WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
GILDED AGE POLITICS
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Opera.
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Attending the theater.
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Wild West traveling shows.
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Boxing.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Circuses and fairs, vaudeville and sports, crimes and disasters all kept Americans entertained and excited in the Gilded Age .
Detailed explanation-2: -During the Gilded Age, Victorian values clashed with a brash new order of commercial entertainment and leisure venues. “Daring” stage entertainments and their denunciation became common features of the social landscape, as commercialism liberalized social codes.
Detailed explanation-3: -Vaudeville, dance halls, and motion pictures became popular, while new modes of travel allowed Americans to escape to mountain and seaside resorts.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the first 20 years of the 20th century, attendance at professional baseball games doubled. Vaudeville, too, increased in popularity, featuring singing, dancing, skits, comics, acrobats, and magicians. Amusement parks, penny arcades, dance halls, and other commercial amusements flourished.