Education
Reading
Plays Or Movies
Sports
Music Or Artists
100
What was the standard amount of years before the expansion of education.
4 years.
100
Why were more people able to read?
More people had the education to read.
100
What was a very popular play to be seen?
Vaudeville
100
What was the most popular watched and played game?
Baseball
100
At first all of the styles of music was from what Continent.
Europe
200
What was the percent of 5 to 17 year olds attending school in 1914?
80%
200
What is the term referring to stories in a certain region?
Regionalism.
200
Who help contribute to the moving pictures?
Thomas Edison
200
What sport was American football made from?
Rugby
200
What kind of music did the African Americans develope.
Jazz
300
Why were the majority of high school students girls?
Boys went off to work.
300
What is the term of which newspaper publishers would exaggerate or have the title seem larger than life?
Yellow journalism.
300
What was another attraction that people saw all the time?
The circus.
300
Who was the inventor of basketball?
Dr. James Naismith
300
What kind of music was related to Jazz?
Ragtime
400
What is “progressive learning”?
Learning by doing instead of reading.
400
Why would writers use the style of yellow journalism?
To draw in more readers.
400
What are the 4 things the shows tried to feature?
Comedy, Dancing, Singing, and Magic.
400
At this time newer bicycles had two even sized rubber wheels. What did bikes look like before these were made, and what were they called?
A “Safety Bicycle”
400
What did Frederic Remington portray in his drawings?
The old American West.
500
What is the main idea of “Expanding Education”?
The US was expanding the education system.
500
What is the main idea of “A Nation of Readers”?
As education rose, more people read literature.
500
Why did the people find all of these new attractions?
They had never seen them before because they hadn’t gotten the chance or time from working.
500
Why was all of the sports suddenly being played?
The people in the factories had more free time to play sports.
500
Artists and musicians were creating new kinds of music. Why were they able to start working on these?
They could work on these because of the time they got, and they could easily branch off of the other kinds of music.