HAPPY Monday
It is great to see you today!
DO NOW
 In
December 5, 2011
the early 1900 most people spent their
free time/leisure time enjoying
amusement parks, bicycling, tennis and
spectator sports. How do we spent our
free time today? 5lines
HOMEWORK
ANNOUNCEMENTS
DO NOW REVIEW
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Pair Share your do Now response!
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Our goal is to analyze the spread of
mass culture in the United States at
the turn of the 20th century
LEARNING GOALS
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Our goal is to give example of turn of
the 20th century leisure and popular
sports
Learning
Goals are the
purpose of
our lesson. As
you advance
in this course,
the goals
should
become
easier and
easier to
achieve. If
you ever
wonder why
we are doing
something in
class, take a
look at the
learning goals
and think
about how our
activity might
help you
achieve our
goals.
TODAY WE
WILL:
Listen: Dawn of a
Mass Culture Notes
 Questions, Comments,
Concerns
 Class Closing
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DAWN OF A MASS CULTURE
CHAPTER 8 SECTION 4
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Use of machines allowed workers at the turn of
the century to do jobs faster. This led to a shorter
work week and more leisure time….. SOOOO,
what kinds of things did they do?
WRAP UP– “WHAT’S IT LIKE IN 1900?”
1. (He brought innovations to the newspaper. He came up with the comics, the
sports section, women's news, and a large Sunday edition. Who was he?)_____.
(William Randolph Hearst; Joseph Pulitzer; Alfred Nobel; Sun Yat Sin)
2. (It was characterized by gritty realism and no frills. This American style of art
was led by a guy named Robert Henri, who had been taught by Thomas Eakins,
who attempted to portray life as it really was. This art was known as -)_____.
(Realism School; Ashcan School; Gritty School; Cynicism Movement)
3. (This was prevalent in the Southwestern U.S. It was a system whereby the poor
worker, often a minority, would borrow money from his/her employer, and work
off the debt, only the wage was not enough to pay the debt off - ever. This system
sort of put people into slavery. It was called -)_____. (Tenement debt; Slumming;
Debt Peonage; slavery; Debt Ownership)
4. (Based on Rounders! Modernized by Alexander Cartwright in 1845! 50 teams by
1850! First professional team in 1869! In its first championship, the Pilgrims
beat the Pirates in 1903! What is it?)_____ (baseball; basketball; football;
LaCrosse; ice hockey;
rugby)
8-4 WARM-UP
1. What do you enjoy doing in your free time?
2. How do the leisure activities you choose to
participate in have an impact on American culture
(by the way… what does “culture” mean)?
3. How would you describe American culture today?
100 years ago?
CORNELL NOTES
Section Notes
Topic (What am I taking notes on?): The Dawn
Chapter # 8
Section #: 4
What I already know about this topic
is…
of a Mass Culture
New Vocabulary (to look up later):
Questions/Main
Ideas/ Vocabulary
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What kinds of
things did we do
during our leisure
in the early
1900s?
Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences
Amusement Parks
 Bicycling
 Tennis
 Snack food became popular
 Professional Sports
 Newspapers became popular
 Vaudeville theatre
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Questions/Main
Ideas/ Vocabulary
Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences
JOSEPH
PULITZER
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Owner of the New York World
Newspaper
 Introduced a large Sunday edition
which included comics, sports, &
women’s news.
Questions/Main
Ideas/ Vocabulary

William
Randolph
Hearst
Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences
Owned the New York Morning
Journal & the San Francisco
Examiner
 Hearst tried to outdo Pulitzer by
publishing exaggerated & made up
stories.
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Questions/Main
Ideas/ Vocabulary
Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences
DIME NOVELS
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Light fiction like “dime novels”
became popular as more people read
books
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Questions/Main
Ideas/ Vocabulary
Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences
Mark Twain
(Samuel Clemens)
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Novelist and humorist who wrote
books that have become American
classics: The adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
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Questions/Main
Ideas/ Vocabulary
Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences
PROMOTING
FINE ARTS

By 1900, free circulating Public
libraries numbered in the
thousands
 By 1900, most major cities had
art galleries
 In the early 20th century, the
Ashcan School of American Art
painted urban life
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Questions/Main
Ideas/ Vocabulary
Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences
SHOPPING!
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As cities grew, shopping centers
emerged.
 DEPARTMENT STORES were a
new type of store which offered a
wide range of goods
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Questions/Main
Ideas/ Vocabulary
Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences
Marshall Field
of Chicago

America’s 1st department store
 Field’s motto was “Give the lady
what she wants”
 Field also pioneered the “bargain
basement” concept
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Questions/Main
Ideas/ Vocabulary
Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences
F.W.
WOOLWORTH
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He started “five & dime stores”
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Questions/Main
Ideas/ Vocabulary
Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences
ADVERTIZING
BECOMES BIG

Companies filled magazines &
newspapers with ads for their
products.
 Advertisers also placed their products
on barns, houses, & billboards
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Questions/Main
Ideas/ Vocabulary
Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences
MAIL ORDER
CATALOGS
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Late 1800’s, Montgomery Ward &
Sears Roebuck introduced mailorder catalogs.
 Brought department store items
to those living outside the cities.
 By 1910, about 10 million Americans
shopped by mail.
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Questions/Main
Ideas/ Vocabulary
Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences
Rural Free
Delivery (RFD)

U.S. Post Office increased mail-order
business by starting a RFD system.
 This brought packages directly
to every home.
Questions/Main
Ideas/ Vocabulary
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Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences
CHAIN STORES
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STARTED IN
THE LATE 1800’S
Chain stores are groups of stores
owned by the same person.
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Questions/Main
Ideas/ Vocabulary
Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences
SPECTATOR
SPORTS
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AfricanAmericans form
own baseball
clubs
Boxing
 Baseball
Negro National League
 Negro American League
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Questions/Main
Ideas/ Vocabulary
Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences
The Bicycle
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The bicycle was the point that
helped woman’s rights activists
finally achieve the rational dress
movement, which liberated them
from long skirts and corsets and
other restricting garments. It seems
that with the sensual ad campaigns
and notions of equality the bicycle
was much more heavily marketed
toward woman than men.
Summary (this is what I read in my own words)
How can we say this all in one or two sentences in our
own words?
Questions, Comments, or Concerns for the good of the cause (I still
do not understand…, I wonder…):
WRAP UP 8-4
1.
(Daniel Burnham/lakefront park system; Louis Sullivan/boxing; Charles
Taylor/airplane engine; Frederick Olmstead/urban planning; George
Eastman/inexpensive camera; Wright Brothers/powered aircraft! Which
name/technological advance pairing is inaccurate?)_____
2.
("No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a
field as in writing a poem.")_____. (W.E.B. Dubois; Booker T.
Washington; Maya Angelou; Ida Wells)
3.
Poll tax! Segregation laws! Jim Crow laws! These discriminatory terms and
practices came from this political party -_____. (Democrats; Republicans;
Whigs; Know-Nothings; Supremacy; Democratic Republicans)
4.
(To summarize: How did American methods of selling goods change at the
turn of the 20th century?)_____. (vertical teaming was used; urban
marketing was used; advertising was used; tokens were used; horizontal
teaming was used; nothing really changed)
LEARNING GOALS
WHAT DID
WE LEARN TODAY?
HOW DOES THIS HELP US ACHIEVE OUR
LEARNING GOALS?
ARE
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YOU READY TO GO?
Clean-up your area
Follow classroom procedures for returning
books, computers, and folders
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Wait quietly to be dismissed
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Push in your chair
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Have your homework written, agenda out, and
ready to be signed at the door