Journal Tell me your favorite thing in history and why?
Science and Public Education Chapter 8 Sec 1-2
Technology City Life Skyscrapers Transportation Engineering - Planning Louis Sullivan Transportation Engineering - Planning Frederick Law Olmsted Central Park
Printing Airplanes Technology Books, magazines, newspapers Electrical press Faster & Cheaper Literacy rate + 90% Airplanes Wright Brothers Orville, Wilbur Kitty Hawk N.C. Dec. 17, 1903 120 ft. = 12 sec.
Technology Cont. Photography George Eastman Flexible Film Kodak camera $25 100 picture roll Photo Journalism
Public Education Schools 8 to 14 yrs. 12 – 16 weeks 3 R’s Punishment Quality teachers Kindergarten Growth of High Schools Expanded curriculum
Education Cont. Higher Education Immigrants African Americans excluded Encouraged to go to school Americanized Night School = Adults Learn English Higher Education 1880 – 1920 College enrollment quadrupled New Courses Science Psychology Sociology Law Medicine
Booker T. Washington Prominent Educator End of racism Useful labor skills Vocational education Value to society Tuskegee University Taught = Agricultural, Mechanical, Domestic skills
W.E.B. Du Bois NAACP = 1909 Niagara Movement = 1905 Doctorate = Harvard Niagara Movement = 1905 Seek liberal arts education Educated blacks in mainstream NAACP = 1909 “National Association for the Advancement of Colored People” Co-founder All men created equal
Discrimination Legal Discrimination Laws restricting civil rights Denied legal equality Segregation
Voting Restrictions Literacy Tests Poll Tax Grandfather Clause South Difficult questions Poll Tax Paid before voting Sharecropper too poor Grandfather Clause Reinstate white voters Could vote if …………. Father / Grandfather voted in 1860 Election *Free slaves couldn’t vote*
Jim Crow Laws Plessy v. Ferguson = 1896 Rights Lost Segregation laws passed = South Separate Facilities Schools, Hospitals, Transportation Plessy v. Ferguson = 1896 Separation of races in public accommodations was legal Had to be equal Did not violate 14th Amendment
Discrimination Discrimination in North Forced racial etiquette Face punishment = death 1882 – 1892 1,400 African Americans killed Discrimination in North Same treatment Labor Unions discouraged Violent competition
American Leisure Leisure Activities Amusement Parks Bicycling / Tennis Coney Island = 1884 Bicycling / Tennis Boxing Baseball Cincinnati Red Stockings 1st World Series = 1903 Media Radio Newspapers = stories, comics, sports Popular Fiction Mark Twain = Huck Finn Dime Novels = 10 cents
Manufactured Goods New ways to Sell Shopping Centers Department Stores Macys Chain stores Woolworths Advertising Catalogs Sears Montgomery Wards RFD Rural Free Delivery