USHX 7.3 Immigrants and Cities-Society & Culture
Drill: Suburbs & Hull House
Suburb - residential neighborhoods outside of the downtown areas.
Hull House - an organization that offered help to poor people in the late 1800s.
OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to examine the new forms of popular entertainment by researching the section on Immigrants and Cities/Society & Culture.
Notes
1. Large numbers of people enjoyed “Mass Culture” activities such as:
world’s fairs, amusement parks, spectator sports, and outdoor exercise.
2. New printers made printing newspapers and magazines quicker and less costly.
3. Subject specific magazines, and newspapers with sports stories, ads, color printing, and
comics informed and entertained many readers.
4. Affordable books, local-color authors, and realist writers were popular in the late 1800s.
5. Painters were influenced by romanticism, realism, and impressionism.
6. Kodak technology made cameras cheaper and easier to use. George Eastman developed the box camera.
7. Newspapers began including photographs. Art photography was developed
8. Notably means particularly important item
9. A craze is an activity that is done with exaggerated enthusiasm
10. Humble is a virtue and means that an individual know their own weaknesses.
11. Samuel Clemens local-color writer who used the name Mark Twain
12. Winslow Homer painted unsentimental watercolors of rural life in New England
13. Horatio Alger wrote novels about young men who rose from poverty to wealth through hard work and honesty
14. Louisa May Alcot is the author of Little Women
15. Jacob Riis was a news photographer who took realistic pictures of urban life and slums
16. John Singer Sargent Jr. was famous American portrait painter who worked mainly in Europe
Summary: In today’s lesson, we examine the new forms of popular entertainment like attending World’s fairs, amusement parks, spectator sports like baseball and football, participatory sports like bicycling, swimming, hiking, boating, golf, tennis, reading, and photography.
Homework: Mass Culture & Realism
Mass Culture: leisure and cultural activities experienced by large numbers of people
Realism: writing that concentrates on presenting accurate images of American society.
Name ______Class ______Date ______
USHX 7.3 Immigrants and Cities-Society & Culture
Some terms to understand:
• notably (223):
• craze (224):
• humble (225):
EVALUATING INFORMATION Mark each statement T if it is true or F if it is false.
______1. Mass culture is leisure and cultural activities shared by large numbers of people.
______2. Americans had to travel to foreign countries to visit world’s fairs.
______3. The Chicago Exposition was strictly devoted to educational exhibits.
______4. Amusement parks, such as those on Coney Island, were very popular.
______5. Padded gloves and catcher’s masks were important safety innovations in baseball.
______6. Football became a popular professional sport in the late 1800s.
______7. Newspapers were not willing to include stories about sports teams.
______8. In the late 1800s women became more active in sports and outdoor exercise.
UNDERSTANDING MAIN IDEAS For each of the following, write the letter of the best choice in the space provided.
______1. What invention led to a dramatic increase in daily newspapers?
a. bloomers
b. the Ferris Wheel
c. the linotype
d. bicycles
______2. Some of the biggest newspaper advertisers were
a. department stores.
b. baseball teams.
c. immigrants.
d. photographers.
______3. Which two publishers competed for readers in the late 1890s?
a. Mark Twain and Sarah Orne Jewett
b. George Eastman and Jacob Riis
c. Edith Wharton and Henry James
d. Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst
______4. Magazines and daily newspapers became powerful cultural forces in the United States because they
a. ran political advertisements.
b. shaped Americans’ world views.
c. donated money to public libraries and museums.
d. increased people’s participation in sports and exercise.
ORGANIZING INFORMATION Complete the table by selecting the name of a person from the following list and writing it next to the correct description.
Samuel Clemens Louisa May Alcott Horatio Alger Jr.
Alfred Stieglitz George Eastman Jacob Riis
Winslow Homer John Singer Sargent Theodore Dreiser
NAME DESCRIPTION
1. ______developed the box camera
2. ______naturalist author of Sister Carrie
3. ______local-color writer who used the name Mark Twain
4. ______painted unsentimental watercolors of rural life in New England
5. ______wrote novels about young men who rose from poverty to wealth through hard work and honesty
6. ______leader in art photography
7. ______author of Little Women
8. ______news photographer who took realistic pictures of urban life and slums
9. ______American portrait painter who worked mainly in Europe
Summary: Name two types of mass culture that became popular in the late 1800s.