1. A nswer the following in your notes: (1) Page 233: How did urbanization and industrialization lead to the rise of popular culture? What are the forms of entertainment mentioned? (2) Pages 238 & 239: What are some of the ways mentioned to improve the lives of the urban poor?

2. In response to the short video clip called “Just the Facts: The Emergence of Modern – the Gilded Age” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCZtNE3g_sQ - (13:17 – 16:48): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCZtNE3g_sQ - (1) What is stated about “Victorian” culture? (2) What were the forms of entertainment mentioned during the Gilded Age?

3. Project Question : Did average Americans benefit from Industrialization and Urbanization? Why or why not?

4. A nswer the following in your notes: (1) Page 233: How did urbanization and industrialization lead to the rise of popular culture? What are the forms of entertainment mentioned? (2) Pages 238 & 239: What are some of the ways mentioned to improve the lives of the urban poor?

5. Student Learning Targets Students will understand: – Growth in electricity – Rise in “leisure culture” and popular forms of entertainment – Efforts to help the urban poor.

6. Age of Electricity Assembly Lines Factory Lighting Electric street cars Soon, other advances because of electricity

7. The average work week declines: – 69.7 hours per week in 1860 (includes farming) – 61.7 hours in 1890 – 54.9 hours in 1910 Less polluted and safer working / living conditions More consistent form of energy generation Longer days of activity!! Benefits from Electricity

8. “The Factory Belt” now “The Rust Belt”

10. Urbanization and the “New” Industrial Revolution of late 1800’s transformed American life, providing for “leisure time” giving rise to “popular entertainment.” Rise of Popular Entertainment Baseball in the 1890’s

11. Rise of Popular Entertainment People divide their time between “work and going home” and “going out.” Amusement Parks Vaudeville and ragtime “Saloon Culture” New York’s Coney Island

12. The average work week declines: – From 1860 to 1910, a decline of 15 hrs. per week Sport was probably the largest single area of expanded leisure participation … – Tennis, archery, bowling, skating, bicycling, and team games such as baseball, basketball, and football are developed in the late 1800’s. Rise of Popular Entertainment

13. Pages 238 & 239: What are some of the ways mentioned to improve the lives of the urban poor?

14. – Social Gospel movement – Salvation Army – YMCA – Settlement Houses – Jane Addams and Hull House – “Americanization” movement