Chapter 16 Sections 3 and 4

Warm-Up 2-14-18 Why did America add high schools and universities to its educational system at the end of the 1800’s?

Segregation and Discrimination Chapter 16 Section 3 Segregation and Discrimination I. African-Americans fought violence: A. Ida B. Wells: 1892 1. Born into slavery 2. Worked as a teacher,editor of newspaper 3. Her three businessmen friends were lynched 4. Spent life writing, lecturing, against lynching.

II. African-Americans fought legal discrimination in Southern states: A. Efforts to prevent African-Americans from voting: 1. Literacy Tests: Required to pass to test reading ability – only difficult questions 2. Poll Tax: Required to pay to vote B. Jim Crow Laws: 1870’s and 1880’s 1.Southern states 2. Races separated in public and private facilities (ie. schools, stores, restrms, parks, hospitals, trans)

C. Plessy v Ferguson: 1896 1. Supreme Court Decision that legalized segregation in U.S. 2. Af-Am and white facilities must be “separate but equal” D. Racial “etiquette”: Af-Am expected 1. To not shake hands with whites (equal) 2. To tip hat to whites 3. Yield sidewalks to whites

Class Question #1 Do you think that the Plessy v Ferguson Supreme Court Decision improved facilities for African Americans? Why?

Class Question #2 What do you think happened to African Americans who did not practice the racial “etiquette”? Why?

III. Discrimination in the West: A. Debt peonage: 1 III. Discrimination in the West: A. Debt peonage: 1. Bound workers into slavery in order to work off a debt 2. Who? Mexican-Americans 3. Where? Am Southwest a. Southern Pacific Railroad b. mines, agriculture 4. Supreme Court violation 13th Am – 1911

Chapter 16 Section 4 Mass Culture I Chapter 16 Section 4 Mass Culture I. American middle class emerged by 1900 A. Americans worked 10 hours a day B. Americans earned money II. Time to spend on fun: A. Amusement parks: Coney Island: 1894 First Ferris wheel: 1893

B. Bicycling: 1. First - men only 2. New bikes = women a B. Bicycling: 1. First - men only 2. New bikes = women a. Women changed clothes for first time No Corset Split Skirt

C. Tennis:

D. Spectator sports: 1. Boxing 2. Baseball: a. Professional teams later 1800’s b. First World Series 1903

E. Shows: Vaudeville 1. Singing and dancing shows

2. Silent Movies:

3. Barnum and Bailey Circus: (Extra-Credit Movie) The Greatest Showman

III. Spread of mass (middle-class) culture: A. Newspapers: 1 III. Spread of mass (middle-class) culture: A. Newspapers: 1. Joseph Pulitzer: New York Newspaper 2. William Randolph Hearst: San Francisco Newspaper B. American artists: 1. Thomas Eakins: realist

Thomas Eakins – “The Champion”

C. Music: Ragtime 1. Blend of African-American and European D C. Music: Ragtime 1. Blend of African-American and European D. Shopping: 1. Department stores 2. Chain stores 3. Advertising 4. Catalogs to rural areas