Monday- Work day, start presenting tomorrow
Tuesday- Start presentations
1870's:
Fashion: Women- Ruffled silk dresses, stuck out in the rear- bussles, hand fans. Men- Trousers, suits. Children dressed like their parents, but in miniature
Music- folk songs, gospel music, African American spirituals, political protest songs, Broadway musicals
Moving Pictures (Movies)- kind of like flipbooks
Famous people- President Ulysses S. Grant, Cornelius Vanderbilt
Sports- Major League Baseball started- much cheaper than today, Softball- female version of baseball
Inventions- metal windmill- helped power farmers, barbed wire- keep people from trespassing, earmuffs, first practical telephone
Fads- bicycles- one big wheel in front, small wheel in back, men's facial hair, telephone- only wealthy could own them
World Fairs- 14 World Fairs, only one in US- 1876, Philadelphia- 100th anniversary of Declaration of Independence
Presidential elections- 1872 Between Ulysses S. Grant and Horace Greeley- Grant won popular votes, Greeley died
1876- one of most controversial election in US History- Tiden won popular vote, but Hayes won in the end.
Equality and Rights: 1870- 15th Amendment- African Americans right to vote, Segregation
Wednesday- continue presentations- until the clock attacked
1880's:
Music- opera, classical, gospel and folk, musical theater, go to shows, phonograph
Movies- Louis Aime Augistin La Prince, basic, everyday motions, series of pictures taken very fast and played
Famous People: Ulysses S. Grant, John Pennberton- coca-cola, Thomas Edison-inventor John D. Rockefeller- standard oil, Billy the Kid- most wanted criminal, Wyatt Earp- sheriff, O.K. Corral- Carnegie, steel
Minority's rights- African American business- Civil Rights Act declared unconstitutional, lots of segregation
World Fairs- 7 in the US- showed unique innovation
Presidents
Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Aurthur
Costs: much cheaper
Inventions: 1880- Toilet paper, 1881- Metal Detector, Roll Film, Player Piano, 1884- Cash Register, Fountain Pen, Machine Gun, 1885- Automobile, 1886- Motor Vehicle, Coca Cola, 1887- Radar, 1888- AC Motor, 1889- cordite
Vehicles- only go about 20 mph, some used gas or oil, most were electric, Thomas Parker- electric car
Thursday: Continue Presentations
Continue 1880's:
Fads- Roller skating- strapped to bottom of shoe, bicycles
Sports- sports started booming- tennis, horse races, rowing competitions, rugby, baseball, boxing, cricket
Clothing/Fashion: Women wore hair in buns, started wearing boots more often- people dressed up every day, vests, dresses
Foods- Veil Cutlet- German, donuts, pig's heads.
1890's:
Music- 1896- Coon Music- originated in South, very popular, 1896- Ragtime- sort of like Jazz
Movies- The Haunted Castle- blended horror and comedy, Cendrillon (Cinderella)- 1899
Sports- Baseball was very popular- basketball was just coming out, rugby was also very popular, when football came around, rugby became less popular
Fashion- Women's- big, puffy sleeves, big hats, hourglass figures- corsets
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