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Chapter 8 S.S. Vocab

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show An architect who built the first skyscrapers.  
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show Designed the 285 ft tower in 1902 called the Flatiron Building.  
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Frederick Law Olmsted   show
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Orville and Wilbur Wright   show
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show Developed a series of more convenient alternatives to the heavy glass plates previously used. Photographers could now could use flexible film, coated with gelatin emulsions and could send their film to a studio to be processed.  
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Booker T. Washington   show
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show Founded in 1881, and led by Booker T. Washington, to equip African Americans with teaching diplomas and useful skills in the trades and agriculture.  
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show Founder of the Niagara movement. Proposed that a group of educated blacks, the most "talented tenth" of the community, attempt to achieve immediate inclusion into mainstream American life.  
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show Founded by W. E. B. Du Bois in 1905 to promote the education of African Americans in the liberal arts.  
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show Moved to Memphis in the 1880s to become a teacher out of slavery. Later became an editor of a local paper. Racial justice was a common topic in her articles. 3 of her African American businessman friends were lynched. Causing her to see more into what lyn  
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show An annual tax that formerly had to be paid in some Southern states by anyone wishing to vote.  
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Grandfather Clause   show
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show The separation of people on the basis of race.  
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Jim Crow Laws   show
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Plessy v. Ferguson   show
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Debt Peonage   show
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show A Hungarian immigrant who had bought the New York World in 1883. His paper emphasized "sin, sex, and sensation" in order to surpass his competitor.  
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William Randolph Hearst   show
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Ashcan School   show
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show A novelist and humorist that inspired a host of other young authors when he declared his independence of "literature and all that bosh." Yet, some of his books have become classics of American literature.  
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Rural Free Delivery (RFD)   show
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