Urban Problems
Problem: Crowding
Solution: Skyscrapers, city planning, parks
Entertainment (AP)
Amusement Parks
Mass Culture: (PE)
Public Education
Push Factors
Land reform and low prices forced many farmers off their land, repeated wars and political revolutions, religious persecution
Conspicuous Consumerism
People wanted and bought the many new products on the market
Problem: Poor housing
Solution: Building Codes
Entertainment (OS)
Outdoor shows
Mass Culture: (A)
Advertising
Pull factors
Special attractions (plentiful land and employment), western farmland was inexpensive, joining friends and family, promise of religious and political freedom
Vaudeville
A medley of musical drama, songs, and off-color comedy
Problem: Danger
Solution: Streetlights and police forces
Entertainment (TCC)
The Chautauqua Circuit
Mass Culture: (PF)
Prepackaged Foods
Mark Twain
A novelist that satirized American life in his novel, The Gilded Age
Urbanization
The number of cities and people living in them increased dramatically
Problem: Potential for Fire
Solution: Electric lights and fire departments
Entertainment (VS)
Vaudeville shows
Mass Culture: (N)
Newspapers
Gilded Age
The last decades of the nineteenth century where middle-class Americans adopted a new life style of shopping, sports, and reading popular magazines and newspapers
Mass Transit
Public systems that could carry large numbers of people fairly inexpensively
Problem: Poor Sanitation
Solution: Public-health departments
Entertainment: (MT)
Movie Theaters
Mass Culture: (FPC)
Factory-produced clothing
Mass Culture
The phenomenon where Americans all across the country became more and more alike in their consumption patterns
Suburb
Housing in the cleaner, quieter perimeter of the city