Changing Culture

Expanding Education• The “Treasure”

becomes compulsory

• High schools increase

• Male vs. Female• Minorities• Progressive

education

Changing Education

Higher Education– Land Grant Colleges

• Federal Land– Given to states– Sold or developed to

raise money for education

• Examples: Penn State, Michigan State, Rutgers

– African American Schools• Howard University• Hampton Institute

– Vocational School» Teach skilled trades

– Booker T. Washington (Graduate of Hampton)

» Founder of Tuskegee Institute (also vocational school)

Changing Culture

Higher Education– George Washington Carver

• Teacher @ Tuskegee Institute

• Transforms farming in South

• Develops hundreds of products from the peanut

– Schools for Native Americans• Reservation Schools

– Purpose: train Native Americans for jobs

– Result: isolate (cut off) Native Americans from tribal traditions.

Changing Culture

Changes in Literature– Writers: explore

new themes • Realism: describe

lives of people• Regionalism/local

color: focus on particular region (including characters, dialects)– Example: Tom

Sawyer

Changing Culture

Spreading the News– Joseph Pulitzer

• New York World Newspaper

• Contents of Paper– Cartoons– Illustrations– Sensational Stories

-William Randolph Hearst– Imitates Pulitzer– Newspaper: The

Morning Journal– Yellow Journalism

• Exaggerating dramatic aspects of stories

Changing Culture

Leisure & the Arts• Spectator Sports

-Purpose= Leisure Time-Baseball-Football-Basketball

• Musicians-Jazz-Ragtime

Changing Culture

Movies and Vaudeville

• Nickelodeon-Movie Theaters

-5 cents

• Vaudeville-Variety shows

(dancing, singing, comedy, magic acts)

-Common for lower class citizens to enjoy as well as wealthy