1. Agenda: Entertainment in the Gilded Age
Reminder:
Vocab Quiz Monday
Gilded Age Test Thursday October 6

2. Black Social and Economic Progress
Chapter 9 Key Terms
Complete This t Chart
Black Social and Economic Progress
Pages
philanthropists
Niagara Movement
vaudeville
yellow journalism
poll tax
segregation
grandfather clause
Jim Crow Laws
lynching
Plessy v. Ferguson
NAACP
Booker T. Washington
WEB DuBois
List characteristics and information to describe his approach.

3. Gilded Age Test Thursday !
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4. Founded the Tuskegee Institute
List characteristics and information to describe their approach.
Booker T. Washington
WEB DuBois
Founded the Tuskegee Institute
Instructed his students to focus on political equality through economic security by gaining vocational skills
Felt Blacks could achieve acceptance by succeeding economically
1st African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard
Encouraged African American’s to be leaders
Encouraged African Americans to seek advanced liberal arts education rather than vocational.
Founded the Niagara Movement
Became a leader of the NAACP

5. Booker T. And W.E.B. by Dudley Randall
“It seems to me,” said Booker T.,
“That all you folks have missed the boat
Who shout about the right to vote,
And spend vain days and sleepless nights
In uproar over civil rights.
Just keep your mouth shut, do not grouse
But work, and save, and buy a house.”
“I don’t agree,” said W.E.B.,
“For what can property avail
If dignity and justice fail?
Unless you help to make the laws,
They’ll steal your house with trumped-up clause.
A rope’s as tight, a fire as hot,
No matter how much cash you’ve got.
Speak soft, and try your little plan.
But as for me, I’ll be a man.”
“It seems to me,” said Booker T. –
“I don’t agree,” said W.E.B.
Booker T. And W.E.B. by Dudley Randall
“It seems to me,” said Booker T.,
“It shows a mighty lot of cheek
To study chemistry and Greek
When Mister Charlie needs a hand
To hoe the cotton on his land.
And when Miss Ann looks for a cook,
Why stick your nose into a book?”
“I don’t agree,” said W.E.B.
“If I should have the drive to seek
Knowledge of chemistry or Greek,
I’ll do it. Charles and Miss can look
Another place for hand and cook.
Some men rejoice in skill of hand,
And some in cultivating land,
But there are others who maintain
The right to cultivate the brain.”

6. Sporting events, especially baseball became a favorite pastime
Vaudeville, movies, amusement parks & other forms of entertainment became popular
Sporting events, especially baseball became a favorite pastime

7. Newspaper circulation soared
Magazines became more popular and circulation increased
The Fisk Jubilee Singers went on a concert tour, introducing white audiences to religious folk songs called spirituals

8. Technology of the trolley led to the development of amusement parks
1 of the sources was the minstrel show in which actors wore “black face” (exaggerated caricature of African Americans)
Family entertainment: song & dance routines, magic acts, performances by ventriloquists, jugglers and animals
Inexpensive variety show that 1st appeared in the 1870’s
- Based on ethnic & racial humor
“trolley parks”
Featured music, games of skill, vaudeville productions & exciting rides
Technology of the trolley led to the development of amusement parks
Inexpensive excursion from the city
Anticipation was built through early flyers, followed by the arrival of the train -People gathered to watch the big top go up, then a parade - followed by the performance.
Performances by stunt men, entertainers, animals, etc under the big top
Circus train – 1872
Became an annual visit
Various groups formed sports clubs – proved to have a large audience for games so entrepreneurs closed stadiums and started charging admission
The competition, entertainment
Speed & timing of the game
Baseball, boxing, horse racing, football, basketball (only major sport of exclusive American origin) bicycling, tennis, swimming

9. Melodies with shifting accents over a steady, marching – band beat
1899 – a composer wrote “Maple Leaf Rag” which became popular
Infectious beat became popular
New style
Infectious
Became the rage
Dance clubs
Grew out of the culture of New Orleans and traveled North
A type of music of black origin
a religious song of a kind associated with black Christians of the southern US, and thought to derive from the combination of European hymns and African musical elements by black slaves.
The Fisk Jubilee Singers went on a concert tour, introducing white audiences to religious folk songs
As it became more popular aquired characteristics of European musical traditions
Became identified as an American art form

11. Plessy v. Ferguson When finished on your Star answer Who was involve?
Read Plessy V Ferguson with your Table Team. (Person #2 Reads first) You have 12 minutes
When finished on your Star answer
Who was involve?
Where did it take place?
When did it happen?
Why did it happen?
What was the issue?
Summary Plessy v Ferguson is significant in U.S. History because …..
I learned….. (and something different you learned from the importance)

12. Gilded Age Test TOMORROW!

13. It provided grants to Pacific & Union Railway to complete the railroad
New York, Ellis Island
Provided them jobs
Southern & Eastern Europe
Age of corruption
Poor conditions in tenements & slums
immigration
Unofficial city organization to keep a particular party or group in power. They were corrupt.
Silver standard to help the farmers
Extreme hatred for foreigners & they wanted to limit immigration
They should be educated to be leaders and aid in civil rights movements.
A separation of white & African Americans/ Plessy v Ferguson
Dubois believed they should be educated & Washington believed they should gain economic status.
Civil rights organization to fight discrimination in court
Laws creating segregation through separate equal
They were corrupt.

