1. Chapter 16
Sections 3 and 4

2. Warm-Up
Why did America add high schools and universities to its educational system at the end of the 1800’s?

3. Segregation and Discrimination
Chapter 16 Section 3
Segregation and Discrimination
I. African-Americans fought violence:
A. Ida B. Wells: 1892
1. Born into slavery
2. Worked as a teacher,editor of newspaper
3. Her three businessmen friends were lynched
4. Spent life writing, lecturing, against lynching.

4. II. African-Americans fought legal discrimination in Southern states: A. Efforts to prevent African-Americans from voting: 1. Literacy Tests: Required to pass to test reading ability – only difficult questions 2. Poll Tax: Required to pay to vote B. Jim Crow Laws: 1870’s and 1880’s 1.Southern states 2. Races separated in public and private facilities (ie. schools, stores, restrms, parks, hospitals, trans)

6. C. Plessy v Ferguson: 1896
1. Supreme Court Decision that legalized segregation in U.S.
2. Af-Am and white facilities must be “separate but equal”
D. Racial “etiquette”: Af-Am expected
1. To not shake hands with whites (equal)
2. To tip hat to whites
3. Yield sidewalks to whites

7. Class Question #1
Do you think that the Plessy v Ferguson Supreme Court Decision improved facilities for African Americans? Why?

8. Class Question #2
What do you think happened to African Americans who did not practice the racial “etiquette”? Why?

9. III. Discrimination in the West: A. Debt peonage: 1
III. Discrimination in the West: A. Debt peonage: 1. Bound workers into slavery in order to work off a debt 2. Who? Mexican-Americans 3. Where? Am Southwest a. Southern Pacific Railroad b. mines, agriculture 4. Supreme Court violation 13th Am – 1911

10. Chapter 16 Section 4 Mass Culture I
Chapter 16 Section 4 Mass Culture I. American middle class emerged by 1900 A. Americans worked 10 hours a day B. Americans earned money II. Time to spend on fun: A. Amusement parks: Coney Island: 1894 First Ferris wheel: 1893

13. B. Bicycling: 1. First - men only 2. New bikes = women a
B. Bicycling: 1. First - men only 2. New bikes = women a. Women changed clothes for first time No Corset Split Skirt

15. C. Tennis:

17. D. Spectator sports:
1. Boxing
2. Baseball:
a. Professional teams
later 1800’s
b. First World Series
1903

18. E. Shows: Vaudeville 1. Singing and dancing shows

19. 2. Silent Movies:

20. 3. Barnum and Bailey Circus: (Extra-Credit Movie) The Greatest Showman

21. III. Spread of mass (middle-class) culture: A. Newspapers: 1
III. Spread of mass (middle-class) culture: A. Newspapers: 1. Joseph Pulitzer: New York Newspaper 2. William Randolph Hearst: San Francisco Newspaper B. American artists: 1. Thomas Eakins: realist

22. Thomas Eakins – “The Champion”

23. C. Music: Ragtime 1. Blend of African-American and European D
C. Music: Ragtime 1. Blend of African-American and European D. Shopping: 1. Department stores 2. Chain stores 3. Advertising 4. Catalogs to rural areas