1. American History Chapter 9 America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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2. America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Topics discussed in this unit:
Education
Life for African Americans under Jim Crow laws
Entertainment
The changing role of women
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3. The World of Jim Crow
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4. Lynching
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5. The World of Jim Crow
As discrimination and violence became increasingly common, black leaders began to seek solutions for the race problems.
In 1905, many black leaders met to discuss the problem at the Niagara Conference in Ontario, Canada.
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6. Out of this conference came the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
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7. New Forms of Entertainment
From 1880 to 1915, Americans who had more money and leisure time began to flock to new forms of entertainment.
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8. New Forms of Entertainment
Americans began to look for new forms of entertainment to take them away from the dirty, crowded streets where they lived and work.
These forms of entertainment included vaudeville shows and, sometime later, movies.
They also included visits to the circus and trips to amusement parks.
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9. New Forms of Entertainment
This was the grand era of amusement parks such as Coney Island’s Luna Park.
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10. New Forms of Entertainment
Sports provided people with another form of inexpensive entertainment, and fans flocked to baseball, football, and basketball games in particular.
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11. 1889 Cincinnati Red Stockings
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12. Ben Turpin and Charlie Chaplin, 1915
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13. Amusement Parks
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14. New Forms of Entertainment
Other more personal forms of entertainment included the reading of newspapers, magazines, and dime-store novels.
Yellow Journalism resulted from papers competing to get the most readers to increase profits
Musical diversions included concerts, dances, or simply gathering around the piano at home.
The invention of the player piano and the phonograph helped spread the development of new musical styles such as jazz and ragtime.
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15. Jazz and Ragtime
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16. The Changing Roles of Women
With new inventions to make housework easier, women found their roles in society changing.
These changes fueled a debate over the proper role of women in the workplace, in education, and in the public arena.
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17. The Changing Roles of Women
At the turn of the century, there was wide debate throughout society on “the women question.”
For many women, the question boiled down to a few demands: Women should be able to vote, control their own property and income, and obtain an education and professional job.
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18. Early Suffragettes, 1913
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19. The Changing Roles of Women
Women’s role in the home had changed. Although there was still necessary work, it no longer took as many hours to take care of a home and family.
Few women needed to bake homemade bread or make their family’s clothes because ready-made items were less expensive and easily available.
Even rural families could receive many ready-made articles with rural free delivery from the post office and mail order catalogues from Sears and Montgomery Wards.
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20. Early Sears and Roebuck Catalogue
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21. The Changing Roles of Women
Many women worked in factories, as domestic servants, or as teachers or nurses either because their families needed the funds or because they wanted to work.
Most but not all women stopped working after marriage.
The invention of the typewriter and telephones provided more work opportunities for women as secretaries or operators.
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22. Wealthier women put their energies into volunteer work to improve society.
They joined clubs of common interest and worked for causes such as temperance and girl’s education.
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23. The Changing Roles of Women
Women’s groups established libraries and helped each other in speaking, writing, and finance.
The National Women’s Suffrage Organization began to strive toward gaining the vote for women in 1890 and would succeed thirty years later.
Although many women disagreed with some of the ideas of the “New Women” and her dress, hairstyles, occupations, and pastimes, suffrage was the issue on which nearly all of them could unite.
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24. National Women’s Suffrage Organization
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25. National Women’s Suffrage Organization
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