Week of November 21st to the 25th

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Monday(November 21st) 

• Segregation 
  • Literacy test(goal was element  Blacks to vote and poor white people) 
  • Poll tax(kept blacks from voting) 
  • Grandfather Clause(1-1-1867) 
    • If your Grandfather could vote before that date then you could vote
  • Jim Crow laws
  • Plessy v Ferguson 1896
    • "Separate but Equal" 
    • separate and unequal in reality 
  • Lynching- and violence 

explain what people did for entertainment in the late 1800's and early 1900's?

• Circus 
• Coney Island(1903 New York City) Amusement Parks 
• Vaudeville show 
• Minstrel shows 
• Parks(Central Park in NYC 1857) 
  • • Basketball 
      • Dr. James Naismith 
      • First public game was in 1892 
    • Baseball 
      • Invented by Abner Doubleday in 1839 
      • Major League baseball became big int he late 1800's 
    • Football 
      • Late 1800's college football became populate
      • NFL would not start until the 1920's 
    • Other Populate sports 
      • Tennis Golf 
      • Boxing 
      • Biking(1885) 
    • Music and Dancing 
      • Ragtime 
      • Cakewalk 
    • Movies 
      • the Great Train Robbery 1903 
  • World Fairs 
    • Focused on showcasing the latest and greatness in inventions and technology 

Tuesday(November 22nd) 

Chapter 9(THE PROGRESSIVE REFORM ERA 1890 - 1920) 

What do the progressives do to benefit.... 

Protecting Social Welfare 

• Set up settlement houses for poor 
• Opened libraries 
• sponsored education classes 
• Opened swimming pools 
• Set up soup kitchens 
• Slum brigades - teach immigrant 

Promoting Moral Improvement 

• Prohibition (outlawed the making and shipping and selling alcohol 
• Carrie Nation 
  • Would go into bars with a knife and slash beer cans 
• Why band alcohol? 
  • Because when men drink they get abuse and did some stuff (Women pushed for this) 
  • Factory workings pushed for it too because they were showing up drunk and just didn't do their job 
• Women's Suffrage 

Creating Economic Reform(Benefit factories workers) 

• Regulation of business(Sherman Act -- break up trust) 
• Child labor laws 
• Women and men working hours reduced 
• Workmen's compensation 

Muckrakers

• Muckrakers played a big role in bringing reform 
• Investigative journalist 
• Exposed the problems of society 
  • Examples 
    • Upton Sinclair --- The Jungle---- meatpacking 
    • Ida Tarbell -- Exposed the ruthless methods of the Standard Oil Company 
    • Lincoln Steffens-- exposed corruption in government 

What did our country do to start becoming demarcated?... 

• Reforming Electrons 
  • states adopt secret ballot 
  • Direct Primary 
  • Initiative - a bills originated by the people rather than lawmakers 
  • Referendum- when voters accept or reject the initiative 
  • Recall - enabled voters to remove public officials from elected positions 
  • 17th and 9th Amendments 

Women were huge in this era 

"Square Deal" Teddy R. Wanted to give everyone a fair deal. 

Wednsday(November 23rd) 

-NO SCHOOL

Thursday(November 24th) 

-NO SCHOOL 

-THANKSGIVING

Friday(November 25th) 

-NO SCHOOL