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Segregation, Discrimination & Culture. Life During the Gilded Age. New Technologies. Printing - literacy rate rose, huge quantities of cheap paper, cheap to buy newspapers Airplanes - advance in transportation Orville & Wilbur Wright Photography -made more flexible & portable Kodak camera.
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Segregation, Discrimination & Culture Life During the Gilded Age
New Technologies • Printing- literacy rate rose, huge quantities of cheap paper, cheap to buy newspapers • Airplanes- advance in transportation • Orville & Wilbur Wright • Photography-made more flexible & portable • Kodak camera
Voting Restrictions • Denied legal equality to African Americans • Literacy Test • Poll tax- annual tax that had to be paid before qualifying to vote • Grandfather clause- man is entitled to vote if he, his father, or grandfather had been eligible to vote
Jim Crow Laws • Racial segregation laws to separate whites and blacks in public and private facilities • Schools, hospitals, parks, transportation systems
Plessy v. Ferguson • Separation of races in public accommodations was legal and did not violate the 14th amendment • Separate but equal • Legalized racial segregation for 60 years
Race Relations • Between 1882 and 1892, more than 1400 African Americans were shot, burned or hanged without trial • Many blacks migrated north in search of better-paying jobs & social equality • Discrimination also in the North
Discrimination in the West • Mexican workers hired to work on railroads • Worked for less money than other ethnic groups • Debt Peonage- system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a debt to the employer • Chinese immigrants pushed into segregated schools & neighborhoods
Reformers Mobilize • Social Gospel Movement- preached salvation through service to the poor • Settlement Houses- community centers in slum neighborhoods that provided assistance to people in the area (esp. immigrants) • Middle class, college-educated women ran • Jane Addams- founded the Hull House
Dawn of Mass Culture • Rise of consumer culture • Whites had leisure time for recreational activities • Amusement parks • Bicycling and tennis • Spectator sports • Baseball
Spread of Mass Culture • Newspapers • Joseph Pulitzer • William Randolph Hearst • Fine Arts • Ashcan School • Popular Fiction
New Ways to Sell Goods • Urban Shopping- first shopping center opens • Department Stores chain stores • Woolworth’s • Explosion in advertising • Modern consumerism • Catalogs • Montgomery Ward & Sears • Rural Free Delivery- system that brought packages directly to every home • Music spread by NYC’s Tin Pan Alley