Transcript New Dimensions in everyday life - America

New
Dimensions
in everyday
life
By: Elsie Paugh, Tariq Thompson, and Nick
Nguyen
6th period
women during the era
✣ During gilded age, the sphere system applied.
Victorian era ideology was still in practice.
⨳ According to historian Barbara Welter, the
qualities that pertained to women included
"piety, purity, submissiveness and domesticity.“
✣ Settlement house movement
⨳ The most well known settlement house was
Hull House. The Henry Street Settlement was
another famous one.
⨳ By 1910, there were more than 400 settlement
houses nation-wide.
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✣ Women becoming independent
⨳ Middle-class married women were mostly responsible for
reforms.
⨳ It was the single young women that started entering the
workforce
⨳ Women that had education and were pursuing a
professional career were called “new women”
✣ Victoria Woodhull
⨳ She was a women’s rights activist.
⨳ She ran a publication that wrote about women’s rights and
spoke for suffrage and eventually addressed congress on
the matter.
⨳ She even ran for president on the Equal Rights Party in
Victorian society and gilded
age
✣ Victorian era values and trends:
✣ Men and women had their separate spheres.
✣ Trends:
⨳ Fashion: corsets, excessive fabric, and bustles.
⨳ Tight lacing
⨳ Tattoos
✣ Gothic Revival
⨳ In Europe earlier, America around 1890s
⨳ Gothic architecture
⨳ Gothic literature: Dracula, Poe’s works
Edwardian and Progressive
era
✣ It was very fluid in trends
✣ Edwardian values and trends
⨳ Lace, circular and intricate jewelry, long dresses
✣ ¡Progressive era
⨳ Corsets: from tight lacing to the corset of 1907.
⨳ There was the elastic belt and bust bodice.
⨳ The first official bra was in 1913 and designed by Mary
Phelps Jacobs.
✣ The long dresses were fashionable and then later the uniform
dress became more of a trend
✣ Flappers appear for first time at the end of progressive era.
Development of Music: march
to jazz
✣ Ragtime can be traced back to 1865.
✣ Pioneered by Ernest Hogan.
✣ Characterized by a unique, “ragged”, or syncopated,
rhythm.
✣ Ragtime preceded by the well known march genre,
made popular by John Philip Sousa.
✣ American composer and conductor of the late
Romantic era. Known as “American March King”.
✣ Was very prolific in composing and famous for the
creation of the sousaphone.
✣ Marching music set a foundation for ragtime.
Scott Joplin: The King of
Ragtime
✣ African-American composer and pianist.
✣ Known as that “King of Ragtime”.
✣ Started music in a vocal quartet and teaching guitar
and mandolin.
✣ Left his job as a railroad worker to become a
musician.
✣ Taught piano to future ragtime composers.
✣ Started composing his own music roughly a year
later.
Jazz
✣ Emerged from a combination of the rhythms of Africa and
American melodies.
✣ Uses scales of varying modification that were expansions of the
conventional scales of classical music.
✣ Ragtime was a large part of building a foundation for jazz.
✣ Most jazz from then until now still incorporates the syncopated
rhythms with swung notes and improvisation.
✣ The fusion of African and Western musical aspects created one of
the most distinct forms of artistry.
✣ One of jazz’s most influential figures is Duke Ellington.
✣ His career with leading big bands started in 1927, and his fame and
influence on jazz skyrocketed since, making jazz one of America’s
greatest form of art.
Jack Johnson
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born in 1878 in Galveston Texas
- world's first black heavyweight champion in 1908, held title till 1915
- blacks originally weren't permitted to fight for heavyweight championships
- Jim Jeffries (champ from 1899 - 1905) retired, leaving others to scramble for
the championship
- Tommy Burns came out on top
- didn't want to fight Johnson
- they fought in 1908, Johnson won easily
- people wanted a "great white hope"
- openly had relations with mainly white women
- got Jeffries to come out of retirement to fight Johnson in 1910; Johnson won
- Jeffries admitted he could have never beat Johnson
- his first wife, Etta Duryea, committed suicide in 1912
- married a white prostitute 3 months later to not be prosecuted for the
Mann act
- prosecuted in 1913 for taking a prostitute named Belle Schreibe who he
brought across a state line
SEGREGATION/JIM CROW LAWS
✣ after Reconstruction, blacks were gaining ground in
American society
✣ Southern Whites afraid
✣ used "black bull" concept to create Jim Crow laws
✣ Jim Crow = black man
✣ "separate but equal" was paired with this
✣ 1890 was first Crow law; Louisiana passed a law that didn't
allow blacks and whites to ride trains together
✣ afterwards the laws began popping up everywhere in the
south
✣ couldn't even live in the same neighborhood
✣ Mobile, Alabama even had a 10 P.M. Curfew for blacks
Historians on jack johnson
✣ Jeffrey Green- thinks that Johnson was a wild, flamboyant figure that
challenged society
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