LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20th CENTURY
A RESEARCH POWERPOINT PROJECT
Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4
CHAPTER 8

PROJECT DIRECTIONS: Choose a partner and pick one of the subtopics listed below.  Subtopics
are represented by an asterisk (*).  Create a three to four slide PowerPoint presentation that highlights the most important parts of your subtopic found in your book.  Expand on book highlights with visuals and other research found via the Internet. Create two to three questions (to be located on the last slide of your presentation) that address your subtopic.  
PROJECT TOPICS: 
          Science and Urban Life
            *Technology and City Life: address Skyscrapers and Electric Transit
            *Technology and City Life: address Engineering, Urban Planning and City Planning
            
            *New Technologies: address the printing revolution and airplanes
            *New Technologies: address the photography explosion

          Expanding Public Education
             *Expanding Public Education: address schools for children and the growth of high schools
             *Expanding Public Education: address racial discrimination and education for immigrants

             *Expanding Higher Education: address changes in the university and higher education for African  
               Americans

           Segregation and Discrimination
              *African Americans Fight Legal Discrimination: address voting restrictions, the Jim Crow Laws and
                Plessy v. Ferguson

              *Turn-of-the-Century Race Relations: address turn of the century race relations, violence and
                discrimination in the North

               *Discrimination in the West: address Mexican Workers and the exclusion of the Chinese

            The Dawn of Mass Culture
                *American Leisure: address amusement parks, bicycling and tennis
                *American Leisure: address spectator sports and baseball

                 *The Spread of Mass Culture: address mass circulation papers and promoting
                   fine arts
                 *The Spread of Mass Culture: address popular fiction

                 *New Ways to Sell Goods: address urban shopping, the Department Store and the
                   Chain Store
                 *New Ways to Sell Goods: address Advertising and Catalogs and RFD