8.3 & 8.4 notes Segregation & Discrimination Dawn of Mass Culture

Please answer the following question in your notes: What are some of the activities that you enjoy doing in your free time?

African Americans Fight Legal Discrimination Voting Restrictions Denied legal equality at the polls Poll tax – paid prior to voting; most too poor to pay it. Literacy tests – answer 100 questions in 2 minutes; most couldn’t read Grandfather clause – if your father or grandfather could vote prior to Jan. 1, 1867 you could vote; no freed slaves prior to this date Formal and informal race etiquette – never shake hands, yield sidewalk to pedestrians; removing hats

Discrimination in the North Segregated neighborhoods Workplace discrimination; couldn’t get acceptance into labor unions Violent race riots in New York City 1900

Discrimination in the West Railroads hired Mexicans – paid less and worked more than other ethnic groups Vital to mining, agriculture Forced into debt peonage – bound to slavery to pay off debt with employer Didn’t change until 1911 – Supreme Court ruled violated 13 th amendment

Chinese Exclusion Whites feared job competition Often pushed Chinese into segregated schools and neighborhoods Chinese Exclusion Act passed out of strong opposition

Dawn of Mass Culture American Leisure Amusement parks – Coney Island Bicycling and tennis Spectator sports – baseball Spreading Mass Culture Newspapers sold with sensational headlines Literacy rates rose – popular fiction

New Ways to Sell Goods – read through pages and complete the following: Tell me about THEN 1.What was shopping like during the 1900s 2.What was the department store? 3.What was the chain store? 4.How was advertising important to selling products? 5.What were catalogs and RFDs? Tell me about NOW 1.How has shopping changed today? 2.What are some of the popular department stores now? 3.Do stores today still employ some of the same strategies to get consumers to buy? 4.How important is advertising today? What forms does advertising take today?