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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. continued ✣ 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 ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ 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 Sources ✣ ¡http://classroom.synonym.com/expectations-women-victorian-society-22971.html ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ✣ ¡http://ar ¡http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Victorian_erachitecturestyles.org/gothic-revival/ ¡http://hubpages.com/style/Fashion-History-Victorian-Costume-and-Design-Trends-1837-1900-WithPictures ¡http://www.fashion-era.com/edwardian_corsetry.htm ¡http://allthingsnatalia.com/2011/08/10/women%E2%80%99s-liberation-through-dress/ ¡https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/progressiveera/settlementhouse.html ¡https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/progressiveera/statuswomenprogressive.html ¡http://www.biography.com/people/victoria-woodhull-9536447#womens-rights-activism-and-run-forthe-presidency http://www.americanyawp.com/text/20-the-progressive-era/ http://www.dukeellington.com/ellingtonbio.html http://www.mfiles.co.uk/ragtime-music.htm http://www.jeffreygreen.co.uk/042-jack-johnson-boxing-champion-in-britain http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/sports/a-century-later-jack-johnson-awaits-a-nationsabsolution.html?_r=1&referer=https://www.google.com/ http://www.dws.org/sousa/learn/timeline http://www.pbs.org/unforgivableblackness/rebel/ http://www.biography.com/people/jack-johnson-9355980 http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/beyond-the-textbook/24693 http://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/a-brief-history-of-jim-crow http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/struggle_court.html