The Schoolhouse Boom
By the time of the Civil War, what proportion of the nation's white children attended school?
What is more than half?
What two main factors drove the growth of literacy rates across the United States between 1870 and 1900?
What is the expansion of public common schools and the introduction of state compulsory attendance laws?
What is the collective name given to the elite private women's colleges that opened during this era?
What is the Seven Sisters College?
What rapid-fire mix of comedians, magicians, jugglers, and musicians was considered the undisputed king of affordable entertainment?
What are the Vaudeville variety acts?
In 1870, what microscopic percentage of 17-year-olds actually graduated from high school?
What is 2%?
Which geographic region lagged behind in basic literacy rates due to less developed public school systems?
What is the South?
Who is explicitly named in the slides as one of the first female college presidents during this period?
Who is Frances Willard?
Why did electric trolley companies build amusement parks at the very end of their transit lines?
What is to encourage weekend trips?
During the 1870s, what were the only months of the year that children typically attended school?
What is November to April?
Despite massive systemic barriers, African American community and home schooling efforts cut Black illiteracy from 80 percent in 1870 down to what percentage by 1900?
What is 44.5%?
Between 1870 and 1900, the number of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) grew from 22 to over what number?
What is more than 90?
What massive spectacle traveled the country by train to show off idealized versions of frontier life?
What is Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show?
By 1910, school attendance among American children reached what percentage?
What is 72%?
By the turn of the century, the national adult illiteracy rate dropped from roughly 20 percent down to what range?
What is 11-13%?
Due to systemic racism and a lack of secondary pipelines, how many Black women held full baccalaureate degrees by 1890?
What is about 30 women?
Moving pictures originally started as brief novelties in penny arcade peep-shows called what?
What are kinetoscopes?