10/22 - 10/26

[6jandy]

Monday: No School 

Tuesday: Talk about forum posts, blogs, and expectations for forum posts. 

Segregation

• Slavery/civil war/reconstruction
• Scientific racism (1600 – WWI)
• 13^th/14^th/15^th amendments
• Literacy test
• Poll tax
• Grandfather clause (1-1-1867) (1915) (24^th – 1964)
• Jim Crow laws
  • Jim Crow was a song and dance from 1828 that was done in blackface by white minstrel performer Thomas Dartmouth
• Plessy v Ferguson – 1896
  • “separate but equal”
  • Separate and unequal in reality
• Lynching and violence – KKK
• Brown vs board of education of Topeka, KS

Wednesday: Ill - presented pictures of segregation 

Thursday: 

Entertainment in the late 1800s and early 1900s

P.T. Barnum’s Great traveling museum, menagerie, caravan, and hippodrome – 1871

- Barnum said they “had a show that was truly immense, and combined all the elements of museum, menagerie, variety performance, concert hall, and circus”

- Barnum call it “the Greatest Show on Earth”

- Barnum and Bailey agreed to unite their circus’ in 1881

- the Show was called “P.T. Barnum’s greatest show on earth, and the Great London circus, sanger’s royal British menagerie and the grand international allied shows united”

- The show was eventually shortened to “Barnum and Bailey’s circus”

- The Ringling brothers had a small Midwestern circus but eventually grew and purchased the Barnum and Bailey circus

- Combined the names in 1919

- folded in 2017 -- $$ and animal cruelty issues

Amusement Parks

Coney Island (1903)

Steeplechase – Coney Island, New your (1897-1964)

Dreamland – Coney Island, New York (1904-1911)

Luna Park – Coney Island, New York (1903-1944 1946-2010)

Parks

Central park In NYC – 1857

Basketball

• James Naismith
• First public game in 1892

Baseball

• Invented by Abner Doubleday in 1839
• Major league baseball became big in the late 1800s

Football

• Late 1800s college football became popular
• NFL would not start until the 1920s

Other popular sports

• Tennis
• Golf
• Boxing
• Biking – 1885

World’s fair

• Focused on showcasing the latest and greatest in inventions and technology
• 1853 – New York, 1876 – Philadelphia, 1893 – Chicago (Ferris Wheel), 1901 – Buffalo (McKinley killed), 1904 – St. louis, 1915 – San Francisco

Friday:

Two football teams that still have original names

• Chicago bears
• Arizona cardinals – one of the oldest teams