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Whites made dumb rules to prevent blacks from voting.
Blacks had to follow an etiquette and if they didn't they were lynched.
xenophobia- fear of foreigners, especially Chinese.
1845 Alexander Cartwright wrote the first rules for baseball.
zoopraxiscope was the first machine that played movies.
the first Ferris wheel was in 1893.
Disney land was created in 1956.
Changes in Education. People viewed public schools as training ground for jobs and citizenship. Best way to assimilate the immigrants coming to America. Public schools were necessary for a stable and prosperous nation. Very few went on to High School and most school age children did not receive formal schooling. They mostly dropped out within 4 years. Expanding education laws were passed that required kids 8 to 14 to go to school. There were strict rules on physical education and there were reading, writing and math classes at first. For young children there were kindergarten for the kids of employed mothers. It started to add to public school systems later on thanks to Torrey Harris. In high school they worked on science, civics, and social studies. Male jobs were usually prepared for during the time of high school. Less black kids than white kids attended school because of racial problems until the 1940's colored kids didn't attend school. Immigrants were encouraged to attend school because they learned English and helped them qualify for American citizenship. Only 2.3% of Americans attended college. Industrial development changed the educational needs. Professional law and medicine schools were established.
Reconstruction era. For a short period of time during and after it, African Americans enjoyed political and social rights. They faced hostile and violent opposition from the whites. Only people who could read could vote and had to pass a literacy tests, and Africans were given harder questions and officials could pass or fail anyone they wish. Most couldn't afford the poll tax. But then the grandfather clause let them vote if they could prove that they had a white male ancestor who voted before 1870. Jim Crow laws were passed and put into effect. Homer Plessy took a seat in a white seat in a train car and refused to move and he was arrested and appealed claiming he has been denied equal protection under the law because his mixed descent was entitled to every recognition of the white race. They ended up saying that the separation of races was legal, the supreme court did. They established "separate but not equal". Legalized segregation for almost 60 years. African Americans were also subject to informal rules and customs. Usually humiliated and belittled black people. Those who did not cooperate were killed, they were usually hung. They had to work for no pay because the people said they owed them something when they really didn't.
In 1880 more than 100,000 Chinese lived in America and Americans were worried that they would take our jobs so we pushed them into segregated neighborhoods and schools. Strong opposition to Chinese immigrants developed all over the country. Xneophiba was the word for this, the fear of foreign people.
Jim Crow laws and racial discrimination lead to the fight for equality for people of all backgrounds in America.
Entertainment. Barnum and Bailey's Circus. He said money for animals from the income from people coming in the circus and they started the circus as friends. They started traveling around after they saved up money and they got their first elephant and named it Jumbo. Sports. Baseball was the biggest sport and there was also ice hockey. In 1876 the first major league was formed. In 1884, the first African American was on a major league team. They didn't use gloves then. The first movie. First machine was the Wheel of Life. Louis Lumiere is said to have invented the first motion picture camera in 1895. The first movie projected and watched by playing audience was "The horse in motion!" There were also Amusement Parks and they started in Medieval Europe. In 1894, Paul Boynton Chutes open the first Amusement Park. Over 1,500 Amusement Parks were opened in America by 1919. After WW2 was over Amusement Parks became big again to people.
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