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•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

PulitzerNew York World

William Randolph HearstNew 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.

Your web starter:

Chicago

World’s Fair

Location

Architectural Features

Attractions & Buildings

InventionsShows

Difficulties/ Problems

Miscellaneous/ Other

UPCOMING….•Chapter 25 Test on Wednesday

REVIEW:•Read Chapter 7 in the review book. •Questions 1-10 due on Friday•Quiz online over weekend