Turn of the 20th Century (SS5H1)

Atlanta Journal Constitution, "The Flyer" plane of the Wright Brothers officially presented to the public at the Smithsonian, Washington, D.C., December 17, 1948, Georgia State University Special Collections

SS5H1 Describe how life changed in America at the turn of the century.

1. Describe the role of the cattle trails in the late 19th century; include the Black Cowboys of Texas, the Great Western Cattle Trail, and the Chisholm Trail.

2. Describe the impact on American life of the Wright brothers (flight), George Washington Carver (science), Alexander Graham Bell (communication), and Thomas Edison (electricity).

3. Explain how William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt expanded America’s role in the world; include the Spanish-American War and the building of the Panama Canal.

4. Describe the reasons people immigrated to the United States, from where they emigrated, and where they settled.

Suggested Collections

• Ad Hoc Collection (Georgia Archives)

• Auburn Avenue Research Library Historic African American Education Collections (Auburn Avenue Research Library)

• Atlanta History Photograph Collection (Atlanta History Center)

• Francis E. Price Photograph Collection, 1906-1928, undated (Atlanta History Center)

• Joseph Rucker and Clarinda Pendleton Lamar papers (Hargrett Library)

• Protropian Society Minute Book (Piedmont College)

• Twentieth Century Educational Exhibit (Georgia Historical Society)

• Vanishing Georgia (Georgia Archives)

Suggested Searches (DLG)

• Wright Brothers

• George Washington Carver

• Thomas Edison

• William McKinley

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Spanish-American War, 1898

• Panama Canal

• America--Emigration and immigration

Suggested Searches (DPLA)

• Black Cowboys of Texas

• Texas Cattle Trail

• Chisholm Trail

• Orville Wright

• Wilbur Wright

• George Washington Carver

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• William McKinley

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Spanish-American War, 1898

• Panama Canal

• America--Emigration and immigration

Historic Georgia Newspapers

• "War with Spanish" OR "War with Spain" (Spanish-American War) 

• Alexander Graham Bell 

• Angel Island

• Ellis Island

• Georgia Newspapers (1885-1915)

• Immigration or Emigration

• Panama Canal

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Thomas Edison

• Wright Brothers

Chronicling America Newspapers

• Topics in Chronicling America - Ellis Island

• Topics in Chronicling America - Horseless Carriages and Ford’s Model T

• Topics in Chronicling America - Major Events of the Spanish American War

• Topics in Chronicling America - New Century Celebrations, 1900-1901

• Topics in Chronicling America - Presidential Administrations: McKinley

• Topics in Chronicling America - Presidential Administrations: Theodore Roosevelt

• Topics in Chronicling America - Roosevelt’s Rough Riders

• Topics in Chronicling America - Spanish American War

• Topics in Chronicling America - Teddy Bear

• Topics in Chronicling America - The McKinley Assassination

• Topics in Chronicling America - The Panama Canal

• Topics in Chronicling America - The Wright Brothers

• Topics in Chronicling America - Theodore Roosevelt’s “Great White Fleet”

• Topics in Chronicling America - Theodore Roosevelt’s Africa Expedition

Suggested DPLA Primary Resource Sets and Exhibits

• American Aviatrixes: Women with Wings

• American Empire

• American Imperialism: The Spanish American War

• Beginnings of the American Red Cross

• Blackface Minstrelsy in Modern America

• Children in Progressive-Era America

• Early Chinese Immigration to the US

• Electrifying America

• Environmental Preservation in the Progressive Era

• Exodusters: African American Migration to the Great Plains

• Fake News in the 1890s: Yellow Journalism

• The Homestead Acts

• The Homestead Strike

• Ida B. Wells and Anti-Lynching Activism

• Immigration and Americanization, 1880-1930

• Immigration Through Angel Island

• The Invention of the Telephone

• The Panama Canal

• Patronage and Populism: The Politics of the Gilded Age

• The Populist Movement

• Reservations, Resistance, and the Indian Reorganization Act, 1900-1940

• Second Ku Klux Klan and The Birth of a Nation

• Settlement Houses in the Progressive Era

• This Land is Your Land: Parks and Public Spaces

• Women and the Temperance Movement

NGE Articles

• Airplane, 1904

• Atlanta Compromise Speech

• Ben Epps (1888-1937)

• Canals

• Hoke Smith (1855-1931)

• Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927)

• Lynching

• Populist Party

• Progressive Era

• Spanish-American War in Georgia

• Temperance Movement

Georgia Public Broadcasting Resources (and PBS)

• Alexander Graham Bell: Scientist, Inventor, and Teacher

• American 1900

• American Experience: Panama Canal

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Crucible of Empire: The Spanish American War

• Did you know? TR Trivia

• Edison

• Edison: Boyhood and Teen Years

• George Washington Carver | Scientist, Inventor, and Teacher Video

• Into the Amazon

• Kites to Flight: Inventing with the Wright Brothers

• Model of Telephone Invented by Alexander Graham Bell

• NOVA: Wright Brothers’ Flying Machine

• Spanish-American War

• Texas Ranch House: Black Cowboys

• The Roswell Roots of Theodore Roosevelt

• Theodore Roosevelt and the Environment

• Theodore Roosevelt and the Panama Canal

• Thomas Edison: Inventor and Entrepreneur

• TR’s Early Life

Georgia Historical Society Resources

• 20th Century Technological Advances

• Progressive Encounters

• Struggles of the Late Nineteenth Century

Posters and Postcards

• SS5H1 poster

• SS5H1 postcard