Movies/Theater/Music
____________ were the most important form of entertainment before radio and television.
Movies
The two spectator sports that arose in this era were...
baseball and football.
"Going out" and seeing other people for leisure doubled as __________ and _________.
entertainment; community
Who created patriotic songs like "Yankee doodle dandy" and "you're a grand old flag ?
George M. Cohan
Spectator sports began to become popular in America...
after the Civil War.
OR
in the late 1800s.
_________ _________ wrote about the societal transition from an scarcity of goodness and leisure to an abundance of it.
Simon Patten
Ethnic communities created their own theatres to preserve their own _____________.
Culture
The first World Series was played in... (year)
1903.
After what Revolution did leisure start to become popular?
Industrial Revolution
Where did vaudeville originate from?
French theatrical models
The two leagues that have made up the MLB for the past 100+ years are...
the American League and the National League.
Leisure became more popular and accepted in society because it was viewed as a time for _______ reflection.
spiritual
Why did the silent film "The birth of a nation" become unpopular?
It became unpopular for its racist portrayal of African American's and its celebration of the Ku Klux Klan.
Who was a key figure at the university of Chicago?
Amos Alonzo Stagg
Public leisure was typically segregated into groups of people of the same _______, ______, and ______.
class; race; gender