Domestic life in the early 1900's

1. Expanding Higher Education

1.1. Increased enrollment in colleges in the early 1900's.

1.2. There became more of a push to be educated so that you could have better position and opportunity in the developing country.

2. Segregation & Discrimination

2.1. There literacy were tests that would commonly be more difficult for black's tests.

2.2. Separate but equal public facilities that were in fact not equal.

2.3. Jim Crow Laws

2.4. Racial violence

3. Dawn of Mass Culture

3.1. Leisure activities became more common due to less time working and more money to spend.

3.2. Increase in following and watching sports.

3.3. Development of popular literature.

4. Technology

4.1. Paper Printing-printing becomes much easier and causes the price to drop. Changes cost of daily news papers to drop price to a penny each.

4.2. Airplanes-Idea developed by the Wright Brothers. Transcontinental airmail services developed from this innovation.

4.3. Photography-flexible film developed, many people became interested in it and used it as a hobby or for photo-journalism.

5. City Life

5.1. Skyscrapers-they allowed for infrastructure to be built upwards to accommodate the growing populations.

5.2. Electric Transit- Created mass public transportation the was efficient and spread throughout the city. Helped to create suburbs and expand city.

6. Expanding Public Education

6.1. Schools were thought of as essential to developing children into adults that would one day run society.

6.2. Reading, writing and arithmetic were the basic focus in schools and expanded to science, civics, and social studies later in education.