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Changes in Cities and Culture

Changes in Cities and Culture. Chapter 10, Sections 2 & 3. America Becomes a Nation of Cities. What term was created to describe the last few decades of the nineteenth century? Who came up with this term? The Gilded Age; Mark Twain; A rotten core covered with gold paint.

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Changes in Cities and Culture

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  1. Changes in Cities and Culture Chapter 10, Sections 2 & 3

  2. America Becomes a Nation of Cities • What term was created to describe the last few decades of the nineteenth century? Who came up with this term? • The Gilded Age; • Mark Twain; • A rotten core covered with gold paint.

  3. America Becomes a Nation of Cities • What advantages did cities offer? • Opportunities in manufacturing for women; • Jobs for immigrants; • Hope for better wages • What other type of migration took pace during this time period? • Rural-to-urban migration= from farm to factory.

  4. Technology Improves City Life • How did skyscrapers improve city life? • Could provide for more people in same amount of space. • Elisha Otis= invented the safety brake used in elevators. • How did electricity change city transportation? • Electric powered mass transit used to carry large numbers of people; • Less reliance on coal.

  5. Technology Improves City Life • What was the job of a city planner? What was the biggest city planning project of the nineteenth century? • Keep cities functional and ‘pretty’ even with large #s of people; • 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.

  6. Urban Living Creates Problems • Why did immigrants live in such horrible conditions? • Tenement= low-cost multi-family housing designed to fit as many people as possible. • Needed to live close to factories because they couldn’t afford mass transit. • What problems arose in cities from the population explosion? • Poor sanitation and water; • High crime rates and conflict.

  7. Americans Become Consumers • How did the change in work lead to a change in purchasing patterns? • Workers were able to save up their wages, so they could spend more greater disposable income!

  8. Americans Become Consumers • What new tool emerged to attract customers? How did it reflect standard of living? • Advertising; • As the overall standard of living improved, people felt comfortable spending more.

  9. Mass Culture • Identify the changes that occurred in the following areas of mass culture: • Newspaper • Joseph Pulitzer= World and Evening World publisher. • William Randolph Hearst= Morning Journal • Both believed that newspapers should inform and stir up controversy sensationalist

  10. Mass Culture • Literature • Authors took a critical look at society and its problems. • Horatio Alger and other authors wrote about characters who succeeded with hard work. • Education • Changes in curriculum to encourage students to take specialized courses; • Specialized courses in college, too.

  11. New Forms of Popular Entertainment • What new forms of entertainment emerged at the turn of the twentieth century? • Amusement parks; • Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show • Vaudeville shows musical dramas; • Spectator sports like baseball and boxing.

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