the gilded age
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The Gilded Age. Cultural Focus 1865-1912 Effect on Women With highlights from Kate Chopin’s The Awakening By Hedy Laverdiere. The Gilded Age was an era of extreme wealth juxtaposed with extreme poverty. Click. (William Merritt Chase). The RICH. Click. (William Merritt Chase). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Gilded AgeCultural Focus1865-1912
Effect on WomenWith highlights from
Kate Chopin’s
The Awakening
By Hedy Laverdiere
The Gilded Age was an era of
extreme wealth juxtaposed with extreme poverty.
(William Merritt Chase)
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The RICH
(William Merritt Chase)
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For a fascinating glimpse into Mrs. Astor’s High Society, click the photo.
(Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor), (The Gilded Age).
1892, William Vanderbilt’s Marble House in Newport, RI. A summer “cottage” presented as a gift to his wife. (Newport Mansions: The Guilded Age. )
1895, Cornelius Vanderbilt’s The Breakers in Newport, RI. (Newport Mansions)
1898, Rosecliff was built for Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs in Newport, RI. (Newport Mansions)(Gilded Age)
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The POOR
(The History Place: Child Labor in America 1908-1912 )
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(The History Place: Child Labor in America 1908-1912 )
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(Jacob Riis )
Click the PHOTO for details on the characters in The Awakening. Click the TITLE for the etext of The Awakening.
(Kate Chopin: A Woman Ahead of Her Time)
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“The ladies spent their time promenading on the sea front, visiting reading-rooms and libraries, shopping, enjoying rural carriage-rides, holding ‘At Homes’, musical soirées and dinner parties” (Victorianweb.org)
(William Merritt Chase)
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The Gold Rush of the previous period from 1850-1860’s spurred the movement west.
1865Native Americans attack the would-be railroad town of Julesburg, Colorado to retaliate for Sand Creek.
President Lincoln asks senator Oakes Ames to assist in managing the Union Pacific Railroad.
On April 9th, the Civil War ends. Five days later, President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated.
6000 Chinese men, 80% of the crew, begin hand-drilling twelve tunnels across the Sierra Nevada for the Central Pacific railroad. (One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage: An Overview)
(William Merritt Chase)
1866The American Equal Rights Association was formed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, whose goal was universal suffrage for white and black women and black men. (One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage: An Overview)
(William Merritt Chase)
“The local paper listed weekly the arrivals and departures of visitors and the address at which they were staying. These names were listed in order of social prestige and almost always headed by one or two titled persons.” (Victorianweb.org)
(William Merritt Chase)
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Click the photos for
links to each
suffragist.
(Not For Ourselves Alone), (The Lucretia Coffin Mott Papers Project),(Carrie Chapman Catt Girlhood Home)
1868 . . .The first passenger train travels across the Sierra Nevada into Reno.
Ratification of the 14th Amendment, which provides protections of all citizens of the Constitution against unjust state laws, yet defines "citizens" and "voters" as "male.“(One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage: An Overview)
(Central Pacific Railroad No. 1 Gov. Stanford)
“The rich socialized only with others of their class, but lived in constant domestic and trade contact with the working class.” (Victorianweb.org)
(William Merritt Chase)
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1868Native American leader Red Cloud leads uprisings called “Red Cloud’s War”. The leader forces the military to remove themselves from the Bozeman Trail before he will sign the Powder River Treaty. The treaty guaranteed the Sioux their hunting ground forever. Red Cloud is considered to be the only native leader to have won a war with the United States. The treaty is violated in 1889. (One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage: An Overview)
Blue Cloud Abbey Native American Photograph Collection
1869Due to the 14th Amendment ratification, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B.
Anthony form the more radical, New York-based National Woman Suffrage Association. The more conservative American Woman Suffrage Association is
also formed by Julia Ward Howe, Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell. (One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage: An Overview)
(By Popular Demand: Votes for Women’s Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920)
“Well-to-do ladies provided work for hundreds of tradeswomen such as milliners, staymakers, straw-hat makers, furriers and dressmakers, laundresses and ironers. The wealthy usually had a set of live-in servants and sometimes day-servants too.” (Victorianweb.org)
(William Merritt Chase)
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1870The 15th Amendment gives the right to vote to black men. NWSA argues for a 16th Amendment providing universal suffrage. (Slavery), (One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage: An Overview)