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the early twentieth century’s most celebrated showman,
Harry Houdini
___________ also popularized comics, and the yellow ink in which they were printed gave rise to the term yellow journalism as a synonym for sensationalism.
Pulitzer
The Boston Red Sox beat the _____________________ in the first World Series.
Pittsburg Pirates
By 1900 Americans owned 10 million _________, and clubs petitioned state governments to build more paved roads.
Bicycles
- Born as Erich Weiss in Hungary in 1874, ___________ and his family emigrated to the United States in 1878. After Erich’s father lost his job as a rabbi in Wisconsin, the family moved to New York City, where father and son worked in a necktie factory.Erich’s father died in 1892, and the young man became an entertainer.
Harry Houdini
An intercollegiate competition, initially attracted mostly players and spectators wealthy enough to have access to higher education. The 1893 Princeton-Yale game drew fifty thousand spectators, and informal games were played throughout the country.
American Football
a new form of urban entertainment
Vaudeville
What inspired the City Beautiful movement?
Columbian Exposition of 1893, a dazzling world’s fair held in Chicago, architects and planners urged the construction of civic centers, parks, and boulevards that would make cities economically efficient and beautiful
Settlement-house worker, she broadened their scope to fight for school nurses, factory safety codes, and public playgrounds.
Jane Addams of Chicago
Most popular sport?
Baseball
-who bought the New York Journal in 1895 and started a newspaper empire, adopted Pulitzer’s techniques. They boosted circulation further by featuring sports and women’s news.
William Randolph Hearst
- A Hungarian immigrant who bought the New York World in 1883, pioneered journalism by making news a mass commodity. filled the World with stories of disasters, crimes, and scandals and featured screaming headlines set in large, bold type.
Joseph Pulitzer
