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Chapter 25 : Odds and Ends. Booker T. Washington. “ accomodationist ” Ex-slave Believed in self-help Trades Lifting oneself up by the “bootstraps” Tuskegee Institute Education -> Economic independence -> Social equality. W.E.B. DuBois. 1 st African American to earn their PhD (Harvard)
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Booker T. Washington • “accomodationist” • Ex-slave • Believed in self-help • Trades • Lifting oneself up by the “bootstraps” • Tuskegee Institute • Education -> Economic independence -> Social equality
W.E.B. DuBois • 1st African American to earn their PhD (Harvard) • Born and raised in Mass. • Demanded economic and social equality • Believed BTW condemned black Americans to a life of manual labor • Helped found the NAACP • “talented tenth”
Education • Increasing number of colleges and universities • Opportunities for men, women and African Americans • Land-grant colleges- • created under the Morrill Act of 1862 and later extended • Federal grant of public land for education • Later became state colleges and universities • (also sea-grant colleges to study sea life)
Yellow Journalism • Sensationalism • Sex and scandal to sell papers • Used newsboys to sell papers • Cheap- “penny press” • Some fiction Joseph Pulitzer New York World William Randolph Hearst New York Journal
Reform • Henry George- Progress and Poverty • 100% tax on property tax (unearned income from increasing property values) • Only affected the “propertied” class • Edward Bellamy- Looking Backward • Utopian socialism • Industrialized society serves the public interest
Changes • New Morality- more freedom for women • Impact: increasing divorce rate, use of birth control measures, open discussions on sex • Urban life difficult for families • Increased divorce rate, married later in life • Everyone worked- downfall of paternal family structure & increase of independent women • Smaller families • Birth control
Reform: Women’s Suffrage • National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) • Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony • Carrie Chapman Catt • Argued women needed vote b/c of their role in city affairs- health, urban leagues, schools, etc.. • Did not use equality • Wyoming Territory- 1st to grant suffrage • Nearly every central and western state granted right prior to the 19th amendment
Reform: Prohibition • Middle class fight against working class • Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) • Frances E. Willard • Carrie Nation- “Kansas Cyclone” • Used a hatchet to chop up saloons • Hurt prohibition movement
18th Amendment: Prohibition 1919
“City Beautiful” • Transform urban spaces • Creation of parks and public spaces • Lighted streets • Boulevards • Olmstead’s Central Park project • Daniel Burnham- World’s Columbian Exposition
Chicago World’s Fair (1893) • Create a DETAILED web of everything you can remember about the fair from your reading of The Devil in the White City • Info on next slide • QUESTION: By the late 1890s Americans believed they were superior and had a “white man’s burden” to christianize and colonize other areas of the globe. What examples from the book illustrate our white superiority? Include pg. #s.
UPCOMING…. • Chapter 25 Test on Wednesday REVIEW: • Read Chapter 7 in the review book. • Questions 1-10 due on Friday • Quiz online over weekend