American Studies 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Soft Drink, Ferris Wheel, Social Darwinism

• School: Western University
• Department: American Studies
• Course: American Studies 1020
• Professor: Tom Cull

Document Summary

Has fulfilled it"s manifest destiny; has become the nation of futurity. In the 19th century, cities began to double/triple in population they now live in urban spaces: the city-scape became the defining feature in american modernism, the post-civil war urbanization and industrialization, created a boom. American urbanization in urban spaces: chicago embodied this change in the nation, it was a little more than this trapping village by the time the fair opened, they boomed and became the second largest city behind. New york: chicago"s home insurance building 1884 considered the first modern skyscraper. By the turn of the century, these new buildings were not only changing the physical of nation, but as well as the psyche new industrial ambition: (ex. ) The white city, didn"t talk about or represent slavery within. There was no place to represent african-americans in the. At the same time, you see the rise of the kkk.