Chapter 16, S 3 4
Transcript of Chapter 16, S 3 4
Mass Culture & Mass Culture & DiscriminationDiscrimination
Chapter 16, Section 3 and 4
Today…
1. Popular ways to spend leisure time
2. Spread of mass culture through ads
3. Ways African Americans were discriminated against
ParticipationParticipation
1. What do you like to do in your spare time?
- Do you like to watch any sports?
- Do you like to go shopping anywhere?
- Do you ever ride a bicycle?
2. How would you be affected if you never got to do any of these things?
Escaping WorkEscaping Work
• Amusement Parks– Coney Island– World’s Columbian
Expedition
BicyclingBicycling
SportsSports
• Boxing
• Baseball
• Tennis
Mass ProductsMass Products
Aspirin
Hershey’s
Coca-cola
Mass ShoppingMass Shopping
• Beginning of department store– Marshall Field
• Specialized departments• Bargain bins• Appealed to women
Mass NewspapersMass Newspapers
• Began sensationalizing stories– Joseph Pulitzer competed with
William Randolph Hearst• Click to watch Newsies clip (4:45)
Advertising to the MassesAdvertising to the Masses
• Ads posted everywhere– Billboards, houses, rocks
Advertising to the MassesAdvertising to the Masses
• Catalogs– Sears Roebuck– Montgomery Ward
Participation #2Participation #2
1. Why do you think newspapers took the approaches they did? Consider some of the various changes taking place at this time.
2. How did mail-order catalogs and advertising contribute to the growth of mass culture?
DiscriminationDiscrimination
Participation #3
Everybody stand up!
Bullion, deter, denigrate, malady
$5
Grandfather born in Sandwich
Voting RestrictionsVoting Restrictions
• Literacy test
• Poll tax
• Grandfather clause
Jim Crow LawsJim Crow Laws
• Jim Crow Laws: meant to segregate white and black Americans– What kinds of places were segregated?
Plessy v. FergusonPlessy v. Ferguson
• (1896) Plessy v. Ferguson– Decision of the Supreme Court:
• Separate but equal accommodations are legal
AssignmentAssignment
• Chapter 16, Section 3 worksheet