American Culture and Daily Life in the Gilded Age

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American Culture and Daily Life in the Gilded Age (1870 – 1900)

The Gilded Age The Gilded Age –1873 novel by Mark Twain Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn Crooked Politicians Greed, Poverty, & Racism 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’)

New Forms of Popular Entertainment Saloons and Ragtime – Scott Joplin 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 T or F: Conspicuous Consumerism exists when demand is low for manufactured goods. T or F: Movie theatres began to appear in America during the Gilded Age. T or F: Ragtime appeared as a popular form of music during the Gilded Age. 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 Poll Taxes Property Ownership 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 14th Amendment Common in the North too Not overturned until 1954

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. agreed b. 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