Chapter 16 Flashcards
Louis Sullivan
designed the ten story Wainwright Building (skyscraper)
Daniel Burnham
designed the Flatiron Building (skyscraper)
Fredrick Law Olmsted
landscape architect who spearheaded the movement of planned urban parks
George Eastman
replaced heavy glass plates for photography with film that could be rolled into a spool
Booker T. Washington
- LABOR SKILLS to prove economic value and stop racism
- headed the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
W.E.B. Du Bois
- first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard
- disagreed with Washington
Niagara Movement
- founded by Du Bois
- insisted that blacks should seek a liberal arts education so African-American community would have well educated leaders
Ida B. Wells
- was a teacher in Memphis and later became an editor of a local paper
- wrote about racial justice
poll tax
annual tax tat had to be paid before qualifying to vote
grandfather clause
a person could vote if he, his father, or his grandfather had been eligible to vote (were not free before then, so couldn’t vote)
Plessy v. Ferguson
separation of races was legal and did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment
debt peonage
system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a debt to the employer
Joseph Pulitzer
- Hungarian immigrant who bought the New York World
- large Sunday edition, comics, sport coverage, women’s news
William Randolph Hearst
- Pulitzer’s main competitor
- bought the New York Morning Journal
- filled the journal with exaggerated tales
Ashcan schoool
- painted urban life and working people with gritty realism
- led by Robert Henri
Thomas Eakins
artist who embraced realism
rural free delivery (RFD)
system that brought packages directly to every home
