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Chapter 9 History te
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Role of Education | -teach all to read and write -Americanize immigrants |
| Higher Education | -new colleges were created -prepare students for growing industrial economy |
| Women in Education | -seperate schools for women -taught to become either a teacher or a nurse |
| Radcliffe College | -all girls school established by Harvard in 1879 |
| Oberlin College | -first college to go coed -in Ohio |
| African Americans in Higher Education | -Howard U , Hampton Institute -# of black colleges built during reconstruction |
| Booker T Washington | -founded tuskegee institute -desire for equal rights -believed way to do this was economically |
| W.E.B. Dubois | -believed in equal rights -believed way to do it was through politics |
| Entertainment | -vaudeville -Circus -Amusement Parks _Sports |
| Vaudeville | -live theatrical performanes on stage -comics, dancers, singers, magic acts, animal acts, jugglers |
| The Circus | -railroads let them travel easier and faster |
| Amusement Parks | -near big cities -Coney Island near NY , Most famous |
| Sports | -Pro baseball became popular in the late 1800's -1st pro team: Cincinnati Red Leggings -college football becomes populer, 1st game: Princeton vs Rutgers |
| Individual Sports | _golf for the rich -tennis and swimming -Biking;lesuirely |
| Newspapers | -just to make money -Yellow Journalists: find stories and exaggerate ... William Randolph Heart and Joseph Pulitzer |
| Voting Restrictions | -grandfather clause: grandpa cant vote then you cant -Poll tax: pay to vote -Literacy test; had to be able to read and write |
| Jim Crow Laws | -purpose was to split up blacks and whites -created deep division |
| Plessy vs Ferguson | -Supreme cout case in 1896 -ruled segregation legal -"seperate but equal" |
| Resisting Discrimination | -black leaders tried to find ways to end discrimination -essays about the wrongs of discrimination began to be written -advocated black pride |
| Mary White Obington | -white social worker -concerned with race relations problems -called for conference in 1909 |
| NAACP | -from the conference comes this organization -purpose: abolish segregation and discrimination and gain civil rights for blacks -work through politics to gain goals -Major leader: WEB Dubois |
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