Monday (11/21/16)
Segregation- (Blacks and Whites)
Literacy Test- A test if you could speak designed to eliminate African Americans from voting and poor whites from voting.
Poll Tax- In order to vote they had to pay a tax- Designed to keep blacks from voting.
Grandfather Clause (1-1-1867)- If you grandfather could vote before that date you could vote. We don't want black people to vote but we want poor white people to vote.
Jim Crow Laws-
Plessy V Ferguson-1896
-Separated but equal. Separated and unequal in reality.
Lynching and Violence.
Whites and blacks where separated especially in the South.
Tuskegee Airmen-WWII black and white units. Bombing campaigns over Italy.
1896-1953 segregation ended
Entertainment in the late 1800's and early 1900's. 1898 poster.
Coney Island 1903 - Amusement Parks- Arcades and pinball
Circus
Vaudeville Shows- Ventriloquist- Comedy, Variety shows, singing, dancing
Died out- Post WWII
Parks- Central Park in NYC-1857- Needs to be more green in cities so they made parks.
Basketball- Dr.James Naismith. First Public game was in 1892.
Baseball- invented by Abner Doubleday in 1839. Major League baseball became a big in the late 1800's/ Honus Wagner
Football- Late 1800's college football became popular. NFL would not start until the 1920's.
Tennis, Golf, Boxing, Biking-1885
John McDermott- Picture of John in 1922. First US golfer.
Paddy Ryan- Bare knuckle champion.
Gentlemen Jim- Corbett 1892-1897- Heavyweight Champ
Jack Johnson- First black. Heavyweight Champion 1908-1915
Music and Dancing - Ragtime, Cakewalk, Tap dancing,
Movies- The great Train Robbery- 1903 They enjoyed the movies and the air conditioning.
World fairs- Focused on showcasing that latest and greatest in inventions and technology. Ferris Wheel- 1893
Tuesday (11/22/16)- Chapter 9- The Progressive Reform Era (1890-1920)
Ben-fit women, Democracy, Factory Workers
Protecting Social Welfare
- Set up settlement houses for poor.
- Opened libraries.
- Sponsored education classes.
- Opened swimming pools.
- Set up soup kitchens.
- Slum brigades- teach immigrants.
Promoting Moral Improvement
- Prohibition- Alcohol wasn't allowed to be made, served, but could be drank.
- Carrie Nation- She would go around into different bars with her hatchet and would destroy battles of alcohol.
- why ban alcohol?- Abusive towards them and their children and husbands may cheat on them and factory's wanted to get rid of it because people came to work drunk. Didn't succeed.
- Women's Suffrage
Cartoon- Pressure to husbands and boyfriends to make them stop drinking.
Wednesday- no school
Creating Economic Reform
- Sherman Anti Trust Act- Brake up monopoly's
- There was a major unbalance in income and how people lived
- Many turned to "socialism"
- Regulation to railroads
- Regulation of business
- Child labor law
- Women and men working hours reduced
- Workmen's Compensation- Paid leave when you are hurt on the job
Muckrakers
- Muckrakers played a big hole in bringing reform
- Investigative Journalist
- Exposed the problems of the society
- Upton Sinclair- The Jungle- meatpacking- laying on the floor, rats, and selling it
- Ida Tarbell- Exposed the ruthless methods of the Standard Oil Company
- Lincoln Steffens- Exposed corruption in government
Reforming Election
- States adopt secret ballot- no can look at your vote
- Direct Primary- Point of the primary season on person from each party
- Initiative- A bill originated by the people rather than lawmakers
- Referendum- When voters accepted or reject the initiative (bill)
- Recall- Enable voters to remove public officials from elected positions
- 17th and 19th amendments - 19 gave women the right to vote.
What did these seven aim at doing?
Women where huge in the progressive era.
Women would have parades
Western States Women Suffrage Before 1920- There were less and they had to help out a lot with farming out West they had to do stuff.
Teddy Roosevelt- Mount Rushmore
Went hunting in Mississippi with some friends and he couldn't find any bear and then some people found a little black bear and he sees it tied to a tree and he said he isn't going out on a hunt and refused to kill him so they named the teddy bear after him.
Square deal- He called his platform a square deal. He wanted to give everyone a fare chance middle and lower class that made america Great Again.
Thursday- no school
Friday- no school
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