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
______ 5. Padded gloves and catcher’s masks were
activities shared by large numbers of people.
important safety innovations in baseball.
______ 2. Americans had to travel to foreign
______ 6. Football became a popular professional
countries to visit world’s fairs.
sport in the late 1800s.
______ 3. The Chicago Exposition was strictly
______ 7. Newspapers were not willing to include
devoted to educational exhibits.
stories about sports teams.
______ 4. Amusement parks, such as those on Coney
______ 8. In the late 1800s women became more
Island, were very popular.
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
a. Mark Twain and Sarah Orne Jewett
in daily newspapers?
b. George Eastman and Jacob Riis
a. bloomers
c. Edith Wharton and Henry James
b. the Ferris Wheel
d. Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst
c. the linotype
______ 4. Magazines and daily newspapers became
d. bicycles
powerful cultural forces in the United States because
______ 2. Some of the biggest newspaper advertisers
they
were
a. ran political advertisements.
a. department stores.
b. shaped Americans’ world views.
b. baseball teams.
c. donated money to public libraries and museums.
c. immigrants.
d. increased people’s participation in sports and
d. photographers.
exercise.
______ 3. Which two publishers competed for
readers in the late 1890s?
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.