Skyscrapers are made because instead of expanding on land they would build up. The invention of the elevator helped with the skyscrapers. Newspapers only cost a penny. starting price was 25 dollars with 100 picture film roll. You had to be able to read and right to vote. You had too pass a test to vote too. If you couldn't afford the poll tax. In ten years 1400 blacks died from discrimination. Debt peonage is a system bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a doubt to the employer. Blacks were treated very bad in the late 1800 and early 1900s.
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