American Culture and Daily Life in the Gilded Age Unit 5: The Industrial Revolution and Gilded Age (1865- 1900)
Jan 11, 2016
American Culture and Daily Life in the Gilded Age
Unit 5: The Industrial Revolution and Gilded Age
(1865-1900)
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age –1873 novel by Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
Crooked Politicians Greed, Poverty, &
Racism, Industrial filth Hidden by a new culture
that stemmed from industrial growth
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’)
Ragtime: The Popular Music of the Day
Saloons, gambling, drinking, and music
Scott Joplin – Ragtime – the forerunner of Jazz music
The Maple Leaf Rag and The Entertainer were hits
Sheet Music became popular
Scott Joplin - The Entertainer (1902)
New Forms of Popular Entertainment
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
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
Exit Slip – Popular Culture during the Gilded Age
1. T or F: Conspicuous Consumerism exists when demand is low for manufactured goods.
2. T or F: Movie theatres began to appear in America during the Gilded Age.
3. T or F: Ragtime appeared as a popular form of music during the Gilded Age.
4. T or F: Basketball was the most popular sport in American during the Gilded Age.
African American Voting Restrictions Ku Klux Klan (1865) Jim Crow Laws =
Segregation Poll Taxes Property Tests = own land Literacy Tests (separate
tests for whites and blacks)
Grandfather Clauses
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
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.
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
What does it mean???
BLUE RED
Exit Slip – The Age of Jim Crow1. 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