Posted by 3ShelbyJ on September 19, 2011 at 10:33am
Ch. 8.4:-Explain what people did for entertainment in the late 1800's and early 1900's.As the 19th century drew closer, many americans fought off city congestion and dull industrail work by enjoying amusement parks, bicycling, new forms of theather, and spectator sports.in 1845 Alexander J. Cartwright, an amatuer player, organzied a lub in NYC and set down regulations that used aspects if an English sport called rounders. 50 baseball clubs had sprung up in the united states and New York alone boasted 12 clubs in the mid-1860s.As increasing numbers of Americans attended school and learned to read, the cultural vistas orinary Americans expanded. Art galleries, libraries, book, and museums brought new cultural opportunties to more poeple.
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