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Chapter 22. The Nation Comes of Age

Chapter 22. The Nation Comes of Age. A Transportation Revolution Begins Americans Improve Cities and Services Americans Seek other Improvements The United States Intervenes in Mexico. Cities grew: Immigrants Farmers moving to cities

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Chapter 22. The Nation Comes of Age

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  1. Chapter 22. The Nation Comes of Age • A Transportation Revolution Begins • Americans Improve Cities and Services • Americans Seek other Improvements • The United States Intervenes in Mexico

  2. Cities grew: Immigrants Farmers moving to cities New farming equipment = less people needed to do work on farms. Cities needed to be appealing to the public: - Parks created - Skyscrapers invented -Sports and entertainment venues. Cities Grow

  3. Transportation Revolution Begins • Automobile • Henry Ford – Model T – “Tin Lizzy” • Urban Sprawl • Free Enterprise – Laissez Faire • Assembly Line – Mass Production • Scientific Management • $ 5 Dollar Day • Airflight • Orville & Wilbur Wright

  4. Model T Automobile Henry FordI want to pay my workers so that they can afford my product!

  5. “Model T” Prices & Sales

  6. Automobiles • Changed life • Paved roads • Traffic lights • Travel easier • Led to urban sprawl

  7. Vocabulary Terms • Urban sprawl- The unplanned & uncontrolled spreading of cities into surrounding regions. • Mass production- producing a large amount of goods in a short amount of time. • Businesses grew b/c of mass production

  8. The Reorganization of Work Frederick W. Taylor The Principles of Scientific Management (1911)

  9. The Reorganization of Work The Assembly Line

  10. Who invented the airplane? • Orville & Wilbur Wright.

  11. Americans Improve Cities and Services • Skyscrapers • Louis Sullivan • Electric Transit • Urban Planning • Fredrick Law Olmsted • Central Park • Revolution in Printing • Mass Circulation • Web-Perfecting press • Linotype machine

  12. Who Invented the Skyscraper? -Louis Sullivan

  13. Cities Improve Continued • Photography • George Eastman • Kodak Camera • Urban Shopping • Department Stores • Marshall Field • F.W. Woolworth • Cleveland, Ohio 1st Shopping Center

  14. Cities Improvements Continued • Dining Out • Delmonico’s • Settlement Houses • Jane Addams • Advertising • Mail order catalogs • Sears & Roebuck Co. • Montgomery Ward • Rural Free Delivery (RFD)

  15. Americans Seek other Improvements • Expanding Public Education • Compulsory Education • McGuffey Readers • Growth of High School • Racial Discrimination - Plessy v. Ferguson • Booker T. Washington • George Washington Carver • W.E.B. DuBois • Education for Immigrants • Higher Education

  16. Booker T. Washington • Definition- He opened his own school, the Tuskegee Institute. • Significance- He believed that racism would end once African Americans learned labor skills and could give to the economy.

  17. W.E.B. DuBois • Definition- The 1st African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard. • Significance- He believed that blacks should seek an education so that there would be well-educated black leaders.

  18. Improvements Continued • Education Influences Culture • Popular Fiction – Mark Twain • Newspapers – Hearst & Pulitzer • African-Americans fight Discrimination • Voting Restrictions • Literacy Tests • Poll Tax • Grandfather Clause • Jim Crow Laws

  19. Grandfather clause • African Americans could not vote if their grandfather did not vote before 1867. • The problem: -All African Americans could not vote in 1867.

  20. Poll Taxes • Money that African Americans needed to pay in order to vote. • The problem: • They would be charged more than they could afford.

  21. Improvements Continued • Leisure Activities • Baseball • Boxing • Amusement Parks • Bicycling • Entertainment • Vaudeville • Ragtime • Silver Screen • Circus

  22. U.S. Intervenes in Mexico • Mexicans Revolt • Porfirio Diaz • Francisco Madero • Victoriano Huerta • Wilson adopts a waiting policy • Spread Democracy • Pancho Villa • John J. “Black Jack” Pershing • Advent of World War I

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