The 1890s

Hope Arana & Najae Reynolds

Social Changes

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 Social Changes: Women’s Fashion

▪ Considered more practical, simpler,

and easier to wear compared to
clothes in the decades before

▪ Typical everyday fashion consisted

of a shirtwaist/blouse and a
“swooping tulip of bell form” skirt

▪ Activewear included “donned white

or navy blue tops with sailor-like
braid on a deep square sailor collar
and long, black silk sailor ties

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Social Changes: Basketball

▪ The first women’s basketball game

was played in 1892; University of
California vs. Miss Head's School

▪ College basketball began in the

1890’s, the first game being at
Madison Square Garden in New
York

▪ The mandatory team size of five

players was set in 1897

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 Social Changes: Dracula

▪ Written in 1897 by Irish author Bram

Stoker

▪ Tells the story of vampire Dracula’s

“attempt to move from Transylvania
to England so that he may find new
blood and spread the undead curse,
and of the battle between Dracula
and a small group of men and a
woman led by Professor Abraham
Van Helsing.”

▪ Though it was not an immediate

bestseller, Dracula soon became a
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Political Changes

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 Political Changes: The Panic of 1893

▪ Philadelphia and Reading

Railroads bankruptcy due to
expanding too rapidly

▪ Pushed the Sherman Silver

Purchase Act (exchanging
silver for gold)

▪ By 1894 the economy was in

depression with 18%
unemployment

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Political Changes: The Sherman Antitrust Act

▪ The first federal act that

outlawed monopolies

▪ If violated there was a fee of

$5000 and a year of jail

▪ It was still used later on and

even against Microsoft despite
being 100 years old

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 Political Changes: The Sherman Purchase Act

▪ Due to the Panic of 1893

▪ The secretary of treasury

would purchase 4.5 million oz.
of silver

▪ Pressured both miners and

farmers to work

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Historical Changes

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Historical Changes: Spanish American War

▪ America had a long interest with

Cuba before the war was ensued

▪ Conflict from newspapers in 1895

and the sinking of USS Maine

▪ After congress permission,

presented Spain with an ultimatum,
but was rejected

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 Historical Changes: Spanish American War Cont.

▪ War began on April 1898 and with

that promised not to hegemonize
Cuba

▪ The first battle was the Battle of

Manila on May 1

▪ U.S. troops attacked the San Juan

heights on July 1, 1898.

▪ Peace Treaty of Paris signed on

December 10, 1898

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Historical Changes: Wounded Knee Massacre

▪ Due to a drought in October of 1890,

the Native Americans relied on the
government

▪ The Ghost Dance and reporters

caused more tension between both
troops and Native Americans

▪ Due to the death of the Sitting Bull

and rumors spread to the Native
Americans the fled the reservation
to the Badlands on December 23

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 Historical Changes: Spanish American War Cont.

▪ 5 days later on December 28, the

troops intercepted the Native
Americans at Wounded Knee Creek

▪ The troops told the Native

Americans to put down their
firearms and to surrender

▪ Their refusal and fleeing caused the

troops to shoot at the Native
Americans causing more than 300
lives lost

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Important People

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Important People: Thomas Edison

▪ Thomas Edison was an

American inventor and
businessman that contributed
to many important inventions
in the 1890s

▪ Edison received a patent for

the two way telegraph on
August 9th, 1892

▪ Received a patent for the

kinetographic camera in 1893

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 Important People: Grover Cleveland

▪ Both the 22nd and 24th president of

the United States

▪ “Won the presidency with the

support of Democrats and reform
Republicans, the ‘Mugwumps,’ who
disliked the record of his opponent
James G. Blaine of Maine.”

▪ Signed the Interstate Commerce Act

which attempted federal regulation
of railroads

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Important People: Booker T. Washington

▪ Black eductor that was a major

figure in black public affairs and
southern race relations from 1895 to
his death

▪ Born a slave in Virginia

▪ Wrote autobiography Up From

Slavery (1901)

▪ Founded the National Negro

Business League in 1900

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Science & Technology

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 Science & Technology: The Jukebox

▪ Created in 1890 by Louis Glass

▪ Discovered by “modifying the

phonograph to be coin-operated and
provided multiple listening tubes”

▪ They were originally not that

popular, and when radios first came
out, record players and Jukeboxes
disappeared.

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Science & Technology: Escalators

▪ Created by Jesse W. Reno in 1892

▪ Nathan Ames and Leamon Souder

had originally patented for
escalator-like devices, but failed to
create working models

▪ The first escalator was installed

along the Old Iron Pier at Coney
Island in New York City in 1896

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 Science & Technology

▪ The first electric kettle was

introduced by The Carpenter
Electric Company of Chicago in 1891

▪ Originally, the electric kettle

contained a separate compartment
beneath the water that held a heating
element

▪ Originally created for British tea

drinkers

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