New Dimensions in Everyday Life By: Maddie Jackson and Abbey Robertson

Overview urbanization brought great change to postwar America increased worker productivity and labor enabled urban residents to engage in newly popular leisure activities and sports why did city life have an effect on family size? new jobs opened for women as they became more educated and independent what were some issues women brought up? rural population remained as the majority up until 1920

Education Church leaders believed education was an “inalienable right owed to all” Free education Massachusetts was the leader in tightening laws Truancy Jim Crow More and more high schools were built in the last 3 decades of the 19th century “Higher Education for All” By 1910, 40% of the nation’s college students were female

Sports and Leisure average worker worked around 66 hours a week with 6 hours of free time, over the next 3 decades 10 hours of free time were gained in this free time people participated in sports and leisure activities baseball college football boxing basketball tennis and croquet were the only co-ed sports played Vaudeville show bicycling

Women in the Gilded Age Women had become college educated and longed to put their skills to work. Alcohol Frances Willard “Do Everything” policy Settlement House Movement Jane Addams College Educated women

Victorian Values in a New Age victorian values dominated social lives of men and women separate spheres of life industrialization and urbanization brought challenges to victorian values towards end of century a revolt started brewing Victoria Woodhull The Comstock Law Anthony Comstock

The Print Revolution If half of Boston’s citizens would buy a newspaper three times a week, a publisher could become a millionaire The Linotype Machine American Newspaper Subscription of women and men Elizabeth Gilmer Charles Dana New York news The print revolution affected books and magazines; the total number of books in print increased from

Quotes From Historians “In America the growth of the national state and its regulative power has never been accepted with complacency by any large part of the middle-class public, which has not relaxed its suspicion of authority, and which even now gives repeated evidence of its intense dislike of statism. In our time this growth has been possible only under the stress of great national emergencies, domestic or military, and even then only in the face of continuous resistance from a substantial part of the public. In the Progressive era it was possible only because of widespread and urgent fear of business consolidation and private business authority. Since it has become common in recent years for ideologists of the extreme right to portray the growth of statism as the result of a sinister conspiracy of collectivists inspired by foreign ideologies, it is perhaps worth emphasizing that the first important steps toward the modern organization of society were taken by arch-individualists — the tycoons of the Gilded Age — and that the primitive beginning of modern statism was largely the work of men who were trying to save what they could of the eminently native Yankee values of individualism and enterprise.” - Richard Hofstadter “Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy,which requires direct action by concerned citizens” - Howard Zinn

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