1. City Living Essential Question: What were some benefits of city living?

2. Types of entertainments Dance and music halls Roller skating rinks Theaters Retail stores

3. Entertainment Opera house and symphony orchestras Museums Circus “Moving pictures”- Thomas Edison 1880s – Rise of movies

5. Popular Sports Baseball – 1876: National League started – American League followed shortly after – First World Series 1903 Basketball – Invented by James Naismith 1891 – Needed an indoor game/winter sport

6. Popular Sports Football – Take off of rugby (English) – 1869- First college football game ever played Golf TennisFOR WEALTHY Bicycling

8. How did city people spend their time? Restaurants Public libraries Convenient stores Museums, concert halls, sporting events

9. How Did People Travel? By foot (walking) Carriage Trolleys- pulled by horses – Carried 10-15 people at a time – Became known as streetcars in America

10. Negatives of Travel & Rapid City Growth GARBAGE! – Garbage lay in streets– no landfill – Horse manure lay in streets – Insufficient sewer system to handle human waste DISEASE! – Whooping cough, diphtheria, measles, tuberculosis

11. Streetcars Invention of electric motor = electric streetcar Able to carry 45 people at one time Electricity from overhead wires

13. How Did Streetcars Influence City Growth? Houses and business along routes Ran on scheduled times Inexpensive Allowed people to commute to work and travel within the city.

14. Emergence of the Subway Subway- underground transportation Boston 1897- first subway in America New York 1904- subway opened

16. Problems in the City Let’s review tenement living. 1). Cheap housing urban poor and immigrants 2). Noisy 3). Dirty 4). Poor ventilation 5). Dark 6). No/few fire escapes

17. Does your brain feel like this??

18. Or do you feel like this?

19. WORK TIME!! Answer these questions – 1). What forms of transportation were used in cities? – 2). Which spectator sports were started at this time? – 3). Why were tenement buildings needed? – 4). Compare city life in the 1890s to city life today. How is it the same? How is it different?