US2 Chapter 8

Earned a living as railroad workers and agricultural workers in the southwest

Grew in the early 1900s because employers demanded more technical training.

This city's back bay was originally a 450 acre swamp.

Allowed racial segregation in public places

Designed the first skyscraper

A landscape architect that planned urban parks.

Novelist who wrote many American Classic Novels.

Separated the races

Invented the airplane

Made possible by the invention of elevators and steel supports

Newspaper owner who later had a literary award named after him.

He believed that educated blacks should be immediately accepted into mainstream society.

Founded the Tuskegee Institute. Believed racism would end if blacks proved their economic value

Opened the first department store.

Two things that limited black influence in the South

Inventor of roll-film camera

The first was Woolworths

Architect that planned Chicago's lakefront

First American city to electrify its urban transit.

Published sensational stories in his newspapers.

You could only vote if your father or grandfather could vote before Jan 1, 1867.

Subways, El Trains, and trolleys

Prevented the greatest number of children from attending public high school.

Connected Manhattan and Brooklyn in 1883.

Became more popular by using roll film instead of glass plates.

Tried to end the lynching of African Americans through journalism.

This was an amusement park on Coney Island

First successful flight took place in: