Executive Layer, NEW Managerial Layer, Laborer Layer→dressed in white suits, called white-collar workers→need for clerical workers like accountants

↑production=↑supply=↓prices=standards of living rose as some goods became cheaper and more accessible→consumerism, excessive consumption, became common for Americans

baseball, and such, became part of a bachelor culture for males in 20s & 30s→it took years for the middle class to respect these sports

1st game of football played by two NJ colleges, Rutgers & Princeton

”P. T. Barnum's Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan & Hippodrome” founded, traveling circus that gained popularity

those who do basic office tasks, repetitive things like typing, answering calls, maintaining records, filing, and scheduling appointments→demand for these duties were filled by a new middle class

Access to Employment: Women

↑access to employment for both genders, but females were hired because they could be paid less than males, not for progressiveness: Many women learned to type Hired to teach children in late 1800s

Gradual ↓in work hours+better transport+excess time and money= began to do leisure activities→department store shopping, Vaudeville shows, bicycling, swimming

Andrew Carnegie's article "Wealth" made, said that wealthy had God-given duty to perform civic projects of philanthropy→donated $350M+ to build public institutions like libraries

Columbian Exposition/Chicago World Fair held, showing American achievement, attracting American and immigrant tourists

amusement park opened in COney Island, NY

Jim Crow Laws kept blacks from playing on all-white big-league teams

Andrew Carnegie, in his article “Wealth”said wealthy had a God-given duty to perform civic projects of philanthropy→donated $350M+ to build public institutions like libraries

Phoebe Apperson Hearst, woman suffragist, radical philanthropist, millionare, co-founded National Cathedral School in Washington, DC; she supported equal education among classes

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APUSH 6.10

Topic 6.10

Question	Answer
New Middle Class	Executive Layer, NEW Managerial Layer, Laborer Layer→dressed in white suits, called white-collar workers→need for clerical workers like accountants
Consumerism	↑production=↑supply=↓prices=standards of living rose as some goods became cheaper and more accessible→consumerism, excessive consumption, became common for Americans
Spectator Sports	baseball, and such, became part of a bachelor culture for males in 20s & 30s→it took years for the middle class to respect these sports
1869	1st game of football played by two NJ colleges, Rutgers & Princeton
1870	”P. T. Barnum's Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan & Hippodrome” founded, traveling circus that gained popularity
Clerical Workers	those who do basic office tasks, repetitive things like typing, answering calls, maintaining records, filing, and scheduling appointments→demand for these duties were filled by a new middle class
Access to Employment: Women	↑access to employment for both genders, but females were hired because they could be paid less than males, not for progressiveness: Many women learned to type Hired to teach children in late 1800s
Leisure Time	Gradual ↓in work hours+better transport+excess time and money= began to do leisure activities→department store shopping, Vaudeville shows, bicycling, swimming
1889	Andrew Carnegie's article "Wealth" made, said that wealthy had God-given duty to perform civic projects of philanthropy→donated $350M+ to build public institutions like libraries
1893	Columbian Exposition/Chicago World Fair held, showing American achievement, attracting American and immigrant tourists
1895	amusement park opened in COney Island, NY
1890s-1947	Jim Crow Laws kept blacks from playing on all-white big-league teams
1889	Andrew Carnegie, in his article “Wealth”said wealthy had a God-given duty to perform civic projects of philanthropy→donated $350M+ to build public institutions like libraries
1900	Phoebe Apperson Hearst, woman suffragist, radical philanthropist, millionare, co-founded National Cathedral School in Washington, DC; she supported equal education among classes

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