Changes at the Turn of the Century How does technology & education change America?

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Changes at the Turn of the Century Changes at the Turn of the Century

How does technology & education change America?

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Technology in the City• Louis Sullivan designs the skyscraper: tall, narrow building w/ elevators &

internal steel skeletons

• Transportation: electrified streetcars, trains & subways, steel cabled bridges• Urban planning allows for open space in cities

• However, more people in taller planning runs higher risks (fire)

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Pop Culture - Entertainment• Eight hour workday gives people more free time• 1883: first Ferris wheel (Chicago Expo) & first rollercoaster

(Coney Island, NY)• Bicycling, tennis, spectator sports (boxing & baseball) popular

• Vaudeville & Ragtime are popular shows & music

• Wright Brothers Airplane will start aviation & travel industry

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• Pulitzer & Hearst begin daily newspapers

• 1890: First department store & chain store (FW Woolworth)

• George Eastman introduces roll film & the Kodak camera

Spread of Pop Culture

• Mailed catalogs allow purchases w/o leaving house

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Expanding Public Education• Mandatory schooling for children age 8-14

• 1900: US sees the growth of High Schools: with expanded curriculum expanded include science, civics, and social studies

• HS also offer vocational courses for males: drafting, carpentry, mechanics, clerical courses for females: typing, short hand, filing

• Literacy increases from 80%in 1870 to 95% by 1920

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An Unequal Education

• Racial Discrimination: Most African Americans excluded from public secondary education (HS), attend “black schools” for K-8

• Immigrants encouraged to go to school to quickly become “Americanized”, adults go to night school to learn English

-Expanding Higher Education – more colleges admit students

-African-Americans must attend own universities. Birth of the “Black College” (Howard, Grambling) but only 3% of blacks attend


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