Monday: work day
Tuesday:
Chapter 7:
7.3-
Key questions:
- what was the political machine and what did they do for a city
- explain Boss T weed and the Tweed Ring
What caused all the corruption in government
- what laws came about to reform the government
Gilded Age: 1870-1900
- gilded- to be covered with gold
Political Machine:
- A political organization, usually controlled by a single 'boss', that controlled people's votes and had administrative control of a city, county, or state
- these organizations provided social service and jobs to people (recent immigrants) in exchange for votes
- very corrupt
- came about due to the rapid increase of population in cities and poor government in the 1800's
- died out in the early 1900's
- There was a lot of corruption in government
- Kickback system
- granting favors to big business
- spoils system/patronage
- political boss, hired/fired police
Boss William Marcy Tweet
- was the boss of the democratic political machine in new York city
- the building Tweet worked in was Tammany Hall
Reforming Government:
- Pendleton Civil service act-1883
Good president also brought change
- president grants- president Wilson
- 1869-1921
Reform presidents
Status Quo Presidents
Ulysses s. grants- 1869-1877, status quo republican
Wednesday:
McKinley's Assassination
- Assassin was Leon Czologosz, an anarchist
- Buffalo, new York at the world's fair
- September 6, 1901
- 8 days, McKinley died from infection
Teddy Roosevelt-1901-1909
- reformer republican
William Howard Taft-1909-1913
- status Quo republican
Chapter 8:
- advances and Technology- skyscrapers(flatiron building 1902)- Electric streetcars- subways-1904- automatic dishwasher-1899- airplane-1903-camera-1888-toilet paper-1857-radio-1895
- Expanding public Education- before 1800, school was for wealthy, most states had public schools by 1865
Thursday:
- Why did the lecture become a common strategy for teachers?
- How is our school system set up like a factory during the industrial revolution?
- schools are like an assembly line, bell, classes, units
- American American were segregated in schools
- immigrants were encouraged to go to school
- 1880-1920, college enrollment quadrupled
- high school diploma and entrance exams were used in admittance purpose
Segregation:
- separation
- literacy test- in order to vote you had to read and write, Poll tax- pay money to vote, Lynching and violence
- this ind of prevented some poor white people to vote so they came up with the grandfather clause(1-1-1867)
- 1896- Plessy vs Ferguson: separate but equal/ that didn't happen though, separate but not equal
- specific separation state laws- Jim Crow Laws
Friday:
entertainment- circus, zoos, minstrel shows
parks-central park:
basketball
baseball= invented by Abner Doubleday in 1839
football- 1800
NFL- 1920
Golfer- John McDemott
Paddy Ryan- boxing
Jack John- African american heavy weight champion in 1908
The first film- the great train robbery in 1903
Comments
Well done!!