City Growth
Church Response Rise tide of immigration creates and intros new religions into American society Roman Catholicism Judaism By 1890, 150 denominations existed Charles Darwin’s teachings of evolution disrupt Christian beliefs Natural selection- Nature blinded selects organisms for survival
Education Increases Public Elementary Education increased Public High School Education increased as well, replacing private high school education College education also increased for all. Separate universities for white males, white women, black men and black women were set up Booker T Washington- Education for blacks 44% of non- whites in the south were illiterate Tuskegee Institute- First started as a trade school, then led to education
W.E.B. Du Bois First partially black man to receive his Ph.D from Harvard Founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Demanded equal rights for all blacks, on all levels: politically, educationally, economically and socially
College Education Specialization in school became the forefront of curriculum. Various majors became to be offered Sciences Medicine Psychology
The Press The printed word remained a major source of education and enjoyment for Americans Library’s were popular hotspots for Americans Newspapers offering daily news and interesting stories were also popular Topics such as sex, scandal, human interest stories sprang into the headlines Joseph Pulitzer, and William Hearst were two newspaper tycoons
The Press Pulitzer began to put colored comics into his newspapers to supplement the reading Yellow Journalism: No legitimate or researched news, just great headlines and juicy stories Magazines slowly became another form of entertainment for Americans
Great Writers of 1900s Emily Dickinson Mark Twain Walt Whitman Books and poems became a little more scandalous, about everyday life than many Americans could relate to
New Morality and Women’s Independence As women began to infiltrate the working class of America they slowly became more independent New Morality became apparent: high divorce rates, birth control, frank discussions about sexual topics Women would now spend free nights after work at dance halls and bars
Families in 1800-1900 America Birthrates fell Child labor increased Family structure became unstable
Women’s Rights and movements National American Woman Suffrage Association Led by feminists Insisted on women’s voting rights Women’s Christian Temperance Union Tried to make alcohol illegal