segregation, discrimination & culture
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Segregation, Discrimination & Culture. Life During the Gilded Age. 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. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Segregation, Discrimination & Culture Life During the Gilded Age
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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
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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
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Jim Crow Laws Racial segregation laws to separate
whites and blacks in public and private facilities
Schools, hospitals, parks, transportation systems
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Dawn of Mass Culture Rise of consumer culture Whites had leisure time for recreational
activities Amusement parks Bicycling and tennis Spectator sports Baseball
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Spread of Mass Culture Newspapers
Joseph Pulitzer William Randolph Hearst
Fine Arts Ashcan School
Popular Fiction
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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