Week of Oct 24-28

[1Kara]

Monday: work day

Tuesday: presentations

Group 1:1880's 

1. Music
   1. Days of 49
      1. Famous song about Gold Rush
   2. 1881- Boston Symphony Orchestra is created
   3. If you wanted to hear music you had to hear it live
2. Movies
   1. Buffalo Dance
   2. Blacksmith scenes
      1. Watched people make tools
   3. Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge
3. Sports
   1. Baseball
   2. Football
      1. Had different helmets
4. Fashion
   1. Woman had long dresses
      1. Could weigh up to 20 pounds
   2. Men wore suits and hats
5. Fads
   1. Roller skating
6. World Fairs
   1. 1883- Louisville
   2. 1884- New Orleans
   3. 1889- Buffalo International Industrial Fair
7. Famous People
   1. Billy the Kid
      1. Criminal
      2. Shot by Sheriff Garrett
   2. Mark Twain
      1. Famous for writing books
   3. Buffalo Bill
8. Politics and Presidents
   1. Prohibition starts in Kansas
      1. Women wanted to get husbands out of bars
   2. Wall Street
   3. North/South Dakota and Montana became states
   4. President James Garfield (1880)
      1. Shot by Charles Guiteau after being president for a couple months
   5. Grover Cleveland (1884)
   6. Benjamin Harris (1888)
9. Interesting Facts
   1. Statue of Liberty from France (1885)
   2. First buffet opened (1885)
   3. Dr Pepper created in Waco Texas (1885)
   4. Coca Cola (1886)
   5. Cattle market in South St. Paul
   6. Sold 363 cattle its first day (1887)

Wednesday: presentations

Group 1 continued: 1880's

1. Inventions
   1. Electric flat iron
      1. Henry Seeley (1882)
   2. Electric Fan
      1. Skaats Wheeler (1882)
   3. First dishwasher
      1. Josephine Cochrane (1886)
   4. Coca Cola
      1. John Pemberton (1886)
2. Minorities
   1. White people were very racist
   2. Separate seating
   3. Whites would torture blacks
   4. Reconstruction ended
   5. Eventually blacks could be on Jury
3. Economy
   1. Most jobs about 25 cents an hour
   2. Worked 60 hours a week
   3. Jobs in railroad industry
   4. Southern crops diversify
   5. Investing in stocks is more popular

Group 2: 1890's

1. Fashion
   1. Women
      1. Skirts were becoming less full
      2. Lace, beads and frills
      3. Blouses and skirts became more common
      4. Tight arms and puffy shoulders
      5. Corsets
      6. Gibson Girl
         1. Everyone wanted to be like her
   2. Men
      1. Caps and hats
      2. High button coats
      3. Ascots
   3. Swimwear
      1. Women- skirts and tights
      2. Men- wore pants and shirts
2. Fads
   1. Bicycle Craze
   2. Crazy quilts
      1. Japanese brought quilts over and everyone wanted to quilt like them
3. World Fair
   1. Chicago (1893)
      1. Wrigley's gum
      2. Cracker Jack
      3. Spray Paint
      4. Dishwasher
      5. Ferris Wheel
         1. Made $395,000
4. Music
   1. Daisy Bell (1892)
      1. Harry Dacre
   2. The Cat Came Back (1893)
      1. Harry S. Miller
   3. The Band Played On (1895)
      1. Charles B. Ward and John F. Palmer

Thursday: Group 2 continued

1. Inventions
   1. Zipper, typewriter, x-ray, radio, dishwasher, diesel engine, rubber tires for bikes, vacuum cleaner, aspirin
2. African-American Civil Rights Movement
   1. 1896- Plessy vs. Ferguson
      1. Supreme Court decided that racial segregation is constitutional
      2. Paves way for Jim Crow laws in the South
      3. Law states "equal but separate"
         1. "Separate but not equal"
3. Equal Right Push for Women
   1. 1896- National Association of Colored Women
      1. 100 African-American women's club unites
      2. Form organization to promote equality for women
      3. Oppose segregation and racial violence
4. Equal rights push for handicapped
   1. Handicapped were thought of as insane
   2. 1896- Rhode Island opened first public education classroom for students with disabilities
   3. 1897- half of the states passed laws declaring marriages including handicapped of no importance
5. Movies
   1. The Haunted Castle (1896)
      1. 3 minutes- comedy and horror
   2. Cinderella (1899)
      1. 5 minutes- Melies adaptation
   3. The Kiss (1896)
      1. Edison Manufacturing
      2. 45 seconds
   4. The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fights
      1. Most successful 

Friday: no school