1. American Culture and Daily Life in the Gilded Age
(1870 – 1900)

2. The Gilded Age The Gilded Age –1873 novel by Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
Crooked Politicians
Greed, Poverty, & Racism
Hidden by a new culture that stemmed from industrial growth

3. Conspicuous Consumerism
More people working for wages instead of themselves
More products available
R. Macy, Jordan Marsh, Mont. Ward, M. Field,J. Wannamaker = Department Stores
Rural Free Delivery = Mail Order Catalog business boomed (like Richard Sears’)

4. New Forms of Popular Entertainment
Saloons and Ragtime – Scott Joplin
Amusement Parks like Coney Island, NYC
Nickelodeons 5¢ theaters- first movie was 12 min!
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
Vaudeville Shows - Family Variety Shows
Traveling Circuses

5. Popular Sports of the Era
Baseball - Cincinnati Red Stockings (1869); it became the national pastime!
American Football - Walter Camp - Rugby (1880s)
Basketball - Dr. James Naismith (1891)
Boxing, Horseracing, Ice Skating, Bikes

6. Exit Slip – Popular Culture during the Gilded Age
T or F: Conspicuous Consumerism exists when demand is low for manufactured goods.
T or F: Movie theatres began to appear in America during the Gilded Age.
T or F: Ragtime appeared as a popular form of music during the Gilded Age.
T or F: Basketball was the most popular sport in American during the Gilded Age.

7. African American Voting Restrictions
Ku Klux Klan (1865)
Jim Crow Laws
Poll Taxes
Property Ownership
Literacy Tests (separate tests for whites and blacks)
Grandfather Clauses

8. Booker T. Washington Tuskegee Inst. (1881) in Alabama
Vocational Skills
Accommodate Racism in exchange for Economic Equality
George W. Carver
Up From Slavery (1901) Biography

9. W.E.B. DuBois PhD from Harvard (1895)-1st Af. Am.
Niagara Movement (1905)
NAACP (1910)
Advocated immediate equality for Af. Am.
Hated Washington’s “Atlanta Compromise”
and Accommodation.

10. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Upheld the Jim Crow Laws
“Separate but Equal” didn’t violate 14th Amendment
Common in the North too
Not overturned until 1954

11. Exit Slip – The Age of Jim Crow
1. All of the following were passed in Southern states to keep African-Americans from voting except a. poll taxes. b. literacy tests. c. amendments. 2. Booker T. Washington said the #1 concern for African-Americans should be ___________. a. fighting racism b. vocational skills c. religion 3. W.E.B. DuBois strongly ________ with Washington. a. agreed b. disagreed 4. The landmark court case that established the doctrine of “separate but equal” in 1896 was _______. a. Brown v. Topeka b. Tinker v. Des Moines c. Plessy v. Ferguson d. Gibbons v. Ogden