1. Segregation, Discrimination & Culture
Life During the Gilded Age

2. New Technologies
Printing- literacy rate rose, huge quantities of cheap paper, cheap to buy newspapers
Airplanes- advance in transportation
Orville & Wilbur Wright
Photography-made more flexible & portable
Kodak camera

3. Voting Restrictions Denied legal equality to African Americans
Literacy Test
Poll tax- annual tax that had to be paid before qualifying to vote
Grandfather clause- man is entitled to vote if he, his father, or grandfather had been eligible to vote

4. Jim Crow Laws
Racial segregation laws to separate whites and blacks in public and private facilities
Schools, hospitals, parks, transportation systems

5. Plessy v. Ferguson
Separation of races in public accommodations was legal and did not violate the 14th amendment
Separate but equal
Legalized racial segregation for 60 years

6. Race Relations
Between 1882 and 1892, more than 1400 African Americans were shot, burned or hanged without trial
Many blacks migrated north in search of better-paying jobs & social equality
Discrimination also in the North

7. Discrimination in the West
Mexican workers hired to work on railroads
Worked for less money than other ethnic groups
Debt Peonage- system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a debt to the employer
Chinese immigrants pushed into segregated schools & neighborhoods

8. Reformers Mobilize
Social Gospel Movement- preached salvation through service to the poor
Settlement Houses- community centers in slum neighborhoods that provided assistance to people in the area (esp. immigrants)
Middle class, college-educated women ran
Jane Addams- founded the Hull House

9. Dawn of Mass Culture Rise of consumer culture
Whites had leisure time for recreational activities
Amusement parks
Bicycling and tennis
Spectator sports
Baseball

10. Spread of Mass Culture Newspapers Fine Arts Popular Fiction
Joseph Pulitzer
William Randolph Hearst
Fine Arts
Ashcan School
Popular Fiction

11. New Ways to Sell Goods Urban Shopping- first shopping center opens
Department Stores  chain stores
Woolworth’s
Explosion in advertising
Modern consumerism
Catalogs
Montgomery Ward & Sears
Rural Free Delivery- system that brought packages directly to every home
Music spread by NYC’s Tin Pan Alley