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Music - There were no radios back then so you had to go to an opera house.

Movies - Buffalo Dance, Blacksmith scenes, Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge.

Baseball - Was a huge sport. The ball was a brownish black color.

Football - Was also another big sport. They didn't have face masks and the balls weren't that good.

World Fairs - 1883, 1884, 1889

Fashion - Women wore dresses and men wore hats and suits.

Fads - Roller Skating

Famous People - Billy the Kid, Mark Twain, Buffalo Bill

Politics and Presidents - Prohibition stared in Kansas, Wall Street, North/South Dakota and Montana, James Garfield was shot.

Interesting - Statue of Liberty, first buffet, Dr Pepper, Coca Cola, cattle market in South St. Paul

Inventions - Electric flat iron, electric fan, first dishwasher, coca cola

minorities- the white people were very racist to the minorities they separated the whites from the blacks 

Economy- most jobs were 25 cents an hour there were 60 hours in there week 

railroads  were huge for the south 

1890'2

Sports-

American football, professional began in 1892, touchdowns were 1 points, many deaths occurs 

 

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