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Education People viewed public schools as training grounds for employment and citizenship Most states established schooling by the civil war.Rarely anybody went to high school. Laws passed to make students go to school. Mostly memorization Physical punishments. Kindergartner was added to created childcare for employed mothers. schools went to 200-3000. Male students were prepared for the industries and women are for the offices, 62% white attended school and 34% colored students. Immigrants to America were encouraged to attend school. Adults attended night school to learn English only about 2.3 percent of Americans attended collage or universities. Importance Reforms in public education led to the rise in national literacy. African Americans enjoyed political ans social rights. Only people that could read were able to vote. They could choose who they wanted to vote. 1870 1880 southern states passed radical laws. Supreme court said it was legal to separate them. Legalized for almost 60 years. Established the doctrine separate but equal. Blacks who did not cooperate with these rules were lynched. Black could not shake hands with whites. Racism was across the entire world. Many native backgrounds in the west. In 1880 more than 100000 Chainise lived in America. Whites excluded Chainse to go into schools. Jim Crow fought for equality for people. Created the circus Saved money for animals In 1891 he died. Baseball was one of biggest games in 1800s. First African American baseball team. First movie. Amusement Parks Picnic areas dance halls and few rides, In 1894 opened first amusement park. over 1500 amusement park by 1919. Disneyland was opened in 1955.
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