be a challenge for blacks

• Only 3 % of blacks would go to high school

• Immigrants however were encouraged to attend school

Page 16: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Expanding Higher Education

• Colleges and Universities were developed

Page 17: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Booker T. WashingtonTuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute

Page 18: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

W.E.B. Dubois1st Black man to graduate from Harvard

Page 19: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Niagara Movement

• WEB Dubois founder• Black Males should

seek liberal arts education to be educated leaders of their communities

• Forefather of NAACP

Page 20: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

African Americans fight legal discrimination

Page 21: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Voting Restrictions

• Poll Tax• Literacy test• Grandfather clause – added to

ensure that blacks could not vote

Page 22: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Segregation – The policy or practice of isolating or separating an ethnic group or race, as in schools, housing, and employment.

Segregation was legal and reinforced by what legislation

Page 23: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building
Page 24: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Jim Crow Rules the South

Page 25: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Signs of Jim Crow

Page 26: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Dawn of Mass Culture

Page 27: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Amusement Parks

• Coney Island

• 1st Roller Coaster

• Ferris wheel

• Picnic Grounds

Page 28: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Bicycling fads

Page 29: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Playing tennis became a past time

Page 30: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Sold for first time in 1900

Page 31: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Atlanta Pharmacist developed as a cure for headaches; made from Peruvian coca leaves

Page 32: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

America’s Pastime

Abner Doubleday

Page 33: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Mass Circulation of Newspapers

Joseph Pulitzer William Randolph Hearst

Page 34: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Samuel Langhorne Clemmons

• Mark Twain• Adventures of

Huckleberry Finn• Tom Sawyer

Page 35: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Economics began to change

Page 36: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Marshal Field’s department storeCatered to women shoppers

Page 37: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Woolworth’s became the first chain store (Five and dime’s)

Page 38: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Sex Sells

Page 39: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Coolness Sells

Page 40: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Catalogs and Home shopping added convenience to the shopping dilemma

Page 41: Chapter 16 Life at the Turn of the Century. Skyscrapers Louis SullivanDaniel Burnham Wainwright BuildingFlatiron Building

Other Catalogs

• Montgomery Ward• Sears and Roebuck• Then came rural free delivery

(RFD)• 1910, 10 million Americans

shopped by mail