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U.S. History I > Life at the Turn of the 20th Century - Chapter 16 > Flashcards

Life at the Turn of the 20th Century - Chapter 16 Flashcards

To analyze significant turn-of-the-20th-century trends in such areas as technology, education, race relations, and mass culture.

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Early leader of architecture

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Louis Sullivan

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Chicago architect

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Daniel Burnham

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Developer of Central Park

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Frederick Law Olmsted

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Brothers who flew the first airplane

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Orville and Wilbur Wright

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Inventor of the camera

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George Eastman

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Prominent African-American educator

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Booker T. Washington

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School headed by Booker T. Washington

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Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute

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First African American to receive Ph.D from Harvard

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W.E.B. Du Bois

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Insisted that blacks should seek a liberal arts education

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Niagara Movement

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African-American reformer who tried to end lynching

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Ida B. Wells

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Money one had to pay in order to vote

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Poll tax

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Clause that allowed poor, uneducated whites to vote

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Grandfather clause

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The word used to describe racial separation

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Segregation

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Laws that helped keep whites and blacks separate

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Jim Crow Laws

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Court case that upheld the Jim Crow Laws

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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A system in which a person is forced to work to pay off debts

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Debt Peonage

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Owner of the New York World newspaper

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Joseph Pulitzer

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Owner of the New York Morning Journal San Francisco Examiner

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William Randolph Hearst

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A school of painting that featured urban life and working people with gritty realism

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Ashcan School

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Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens

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Mark Twain

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System that brought packages directly to homes

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Rural free delivery (RFD)

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