World's Columbian Exposition

Milton Hershey changed the world in so many ways. He made the world’s most popular chocolate company, gave orphans free education in the city he built, and became famous around the world. Milton Hershey first started having interest in chocolate making when he saw the German chocolate machinery that was in the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Soon after that he made his own candy business. This candy store was particular for caramels. The company was very successful. Milton Hershey was now…

On July 16, 1862 Elizabeth and James Wells gave birth to Ida B. Wells in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She was their first child out of seven who was born into slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation set her and her family free, however, they still faced racial prejudice and discrimination laws. Her father, James, was active in the Republican Party, especially the Freedman's Aid Society, which soon created Shaw University. Shaw University was established in 1866 and was a college for slaves that…

Chicago was approved, many architects stayed loyal to their home cities, refusing to work on the project. Architects like John Root and Frederick Olmsted overcame their sectionalism and worked together as Americans on the World Fair’s team. The World’s Fair gave Chicago the opportunity to show the world it was not just a giant slaughterhouse, but in fact a thriving city with its’ own unique culture.…

The two most important themes in Chapter 12 for a reader to understand the concept of “The New Chicago” are the correlating themes of feminist power and ambition that stemmed from the new Chicago women. Throughout the chapter a large part is focused on the power of women. In chapter 12 I really began noticing the introduction of women in the book. And as much as I feel that the author downplayed the tremendous acts done by women, I still believe it is an important theme to acknowledge. Women…

“Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine”- Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla was born on July 10th 1856, in what is now Croatia. His father was an Orthodox priest. His mother, had a knack for home craft tools and machinery. Tesla was the fourth of five children. He was such a genius that he could do integral calculus in his head and graduated with a four-year term in three years,…

argument being asserted, that the construction of the World's Fair distracted the residents of Chicago from dealing with the many common problems taking place at that time, More specifically, the traumatic increase in death rates as well as the calamitous economic downturn affecting many. The argument that the World's Fair distracted…

Chicago, the established ideas of functionalism and historicism manifested themselves in the conflicting theories of organicism and classicism. Although there were prominent classical resurgences during the City Beautiful movement and the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, these revivals did not align with what the Prairie and Chicago school had initiated – to conceive a modern, commercial metropolis.1 Because of the automation of the construction industry, these historical movements held…

from again. When people would ask about her, he would say that she left for California to be with close relatives. The hotel was 162ft long and 50ft wide. The address was 601-603 West 3rd Street and was called the World's Fair Hotel which opened as a hostelry for World's Columbian Exposition. The ground floor was a drugstore and had various shops. The upper two floors…

Dara Alberti Mr. Binef U.S. History 3 April 2015 Historical Origins of Amusement Parks and Mass Recreation. Amusement parks or mass recreations are places where groups of attractions, fun rides, games and shows are located for the enjoyment of families and friends. "The settlers who planted the first English colonies in America had the same instinctive drive for play that is the common heritage of all mankind" (Dulles 3). The importance of these parks has been forgotten throughout time because…

He intended to modernize the manufacturing of chocolate. The next year, using the very same machinery he'd seen at the exposition, Milton started the Hershey Chocolate Co. and began producing more than 114 different types of chocolate candies. His famous milk chocolate was new to the United States so it was so successful that Hershey sold Lancaster Caramel Co. for $1 million…