Posted by 3ShelbyJ on September 20, 2011 at 10:32am
-Explain what people did for entertainment in the late 1800's and early 1900's. p.297As 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.The Roller coaster drew daredevil customers to Coney Island in 1884. The first Ferris Wheel drew crowds to the Worlds Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.Bicycling was first a male-only sport.Hershey chocolate bar, first sold in 1990, Coco-Cola came out the same time originally to cure headaches.The nations earliest form of a shopping center opened in Cleveland, Ohio in 1890.in 1911, the Woolworth chain boasted 596 stores and sold more than a million dollars a week.by 1910, about 10 million Americans shopped by mail. In 1896 the Post Office introduced a rural free delivery(RFD) system that braought packages directly to every home.
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