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Section 3 A Changing Culture
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Emma Lazarus… “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” This is found at the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York City.
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Education??? 1865 – Most attended school for 4 years 1914 – Most states required kids to have some schooling. 80% of all kids attended elementary or secondary schools
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Morrill Act Gave states large amount of federal land that could be sold to raise money for education.
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Booker T. Washington Founded Tuskegee Institute in 1881 What was its purpose? To educate and train teachers and to provide practical education for African Americans
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George Washington Carver A scientist…. Developed products such as plastics, synthetic rubbber, shaving cream, and paper…..all from? the peanut
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Native Americans’ Education Reservation schools and boarding schools trained for jobs….but they were isolated from their tribal traditions
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What is a philanthropist? Who was one in a previous chapter? Andrew Carnegie
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2 Newspaper Publishers Joseph Pulitzer He created a new kind of newspaper that grabbed a reader’s attention by using illustrations, cartoons, and huge and scary headlines.
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William Randolph Hearst Yellow Journalism The exaggeration of dramatic or gruesome aspects of a story
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realism – sought to describe the life of real people regionalism – writing that focused on a certain region of the country
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John Philip Sousa Wrote rousing marches including…. “The Stars and Stripes Forever”
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Jazz and Ragtime Music Became popular in New Orleans, LA in the late 1800s by African Americans Ragtime music was populized by Scott Japlin
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How did people spend their leisure time? watching baseball first World Series in 1903 football English gave of rugby tennis/golf - wealthy
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Dr. James Naismith Invented the game of basketball in 1890s
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Thomas Edison made the first “moving pictures” later called….. nickelodeons
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