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Life at the Turn of the 20th Century
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INNOVATIONS
“A new thing under the sun…”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
• The Skyscraper – considered one of America’s
greatest contributions to the world.
• Able to build taller buildings because of:
– Steel & Elevators
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INNOVATIONS
• The Wainwright Building
• Louis Sullivan
• 1890-1891
• St. Louis, Missouri
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INNOVATIONS
• The Flatiron Building
• Daniel Burnham
• 1902
• New York City
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INNOVATIONS
• How did skyscrapers help to
alleviate some of the issues cities
faced during the Gilded Age?
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INNOVATIONS
Electric Transit:
HOW DID ELECTRIC TRANSIT ALLEVIATE
SOME OF THE ISSUES CITIES FACED
DURINGTHE GILDED AGE?
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INNOVATIONS
City and Urban Planning:
• Need for recreational space in cities.
• Frank Law Olmstead – Landscape Architect
– Central Park, New York City
– Also planned landscapes and parks for
Washington D.C., Boston, and St. Louis
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INNOVATIONS
City and Urban Planning:
• Steel suspension bridges helped to connect
cities – recreational usage
BROOKLYN BRIDGE
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INNOVATIONS
• How did city and urban planning help to
alleviate the issues that cities faced
during the Gilded Age?
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INNOVATIONS
Revolution in printing:
• More durable paper created from wood pulp
– Could withstand new, high-speed, electrified
presses. Print on both sides continuously.
• Mass circulation of Newspapers - $0.01
• Higher literacy rates – 90% by 1890
• Rise in popular fiction �Samuel Clemens
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INNOVATIONS
• Why do you think books such as these would
appeal to people during this time?
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INNOVATIONS
AMUSEMENT PARKS:
1893
1884
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INNOVATIONS
AIRPLANE:
• Orville and Wilbur Wright
• First Successful Flight: Dec. 17, 1903
• Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
• Covered 120 ft. – lasted 12 sec.
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INNOVATIONSPersonal Photography:
• Prior to 1880s = heavy equipment,
professional activity
• 1888: George Eastman � Kodak Camera
• Small, easy to use. Photos for all!
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LEISURE
• Spectator Sports � Baseball
– First World Series: 1903 � Pilgrims vs. Pirates
• Promotion of Fine Arts � Realism
– Ashcan School: Thomas Eakins, Robert Henri
• Urban Shopping:
– Department and Chain Stores
• Rise of Advertising
• Bicycling and Tennis
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EXPANSION OF PUBLIC
EDUCATION
“…provide ladders upon which the aspiring can
climb.” –Andrew Carnegie
• 1871: 7.6 million � 1920: 21.6 million
• 1865-1895: 12-16 weeks annually of school
attendance by students between 8 and 14
• Kindergartens on the rise
• Sought to “Americanize” Immigrants
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EXPANSION OF PUBLIC
EDUCATION
• 1880 – only 2.3% of the American population
attended college
• Professional schools and Medical schools est.
• Entrance Exams � High School Diploma
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EXPANSION OF PUBLIC
EDUCATION
• African American’s Excluded: 1890, 1%
attended high school � 3% by 1890
• Booker T. Washington: racism would end
when blacks proved economic value
– Tuskegee Normal And Industrial Institute
• W.E.B. Du Bois: First African American to
receive doctorate from Harvard
– Niagara Movement: well-educated leaders
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SEGREGATION AND
DISCRIMINATION
• VOTING RESTRICTIONS:
– Poll tax
– Grandfather Clause
– Literacy Tests
• JIM CROW LAWS
• Plessy v. Ferguson – Established the
“Separate but equal” doctrine
• Violence � 1400 lynched 1882-1892
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SEGREGATION AND
DISCRIMINATION
• Other racial groups as well…
• Mexicans:
– Railroad work in the SW � Less $ than others.
– Debt Peonage: bound laborers in slavery in order
to work off a debt to the employer.
• 1911, violation of the 13th amendment
• Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
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