US1 Chapter 16 Sections 1,2 & 3

Louis Sullivan

United States architect known for his steel framed skyscrapers and for coining the phrase 'form follows function' (1856-1924)

Daniel Burnham

Architect who designed The Flat Iron Building in NYC

Frederick Law Olmsted

Designer of New York City's Central Park, who wanted cities that exposed people to the beauties of nature. One of his projects, the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893, gave a rise to the influential "City Beautiful" movement

Orville and Wilbur Wright

These brothers were bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio who built and flew the first plane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903.

George Eastman

1888 He invented the Kodak camera. Made it easier to take photographs. This would change society's course.

Booker T. Washington

African American progressive who supported segregation and demanded that African Americans better themselves individually to achieve equality.

Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute

Aimed to equip african americans with teaching diplomas and useful skills in agriculture, domestic, or mechanical work.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Fought for African American rights. Helped to found Niagra Movement in 1905 to fight for and establish equal rights. This movement later led to the establishment of the NAACP

Niagara Movement

Insisted that blacks should seek a liberal arts education so that the African American community would have well-educated leaders

Ida B. Wells

African American journalist. published statistics about lynching, urged African Americans to protest by refusing to ride streetcards or shop in white owned stores

poll tax

A tax of a fixed amount per person and payable as a requirement for the right to vote

grandfather clause

A clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867.

segregation

Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences

Jim Crow Laws

Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites

Plessy v. Fergusen

Upheld the constitutionality of state laws allowing segregation under the doctrine of "separate but equal".

debt peonage

A system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a debt to the employer