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U.S. History Chapter 12
Aspects of city life:
- Landscape
- Skyscrapers developed
- Started with the invention of the safety elevator in the 1880's
- Steel used for framework
- Solved space problems
- City parks developed for recreation
- Early San Francisco - Library of Congress
- April 18, 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Damage
- Education
- By 1900 elementary education was compulsory in most states and 72% of all school age children were in school, mostly in cities
- High school attendance was not compulsory, but by 1910 most white males went to high school, even though they did not graduate
- Information
- Public libraries
- Advertising
- Books and magazines
- Big city newspapers
- Yellow Journalism
- Joseph Pulitzer tried to arouse readers and increase circulation with controversial stories about city life
- William Randolph Hearst competed with Pulitzer in the 1890's in New York
- Each paper tried to outdo the other with the climax coming in 1898 when both papers helped prod the U.S. into war with Spain
- Economy
- Leisure
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