American Culture and Daily Life in the Gilded Age

Unit 7: The Gilded Age (1877-1900)

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

VISION ACTIVITYWAS SEPARATE EQUAL?

Cooperative Learning/ Simulation

What does it mean???

BLUE RED

Vision Activity: Was Separate Equal?

1. 15th Amendment, Poll Tax, Literacy Test, Grandfather Clause?

2. 130,000 in 1894 to 1,300 in 1904

3. $14 per white student vs. $3 per African-American in South Carolina

4. Lynching?

5. Ida B. Wells-Barnett – writer who worked for anti-lynching law

Reflection – What did you think?

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