Problem and Solution
What was the solution to crowding?
Skyscrapers, city planning, and parks.
Entertainment- AP
Amusement Parks
Mass Culture- PE
Public education
Push factor- P
Persecution
Pull factors- R&PF
Religious and political freedom
What was the solution to poor housing?
Building codes.
Entertainment- OS
Outdoor shows
Mass Culture- A
Advertising
Push Factor- EH
Economic hardship
Pull factor- CL
Cheap land
What was the solution to danger?
Streetlights and police forces.
Entertainment- TCC
The Chautauqua Circuit
Mass Culture- DS & MOC
Department stores and mail order catalogs
Push factor- LOJ
Lack of jobs
Pull factor- FJ
Factory jobs
What was the solution for the potential for fire.
Electric lights and fire departments.
Entertainment- VS
Vaudeville shows
Mass Culture- PF
Prepackaged foods
Push Factors- W
War
Pull factor- FITUS
Family in the United States
Public health departments.
Entertainment- MT
Movie theaters
Mass Culture- N
Newspapers
Bonus: A novelist who satirized American life in his 1873 novel, The Gilded Age.
Mark Twain
Bonus: The last decades of the nineteenth century were known as...
The Gilded Age