American Culture and Daily Life in the Gilded Age Unit 7: The Gilded Age ( )
The Gilded Age The Gilded Age –1873 novel by Mark Twain Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn Crooked Politicians Greed, Poverty, & Racism, Industrial filth Hidden by a new culture that stemmed from industrial growth
Conspicuous Consumerism More people working for wages instead of themselves More products available R. Macy, Jordan Marsh, Mont. Ward, M. Field,J. Wannamaker = Department Stores Rural Free Delivery = Mail Order Catalog business boomed (like Richard Sears’)
Ragtime: The Popular Music of the Day Saloons, gambling, drinking, and music Scott Joplin – Ragtime – the forerunner of Jazz music The Maple Leaf Rag and The Entertainer were hits Sheet Music became popular Scott Joplin - The Entertainer (1902) Scott Joplin - The Entertainer (1902)
New Forms of Popular Entertainment Amusement Parks like Coney Island, NYC Nickelodeons 5¢ theaters- first movie was 12 min! The Great Train Robbery (1903) Vaudeville Shows - Family Variety Shows Traveling Circuses
Popular Sports of the Era Baseball - Cincinnati Red Stockings (1869); it became the national pastime! American Football - Walter Camp - Rugby (1880s) Basketball - Dr. James Naismith (1891) Boxing, Horseracing, Ice Skating, Bikes
Exit Slip – Popular Culture during the Gilded Age 1. T or F: Conspicuous Consumerism exists when demand is low for manufactured goods. 2. T or F: Movie theatres began to appear in America during the Gilded Age. 3. T or F: Ragtime appeared as a popular form of music during the Gilded Age. 4. T or F: Basketball was the most popular sport in American during the Gilded Age.
African American Voting Restrictions Ku Klux Klan (1865) Jim Crow Laws = Segregation Poll Taxes Property Tests = own land Literacy Tests (separate tests for whites and blacks) Grandfather Clauses
Booker T. Washington Tuskegee Inst. (1881) in Alabama Vocational Skills Accommodate Racism in exchange for Economic Equality George W. Carver Up From Slavery (1901) Biography
W.E.B. DuBois PhD from Harvard (1895)-1st Af. Am. Niagara Movement (1905) NAACP (1910) Advocated immediate equality for Af. Am. Hated Washington’s “Atlanta Compromise” and Accommodation.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Upheld the Jim Crow Laws “Separate but Equal” didn’t violate 14 th Amendment Common in the North too Not overturned until 1954
VISION ACTIVITY WAS SEPARATE EQUAL? Cooperative Learning/ Simulation
What does it mean??? BLUE RED
Vision Activity: Was Separate Equal? th Amendment, Poll Tax, Literacy Test, Grandfather Clause? ,000 in 1894 to 1,300 in $14 per white student vs. $3 per African- American in South Carolina 4. Lynching? 5. Ida B. Wells-Barnett – writer who worked for anti-lynching law Reflection – What did you think?
Exit Slip – The Age of Jim Crow 1. All of the following were passed in Southern states to keep African-Americans from voting except a. poll taxes. b. literacy tests. c. amendments. 2. Booker T. Washington said the #1 concern for African- Americans should be ___________. a. fighting racism b. vocational skills c. religion 3. W.E.B. DuBois strongly ________ with Washington. a. agreedb. disagreed 4. The landmark court case that established the doctrine of “separate but equal” in 1896 was _______. a. Brown v. Topeka b. Tinker v. Des Moines c. Plessy v. Ferguson d. Gibbons v. Ogden