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HAPTER 16
CHAPTER ASSESSMENT
TERMS & NAMES
For each term or name, write a sentence explaining its
connection to late 19th-century American life.
1. Louis Sullivan 6. Ida B. Wells
2. Orville and Wilbur Wright 7. Jim Crow laws
3. Booker T. Washington 8. Plessy v. Ferguson
4. W. E. B. Du Bois 9. debt peonage
5. Niagara Movement 10. rural free deliver y
MAIN IDEAS
Use your notes and the information in the chapter to
answer the following questions.
Science and Urban Life (pages 482–487)
1. How did new technology promote urban growth
around the turn of the century?
2. In what ways did methods of communication improve
in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
Expanding Public Education
(pages 488–491)
3. How did late 19th century public schools change?
4. Why did some immigrants oppose sending their
children to public schools?
Segregation and Discrimination
(pages 492–495)
5. In what ways was racial discrimination reinforced by
the federal government’s actions and policies?
6. How did Mexicans help make the Southwest
prosperous in the late 19th century?
Dawn of Mass Culture (pages 498–503)
7. What leisure activities flourished at the turn of the
20th century?
8. What innovations in retail methods changed the way
Americans shopped during this time period?
CRITICAL THINKING
1. USING YOUR NOTES Create a table similar to the one
shown, listing at least six important trends at the turn
of the century, along with a major impact of each.
2. DRAWING CONCLUSIONS How had changes in
technology affected urban life by the turn of the
20th century?
3. INTERPRETING GRAPHS Look at the graph of
Expanding Education/Increasing Literacy on page 489.
Which year reported the greatest gain in the
literacy rate? What do you think were the implications
on society of a more literate population?
Trend Impact
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LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
VISUAL SUMMARY
A
MERICAN
L
IFE
A
ROUND
1900
DAWN OF
MASS CULTURE
Rapid growth and technological
improvements make daily life
and work easier—providing
leisure time and extra income
for consumer goods.
SCIENCE AND
URBAN LIFE
Improvements in
transportation and
communications transform
growing cities.
EXPANDING
PUBLIC EDUCATION
Millions of immigrants are
assimilated into the growing
public school system.
SEGREGATION AND
DISCRIMINATION
African Americans and
other minorities continue to
confront legal and social
discrimination.
