Today we started out listening to some Michael Jackson. Mr. Bruns talked to us about our future assigned blogs. We presented our blogs from like a month ago, and did some family history presentations too.
Airplanes
-Orville and William Wright watched birds to try and figure out how to fly. They built models and tried to fly them. In 1903, a model flew for 12 seconds. Patented it in 1906. Government bought an airplane from them 1909.
Spectator Sports
-Baseball is very similar to an Enlglish game called Rounders. Baseball was believed to be first played in Cooperstown, New York. Jackie Robinson was the first black to play baseball.
Education and Racial Discrimination in the late 1800s
-Most children were either homeschooled or sent to church buildings. Blacks were looked down upon. They were segregated from whites, the had separate facilities, schools, etc. Schools had less supplies, teachers were paid less.
Higher Education For African Americans
-Blacks wanted better education, they were forced to teach themselves.
Elementary School
-Poor kids went to one room schoolhouses, teachers taught older kids first. Had to house teachers. Teachers weren't allowed to get married or have kids. Farm kids usually quit school after eighth grade to go help out on the farm. Taught the three R's. (minimum) Rich kids were sent to Private schools, separated by gender, had three R's plus penmanship, dancing, other languages, and stretching. Weird.
Changes in Universities
-Requirements to get in were so different than it is now. Some only required a diploma, others required you to take a test to get in. First Medical and Law Schools were set up around now. Land Grant Colleges were from farmers. During the 1940's and 50's about 40% of the people completed high school, 10% completed four years of college.
Entertainment
-As more people went to school, standards for culture raised. Newspapers and magazines were introduced. In order to get a bigger audience, they used eye-catching headlines.
Plessy V. Ferguson
-In 1892, a black sat in a whites only car, got in huge trouble. Separate but equal. Not..
Amusement
-Coney Island was an amusement park. Bicycling was originally made for men. In 1885 a new bicycle came out that was more like the ones today, women were now allowed to ride them. Tennis became popular in America.
Skyscrapers
-Became popular when steel came around because it allowed buildings to be taller than they could've been when they were made of iron.
Segregation and Discrimination
-Voting restrictions: from 1867-77, reconstruction act, President Johnson vetoed it because he wanted things to stay the same. Grant became president. 15th Amendment was made: no one could be denied the right to vote because of their race. Blacks had to take a test to be able to vote, (literacy tests) that were harder than the whites' questions. Whites could apply to grandfather clause if they didn't pass test or couldn't pay the tax, but blacks couldn't even apply for that because their ancestors were probably slaves.
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