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Life and culture Of African Americaans During and After Reconstruction
~After a few years after reconstruction, blacks were beginning to be segregated and Discrimination was starting to be shown more clearly.
~voting rights were restricted to blacks by poll taxes, literacy test and to whether or not you owned any land
~his was when african americans were treated as second class citizens. -
Life and Culture of African Americans During and After Reconstruction Continued~
~segregation first appeared in the 1830’s and appeared later on after the reconstruction in schools, parks, public buildings, hospitals and transportation systems. then as water fountains or public toilets
~violence was another way that the whites separated the blacks, the blacks would be lynched or beaten up by an angry mob ~after years of violence, black leaders stood up and uprised -
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Life And Culture
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Growth of Public Schools
More than half of white children populating America attended public schools -
Movies
Circus train presented in 1872. The Great Train Robbery released in 1903. By 1908 the nation had 8000 nickelodeon theaters. -
The telephone
~Alexander Graham Bell applied for a patent on his invention February.
~Bell's patent, issued on 7 March, became one of the most profitable and contested patents of the nineteenth century.
~Over the next several months professors at Brown University worked to make Bell's invention smaller and more practical, and in July 1877 the Bell Telephone Company was formed -
Education
~During reconstruction, many “black” schools were formed
~accepted women as well as men -
Telephone
By 1900 there was one telephone for every one hundred people, and the device was considered an everyday convenience by more than a million Americans -
The Poison Trust
~The 1900 census reported that eighty million Americans spent a total of $59 million each year on patent medicines
~These tonics, elixirs, and syrups contained up to 80 percent alcohol and often had morphine, cocaine, or the heart stimulant Digitalis as a basic ingredient
~Many people trusted these nostrums as an inexpensive alternative to visiting doctors, and even church publications printed their advertisements -
Growth of Public Schools
~31 states required children to attend school
~72% of children attended school
