1. Chapter 25: Odds and Ends

2. Booker T. Washington “accomodationist” Ex-slave Believed in self-help
Trades
Lifting oneself up by the “bootstraps”
Tuskegee Institute
Education -> Economic independence -> Social equality

3. W.E.B. DuBois 1st African American to earn their PhD (Harvard)
Born and raised in Mass.
Demanded economic and social equality
Believed BTW condemned black Americans to a life of manual labor
Helped found the NAACP
“talented tenth”

4. Education Increasing number of colleges and universities
Opportunities for men, women and African Americans
Land-grant colleges-
created under the Morrill Act of 1862 and later extended
Federal grant of public land for education
Later became state colleges and universities
(also sea-grant colleges to study sea life)

5. Yellow Journalism Sensationalism Sex and scandal to sell papers
Used newsboys to sell papers
Cheap- “penny press”
Some fiction
Joseph Pulitzer
New York World
William Randolph Hearst
New York Journal

6. Reform Henry George- Progress and Poverty
100% tax on property tax (unearned income from increasing property values)
Only affected the “propertied” class
Edward Bellamy- Looking Backward
Utopian socialism
Industrialized society serves the public interest

7. Changes New Morality- more freedom for women
Impact: increasing divorce rate, use of birth control measures, open discussions on sex
Urban life difficult for families
Increased divorce rate, married later in life
Everyone worked- downfall of paternal family structure & increase of independent women
Smaller families
Birth control

8. Reform: Women’s Suffrage
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
Carrie Chapman Catt
Argued women needed vote b/c of their role in city affairs- health, urban leagues, schools, etc..
Did not use equality
Wyoming Territory- 1st to grant suffrage
Nearly every central and western state granted right prior to the 19th amendment

10. Reform: Prohibition Middle class fight against working class
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
Frances E. Willard
Carrie Nation- “Kansas Cyclone”
Used a hatchet to chop up saloons
Hurt prohibition movement

11. 18th Amendment:
Prohibition
1919

12. “City Beautiful” Transform urban spaces
Creation of parks and public spaces
Lighted streets
Boulevards
Olmstead’s Central Park project
Daniel Burnham- World’s Columbian Exposition

13. Chicago World’s Fair (1893)
Create a DETAILED web of everything you can remember about the fair from your reading of The Devil in the White City
Info on next slide
QUESTION: By the late 1890s Americans believed they were superior and had a “white man’s burden” to christianize and colonize other areas of the globe. What examples from the book illustrate our white superiority? Include pg. #s.

14. Your web starter: Chicago World’s Fair Location Architectural Features
Attractions & Buildings
Inventions
Shows
Difficulties/ Problems
Miscellaneous/ Other

15. UPCOMING…. Chapter 25 Test on Wednesday REVIEW:
Read Chapter 7 in the review book.
Questions 1-10 due on Friday
Quiz online over weekend