Days of 11-21 & 11-22

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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