Ch 8 Flashcards
What did Fredrick law olmsted do?
Landscape architect who designed & made Central Park in New York possible
Urban planning involved what ?
Cost, space, natural boundaries, sewers
Booker T. Washington
African American educator who believed all African Americans should receive public education
He found a university
WEB du bois
First African American to graduate from Harvard
He believed in high education for African Americans
Segregation
Separation of people on the basis of race
African Americans faced what?
Segregation & discrimination
What did segregation do?
Separate facilities for whites & African Americans
Segregation has to be separate but equal, was it ever equal?
No
Example of segregation
Theaters
Restaurants
Bathrooms
Schools
Schools weren’t equal soo what happened?
Anti separate
Supreme Court
Interrogation
Jim crow laws
Laws enacted by southern states & local govs to separate white & black ppl in public and private facilities
What did the Jim Crow laws do?
They were strict
Prevent African Americans hy
from voting because if they elect someone it could help the cause.
Grandfather clause
Limited new African
American voters
Entitled to vote even if he failed the literacy test or could not pay the poll
Poll tax
Annual tax that had to be paid before qualifying to vote
Really poor blacks
Limit to voters
Grandfather clause
Poll tax
Literacy test- unfair harder on blacks
Leisure activities
Baseball Bicycling Tennis Amusement parks Spectator sports
Mass culture
Spreading of info and cultural ideas from 1 person to another
Example of mass culture
Newspaper and magazines to advertisements
It allowed people to order things by mail and delivered to your home
Discrimination
Legally treating people less equal because of laws
Racism
Purposely treating someone differently
Electric transit
Rapid Cleveland helps transport people
Suspension bridges
Old bridges could collapse and break
New bridges were better, safer
Public education details
8-14 years old
Improve literacy forced to go to school
Less kids needed to help for farm work
Skyscrapers
Build up, not across steel helped with the making
Helped with over crowding
Plessy vs ferguson
Supreme Court ruled that separation of races in public was legal. Separate but equal allowed states to maintain facilities but provide equal service
