Study Guide #5
The White City

Progressives & Class
Progressivism
McKinley assasination
Theodore Roosevelt
TR’s Square Deal:
	Consumer Protection
	Environment
	Anti-monopoly
	Labor reform
8 Hour Workday
Child Labor Laws
“Free time”
Social classes:
Elite
	Upper Class
	Middle Class
	Working Class
“Free time”
Carter Harrison Jr.
Jane Addams
Hull House (settlement house)
Charles Yerkes & his monopoly
Edward F. Dunne
“Middle Class Family Values”
Carl Sandburg
Chicago Poems 1916

Chicago at Play
Conspicuous Consumption
Circuses: Buffalo Bill’s Show
Ringling Bros.
Annie Oakley	
Columbian Expo of 1894
	(World’s Fair)
Burnham’s Classical plan for fair
“Windy City” & “Second City”
Annexation
People of the World Display
Tesla vs. Edison at the fair
Ferris Wheel
Burnham Plan
Small Parks Movement
Jens Jenson
Playgrounds
Midway Plaisance
Grant,  Lincoln,  Jackson 
“Forever free of buildings”

“Sports”
The “sport” in culture
Gambling in Chicago
National Police Gazette
Mike McDonald’s gang
Carter Harrison Sr.
The Levee District
The First Ward
“Hinky Dink” Michael Kenna
“Bathhouse” John Couglin
Machine Politics
           Mayor
             Committeeman – Alderman
             Precinct Captain
Patronage
Glass Ballot boxes
Assassination of Harrison
Protection Money
“Diamond” Jim Colosimo
The Chicago Outfit
Mickey Finn
D.L. Moody
Midnight Missions
Everleigh Club
Brothel
Harrison Jr.’s Vice Commission

Athletics & Race
Jack Johnson
DuBois vs. Washington
Garveyism
White supremacy
John L. Sullivan
Heavyweight Champion Title
“Cap” Adrian Anson
Blacks banned from baseball
White Stockings Club
National League of Baseball
“The Strenuous Life”
Country Clubs
Gymnastics Clubs
1906 World Series
American League’s White Sox
Black Sox Scandal

Things to Review
Pacyga pp. 138-143, 150-182
Unforgiveable Blackness clips
Ken Burns’ Baseball clips
Class notes
QoDs and Opens

a)	How was the theory of evolution related to the progressive worldview?
b)	Explain the differences between the four social classes in depth.
c)	Which social class had the most people?
d)	How did the 8 Hour Workday change America?
e)	How did Dunne improve life for Chicagoans? Evaluate his actions with teachers, KKK, utilities, unions.
f)	What were popular amateur and professional athletics of the day?
g)	How did small parks promote democracy?
h)	How does the Chicago Machine work?
i)	Why did Jack Johnson have such a hard time in the spotlight?
j)	How is progressivism related to racism?
k)	Was baseball as “pure” a sport as people assumed?
l)	Why was crime allowed to reign in the First Ward?