CHAPTER 16 Vocabulary HISTORY
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- vaudeville
- a type of entertainment popular chiefly in the U.S. in the early 20th century, featuring a mixture of specialty acts such as burlesque comedy, song, and dance
- James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett
- champion boxer
- Scott Joplin
- U.S Compser who was the first creator of ragtime to write down his compositions
- John Sullivan
- 1st bare knuckel boxer
- literacy test
- test in which they had to read and explain difficult parts of state constitutions or the federal constituon
- grandfather clause
- stated that even if a man failed the literacy test or could not afford the poll tax, he was still eligible to vote if he, his father, or his grandfather, had been eligible to vote before January 1, 1867
- P.T. Barnum
- the famous and unscrupulous showman, opened the American Museum in New York in 1842, not a showcase for art or nature, but a great freak show populated by midgets, Siamese twins, magicians, and ventriloquists, eventually launching his famous circus
- Abner Doublday
- baseball creator
- Jim Crow Laws
- The "separate but equal" segregation laws state and local laws enacted in the Southern and border states of the United States and enforced between 1876 and 1965
- minstrel show
- Type of nineteenth-century production featuring white performers made up in blackface.
- segregation
- Separation of blacks and whites.
- melodramas
- A drama with a romantic story or plot and sensational situation and incidents.
- Ida B. Wells
- African American journalist. published statistics about lynching, urged African Americans to protest by refusing to ride streetcards or shop in white owned stores
- poll tax
- A tax used on people rather than an item, often a requirement for voting.
- D.W. Griffith
- carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance, etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking. Motion pictures were the first truly mass entertainment medium.
- The Birth of A Nation
- 1915 motion picture; NAACP sued all over the place and film was removed; director was first to claim First Amendment protection of film
- lynching
- the illegal execution of an accused person by mob action, without due process of law.