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37 Cards in this Set
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wright brothers
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developed first airplane
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WEB Du Bois
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demanded immediate equality for blacks
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Joseph Pulitzer
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pioneered several newspaper innovations
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Louis Sullivan
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designed nation's first skyscraper
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George Eastman
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introduced first mass produced camera
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Frederick Law Olmstead
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originated planned urban parks
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Mark Twain
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american novelist and humorist
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Ida B Wells
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fought to end lynching
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Joseph Pulitzer
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pioneered several newspaper innovations
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Louis Sullivan
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designed nation's first skyscraper
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George Eastman
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introduced first mass produced camera
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Frederick Law Olmstead
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originated planned urban parks
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Mark Twain
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american novelist and humorist
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Ida B Wells
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fought to end lynching
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Booker T Washington
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encourage af am to fght racism by proving their economic value to society
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Niagara Movement
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an effort to encourage blacks to seek a liberal arts education in order to provide the af am community with well educated leaders
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poll tax
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an annual tax that had to be paid in order to vote, was an effort to discourage af am from voting
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William Randolph Heart
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owner of the NY Morning Journal
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Rural Free Delivery
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system that brought packages directly to every home- introduced by the Post Office in 1896
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4/10
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by the turn of the twentieth century about __ out of __ americans made their homes in cities
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"Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir man's blood"
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motto of Daniel Burham
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kitty hawk, NC
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where the 1st successful flight took place
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emerald necklace
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the city of Boston's park system
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photojournalism
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the development of an easy to use camera helped to develop the field of ____
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blacks were often too poor to pay the poll tax
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effect of poll tax
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legal basis for segregation- seperate white and blacks in public/private facilities
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effect of Jim crow laws
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separate but equal- sup ct ruled that seg. in public accommodations was legal and didn't violate the 14th amen.
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effect of plessy v ferguson
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racial discrimination
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____ existed in the N as well as the S, as many northern cities were segregated
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mexicans
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largest ethnic group of RR workers in SW
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13th amen.
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in 1911, the sup ct declared the system of debt peonage a violation of the ____
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grandfather clause
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intended to allow poor whites to circumvent the poll tax
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baseball
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sport that mark twin said was the symbol of the booming nineteenth century
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dime novels
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inexpensive books that glorified adventures of the west
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marshall field
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originated department store
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10 million
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by 1910, the # of americans who shopped by mail had reached ____
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ashcan school of american art
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stressed scenes of nature
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bicycling
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susan b. anthony said this activity "had done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world"
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