Education and Leisure

1. Education and Leisure By Bodhi Perea, Kaylee Dabel, Braeden Boothe, Drake Canfield

2. Growth Of Public Education • After the French and American Revolutions government found it important to educate all people. • Industry wanted to have people he knew how to read and write, along with above average workers. Military also was one of many to want people who were educated. • After 1870 government in Western Europe and America now required education for children. • In America individual states controlled the schooling, along with taxes to support them. • Science became a new subject for study.

3. Education for Women • • Most of the upper class children went on to study in high school and usually attended college. • • By the end of the 1800’s many schools offered education for girls but secondary education was very limited. • •People argued some subjects were not suited for proper women. • •Few colleges admitted women as students during the 1800’s. • •America, Great Britain, and France’s secondary schooling for women focused greatly on language.

4. Effects of Education • Since the spread of education more people have started to get involved in the government and are started to learn more about current issues and such. • Because more people of all ages could read they could start printing more newspapers and magazines for the public so those companies started to grow. • Newspapers were not very widely spread before the 1800s became more popular and important. • They started to cover different topics like, politics, foreign affairs, and art and science

5. Sports • There had been people participating in athletic events since the ancient times. • During the 1800’s more sports were starting to be adapted. • In Great Britain, “foot ball” known as soccer in the United States was more adapted, rugby and American football adapted for soccer. • The 1860’s is when the London Football association drew up rules for the games of soccer and rugby. By the mid 1880’s many soccer and rugby players in England were full time athletes. • Football clubs for working-class people created in the 1870’s. By that time, laws in England granted factory workers Saturday afternoon and Sunday as rest days.

6. Walter Camp He adapted rugby into an early form of the game known as American football in the United States. A professional league was set up in 1920. Born April 7, 1859 and died March 14, 1925 He was an American football player, coach, and sports writer and is aka the “father of football”. Was born in New Britain, Connecticut.

7. Concert Halls, Museums, Libraries • •Vaudeville: consisted of light, comical skits that combined music, dialogue, dancing, and singing. • •When everything started to grow then it was almost a command to put in concert halls so that they could have a combination of Musical performances and comic entertainment • •During the 1800’s in the United States Vaudeville became extremely popular in cities and in towns • •But after the a while after the 1800’s the art and the music became more available to the people • Demanded parks and recreation. • Many cities had playgrounds.

8. Test questions • What became a new subject to study? • Did people reading make the newspaper companies richer in ways? • : What is Vaudeville? • What did Walter Camp Do?