Age reform

The Reform Age from 1860- 1929

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  • Period: to

    Change over time

  • Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

    Inventors Age
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison

    Light bulb
  • Great Migration

    Great Migration

    Especially African Americans and Europeans
  • Pullman strike of 1894

    Pullman strike of 1894

    Strikes for wages, conditions and treatment toward workers
  • New York receiving immigrants

    New York receiving immigrants

    This photo shows newly arrived immigrants at Ellis Island in New York. Inspectors are examining them for contagious health problems, which could require them to be sent back. (credit: NIAID) Corbett 19.2
  • African American Socialist

    African American Socialist

    This photo of the Niagara Movement shows W. E. B. Du Bois seated in the second row, center, in the white hat. The proud and self-confident postures of this group stood in marked contrast to the humility that Booker T. Washington urged of blacks.
    Corbett 21.3 Figure 5
  • Women's rights

    Women's rights

    Nineteenth Amendament for the right to vote
  • Jazz Age

    Jazz Age

    The Dramatic New Age Reform for the young hipster.
  • Flappers look/ Jazz Era

    Flappers look/ Jazz Era

    Liberation for women and the Harlem Reniassance Age