Ch 8 Flashcards

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What did Fredrick law olmsted do?

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Landscape architect who designed & made Central Park in New York possible

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Urban planning involved what ?

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Cost, space, natural boundaries, sewers

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Booker T. Washington

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African American educator who believed all African Americans should receive public education
He found a university

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WEB du bois

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First African American to graduate from Harvard

He believed in high education for African Americans

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Segregation

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Separation of people on the basis of race

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African Americans faced what?

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Segregation & discrimination

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What did segregation do?

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Separate facilities for whites & African Americans

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Segregation has to be separate but equal, was it ever equal?

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No

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Example of segregation

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Theaters
Restaurants
Bathrooms
Schools

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Schools weren’t equal soo what happened?

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Anti separate
Supreme Court
Interrogation

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Jim crow laws

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Laws enacted by southern states & local govs to separate white & black ppl in public and private facilities

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What did the Jim Crow laws do?

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They were strict
Prevent African Americans hy
from voting because if they elect someone it could help the cause.

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Grandfather clause

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Limited new African
American voters
Entitled to vote even if he failed the literacy test or could not pay the poll

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Poll tax

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Annual tax that had to be paid before qualifying to vote

Really poor blacks

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Limit to voters

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Grandfather clause
Poll tax
Literacy test- unfair harder on blacks

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Leisure activities

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Baseball
Bicycling
Tennis
Amusement parks 
Spectator sports
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Mass culture

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Spreading of info and cultural ideas from 1 person to another

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Example of mass culture

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Newspaper and magazines to advertisements

It allowed people to order things by mail and delivered to your home

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Discrimination

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Legally treating people less equal because of laws

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Racism

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Purposely treating someone differently

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Electric transit

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Rapid Cleveland helps transport people

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Suspension bridges

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Old bridges could collapse and break

New bridges were better, safer

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Public education details

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8-14 years old
Improve literacy forced to go to school
Less kids needed to help for farm work

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Skyscrapers

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Build up, not across steel helped with the making

Helped with over crowding

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Plessy vs ferguson

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Supreme Court ruled that separation of races in public was legal. Separate but equal allowed states to maintain facilities but provide equal service