Monday: Worked on family genealogy presentations
Tuesday: Talk about the presidents during the late 1800's and early 1900's
Wednesday: Took notes over Chapter Questions
Thursday: Took notes over Chapter Questions
Friday: Work day on our family genealogy projects
Key Questions
Pendleton Civil Service Act- 1883
*Required most government jobs to be given through a merit system based on test scores
*1883: 14,000/117,000 government jobs required tests
*1900: 100,000/200,000 government jobs required tests
*Leon Czolgosz killed president McKinley, he was an anarchist
*Buffalo, New York at the World's Fair
*September 6,1901
*Eight days later, McKinley died from infection
Ch. 8.1:
What advances in science and technology help solve urban problems?
*Skyscrapers
*Flatiron Building- 1902
*Electric streetcars
*Subways- 1904
*Cash register-1879
*Automatic dishwasher-1889
*Vacuum cleaner-1899
*Airplane-1903
*Kodak Camera-1888
*Automobile- late 1800's
*Light Bulb- 1879
*Telephone- 1876
*Typewriter- 1867
*Radio- 1895
*Toilet paper- 1857
Ch. 8.2:
-How did education change in the late 1800's and early 1900's?
*Education was for the wealthy
*Most states had public schools by 1865
*But many school-aged children still received no formal education-worked in factories instead
*Between 1865-1895, states passed laws requiring 12-16 weeks annually of school
*Classes focused on the "3 R's" - reading, "riting", & "rithmetic"
*Memorization and recitation was very common
*Why did "the lecture" become a common strategy for teachers?
How is our school system set up like a factory during the Industrial Revolution?
*The bells
*Assembly line
*Students are tested and if they pass, move to the next part of the assembly line
*Schools were/are "one size fits all" and prepared students to work in factories upon finishing school
Religion in Schools
*Public schools had mandatory readings from the Protestant Bible
*Many Catholic families were concerned
*Catholic communities set up parochial schools to give their children a Catholic Education
*Parochial School: a school supported by a church parish
Higher Education
*From 1880-1920, college enrollments quadrupled
*High School diploma and entrance exams were used in admittance purposes
*Morrill Act-1862
*Iowa State- 1858
*Drake-1881
*Iowa- 1847
*UNI- 1876
Ch. 8.3:
What laws and restrictions were put on African-Americans and other minorities after Reconstruction ended?
*African Americans were mostly exclude from public schools or had to attend segregated schools
*In 1910, 3% of African Americans between the ages 15-19 attended H.S.
*Immigrants were encouraged to go to school
*Most European immigrant families sent their children to the free public schools
*Children learned English and became "Americanized"
Segregation
*Literacy test
*Before you could vote, you had to prove that you could read or write, most blacks couldn't read or write, some poor, white people
*Poll tax
*Pay a little bit of money before you could vote, kept blacks from voting usually because they were poor, also poor, white people
*Grandfather Clause (1-1-1867)
*If your grandfather could vote prior to that day, you could vote in elections
*Jim Crow laws
*Segregation laws, specific laws states would pass
Lynching and violence
*KKK, threats, hangings- kept the blacks from voting
Explain the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson.
*"Separate but Equal"
*Separate and unequal in reality
*According to the Supreme Court, you could have segregation as long as they were equal. In reality, nothing was equal for the African Americans
Ch. 8.4:
Explain what people did for entertainment in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
*Amusement Parks
*Circus
*Vaudeville Shows
*Singing, dancing, ventriloquist shows
*Minstrel Shows
*Black face, over emphasize black characteristics
*Parks (Central Park)
Explain what people did for entertainment in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
*Basketball
*Golf
*Boxing
*Biking
*Tennis
*Movies. First movie in 1903 "The Great Train Robbery"
*World Fairs
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