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