14. Cities grew (urbanization)
Chinese Exclusion Act/ Asians
Ellis Island__________ Angel Island___________________
Rich got richer & poor got poorer
Political cartoonist who created Republican Elephant & Democratic Donkey
When immigrants bring their ideas & culture & melt it into American culture.
population growth.
vaudeville, circuses
Education, healthcare
National Association for Advancement of Colored People
inexpensive entertainment

15. Background of the case:
In 1890 Louisiana passed a law ordering railroads in the state “to provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races.”
Railway personnel were responsible for assigning seats according to race.

16. June 7, 1892
Homer Plessy, a native of Louisiana, who could “pass” for white agreed to the test case so he sat in in the white section and was arrested
He was tried and found guilty of violating the law
He appealed to the Louisiana Supreme Court and then to the US Supreme Court.

17. Constitutional Issue:
13th Amendment
- The segregated society that the south had created contained the essential features of the slave society before it.
14th Amendment
The segregated society denied him “equal protection of the law”
What is it?
What is it?

18. The Decision: 8 out of the 9 judges denied his appeal.
Justice Henry Brown wrote the Majority opinion stating that their decision was based on:
Does not violate the 13th amendment because “a legal distinction between white and colored races… has no tendency to destroy the legal equality of the two races”

19. Does not violate the 14th Amendment because the amendment “was not intended to give Negroes social equality but only political and civil equality” and the court cannot enforce social equality. Simply stated – court can’t make us all be friends

20. In his famous dissenting opinion, John Marshall Harlan attacked the constitutionality of the Louisiana law and argued that while the law may appear to treat blacks and whites equally, "every one knows that the statute in question had its origin in the purpose, not so much to exclude white persons from railroad cars occupied by blacks, as to exclude colored people from coaches occupied by or assigned to white persons.“ Harlan saw the Constitution as “color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.”

21. Separate but equal Plessy v. Ferguson
will be the law of the land for over 50 years.

22. African Americans and Women During the Gilded Age

23. African American Men:
In the South, by 1908 there were no more black state representatives
By 1900, there was only one Southern black Congressmen in Washington
By there was noticeable public discrimination in theaters, restaurants, hotels, etc. in the South.
Disenfranchisement of blacks begins (literacy tests, poll taxes)
1883- legal segregation begins in the South
lynchings average around 190 each year
some men became lawyers, doctors, professors and wealthy business owners
educated and wealthy blacks could go to Harvard, Yale, Columbia, as well as many other universities

24. Women:
“Women’s God-given role, if to be stated, is as wife and mother, keeper of the household, guardian of the moral purity of all who lived therein.”
95% of married women stayed home in
had little outside contact of the home; often had a servant who went to market and did all outside chores
rose around 4:30 and did chores (cooking, cleaning, keeping fire, sewing, wash, etc.) until 8:00
women were measured by how happy their husband was, how moral their children were and how clean, neat and organized your home was.
Wear a corset: this exerted 22 pounds of pressure on internal organs, which often caused collapsed lungs and displaced livers.
Could go to a few male colleges but were segregated and told that they “could not maintain the academic rigor of the male population.”
All-female colleges began that offered varied courses but upon graduation women found it difficult to get a job as anything else besides secretary, nurse, or teacher.

25. 1890 Writing Assignment
We have studied Plessy v. Ferguson, and glimpsed at the condition of both African Americans and women during the Gilded Age. In one paragraph tell me, if given the choice, would you have rather been an African American man or a white woman in the year 1890 and why. You must choose one and you must give REAL, VALID arguments to back your position. Use your Plessy v. Ferguson notes, notes on men & women during the Gilded Age, Chapter nine of your textbook and the notes to support your answer. While you must include historical proof, you may also include some of your own sociological observations on race and gender.

26. Tell about someone’s life!
Bio-Poem
Tell about someone’s life!
Format:
Name
4 descriptive words
Who cares deeply about __________
Who feels _____________________
Who needs to __________________
Who gives _____________________
Who fears _____________________
Who would like to see ___________
Resident of ____________________
EXAMPLE:
Abraham
Tall, thin, motivated, bearded
Who cares deeply about all men
Who feels sad much of the time, sometimes
alone in the world
Who needs to win the hearts of all his
countrymen
Who gives love to his family, advice to his
generals, consolation to a sorrowing nation,
Who fears the dissolution of the American
union,
Who would like to see every man respected
for his God-given dignity,
Resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,
Washington, D.C.
You will create 1 Bio Poems:
Choose 1 of the following:
WEB DuBois
Booker T Washington