Monday-work day for people doing family projects and chapter presentations
Tuesday-continue note taking. (See below)
Wednsday-continue notes
Thursday-continue notes. Test Tuesday.
Friday-continue notes and work on projects (family or chapter 9)
Chapter 7.3 Key Questions
-What was the political machine and what did they do fora city?
-A political organization, usually controlled by a single 'boss' that controlled votes and had administrative control of a city, county, or state
-These organizations provided social services and jobs to people (recent immigrants) in exchange for votes
-Very corrupt
-Came about due to the rapid increase of population in cities and poor government in the 1800s
-Died out in the early 1900s
There was a lot of corruption in gov
-Kickback system
-granting favors to big business
-spoils system/patronage-led to a lot of dishonest people
-political boss
hired/fired police
Boss William Marcy Tweed
-was the boss of the democratic political machine in NYC
-The building Tweed worked in was Tammany Hall
-Explain Boss Tweed and the Tweed Ring
-What caused all the corruption in government?
-What laws came about to reform government?
-Gilded Age
1870's-1900s
Gilded-to be covered with gold
Reforming Government
-Pendleton Civil Service Act 1883
-Required most government jobs to be given through a merit system based on test scores
Good Presidents Also Brought Change
-President Grant-President Wilson
-1869-1921
Presidents that stuck to the Status Quo
Ulysses S Grant 1869-1877
Status Quo-Republican and lead to a lot of problems-spoil systems, reconstruction coming to an end
Rutherford Hayes-1877-81
Reform-Republican
James Garfield 1881
Reform-republican
William McKinley 1897-1901
William Howard Taft
Why did the lecture become a common strategy for teachers?
Some people were illiterate
How is our school system set up like a factory during the industrial revolution?
Bells/assembly line
African American Immigrant EDU
African Americans were segragated in different schools
Immigrants were encouraged to go to school
Most European immigrant families sent their children to the free public schools
Religion in School
Public schools had mandatory readings from the Protestant Bible
Many catholic families were concerned
catholic communities set up schools to give their children a catholic education
Higher Education (College)
From 1880-1920 college enrollments quadrupled
High school diploma and entrance exams were used in admittance purposes
Morrill Act 1862
Segregation
Literacy test
Poll tax
Grandfather clause
If your grandfather voted 1/1/1867 you could vote (loophole to allow poor whites to vote)
Jim Crow laws
Specific laws aimed toward african americans
Plessy v Ferguson-1896
Separate and unequal in reality
Lynching and violence
Minstrel Shows
Comedies of white people painted black to make fun of them
Promoted belief that black people were not smart
Parks/Central Park in NYC- 1857
Used for entertainment
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