A CHANGING CULTURE SEC PAGES Define: yellow journalism – realism- regionalism – vaudeville Identify: John Dewey – Booker T. Washington – George W. Carver – Joseph Pulitzer- William Randolph Hearst – Mark Twain -

EXPANDING EDUCATION Reformers believed the US needed to progress – people needed more education Public schools increased – girls attended - boys still went to work to help families In South, African Americans still attending segregated schools – or receiving no education “Progressives” want students to learn citizenship as well as facts. John Dewey – relate learning to interests, problems, concerns of students 1862 – Morrill Act – US gov’t gave land to states to sell for education –land-grant colleges. Admitted women – later African Americans – Native Americans.

Minorities & Higher Education Booker T. Washington Founder of Tuskegee Institute – teach trades to African Americans Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pa – train Native Americans for jobs

George Washington Carver George Washington Carver – scientist – joins Tuskegee Inst. Developed hundreds of products from the peanut (plastics, synthetic rubber, shaving cream, paper) and sweet potato

SUMMARY What famous school did Booker T. Washington start? What was the purpose of this school? What famous scientist worked here?

NATION OF READERS Public libraries – Andrew Carnegie donated $300 million to open more than 2,000 libraries, worldwide. Newspapers – began using yellow journalism – sensational writing of stories using exaggeration, gruesome details, false reporting to grab readers attention New York World – Joseph Pulitzer – New York Morning Journal – William Randolph Hearst

Changes in Literature Realism – describe real lives of people Regionalism – writing that focused on a particular region of the US Mark Twain – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Adventures of Tom Sawyer Stephen Crane – Red Badge of Courage Jack London – The Call of the Wild – White Fang

ARTISTS Frederic Remington – American west – cowboys – Native Americans Winslow Homer – Southern farmers – sea scenes James Whistler- Arrangement in Grey and Black (Whistler’s Mother)

MUSIC & LEISURE John Philip Sousa – The Stars and Stripes Forever (marches) Jazz – ragtime – African American rhythms More Leisure time for Americans Spectator sports – baseball – basketball – tennis – golf – bicycling Vaudeville - variety shows – dancing, singing, comedy, magic acts Nickelodeons – 5 cents for movies

SUMMARY Vocab term that means sensational writing of stories using exaggeration, gruesome details, false reporting to grab readers attention List several activities people began to do for leisure time in the late 1800s.