Chapter 22. The Nation Comes of Age

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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

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Cities Grow

• 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.

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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

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Model T Automobile
Henry FordI want to pay my workers so that they
can afford my product!
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Model T Prices Sales
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Automobiles

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

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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

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The Reorganization of Work
Frederick W. Taylor The Principles of Scientific
Management (1911)
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The Reorganization of Work
The Assembly Line
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Who invented the airplane?

• Orville Wilbur Wright.

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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

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Who Invented the Skyscraper?

• -Louis Sullivan

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Cities Improve Continued

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

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Cities Improvements Continued

• Dining Out
• Delmonicos
• Settlement Houses
• Jane Addams
• Advertising
• Mail order catalogs
• Sears Roebuck Co.
• Montgomery Ward
• Rural Free Delivery (RFD)

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Poll Taxes

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

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Improvements Continued

• Leisure Activities
• Baseball
• Boxing
• Amusement Parks
• Bicycling
• Entertainment
• Vaudeville
• Ragtime
• Silver Screen
• Circus

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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