Chapter 11: A New Century

1. Part 1: Immigration; Transportation; Innovation Chapter 11: A New Century

2. A New Century • Utah is now a state. • The United States has just ended the Spanish –American War • War makes heroes mentality • Glory • Economy in Utah: based on agriculture and mining

3. More Immigration • Immigration continued into the 1900s, mainly to find jobs. • Mostly mining (Utahans were mostly farmers) • 1920:

4. More Immigration (cont.) • Immigrants built churches of all kinds*

5. More Immigration (cont.) • Immigrants built churches of all kinds* Above: Holy Trinity Cathedral (Greek Orthodox) Right: The Congregation Montefiore Jewish Synagogue

6. More Immigration (cont.) • Ku Klux Klan • membership spread into Utah • only white Protestants could join • disliked Jews, Catholics, Blacks, and all new immigrants • not as much violence in Utah as elsewhere in the country

7. Transportation • New forms of transport: • airplanes • passenger trains • electric streetcars • motor cars • 1900: 20 gasoline automobiles in Utah • 1909: over 800 gasoline automobiles in Utah No paved roads and few gas stations for decades.

8. Innovation • Famous firsts in Utah • first transcontinental railroad tracks • Promontory Point • first transcontinental telegraph lines • first transcontinental telephone wires • Wendover • first radio broadcast (1922)* • first electric lights (1880)*

9. Innovation (cont.) • The world is incredibly interconnected today. The telephone put long-distance communications in the hands of an unskilled middle class. The telephone is a key example of how a society can take a new innovation with unperceived use, and transform it into a social unifier. It not only reformed the business industry, it altered the lives of the American public by placing them in easy reach of each other at any moment in time. By far it became “the largest integrated machine in the world.”