Trends in Shopping

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Trends in Shopping

• Rising incomes
• Women in the marketplace
• Consumers
• National Consumer League
• New opportunities
• Department stores
• Chain stores
• A P
• F. W. Woolworth

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Entertainment

• Sporting Events
• Baseball
• Barn storming
• Football
• Basketball
• James Naismith
• Prize Fighting
• Music and Theatre
• Vaudeville
• Nickelodeons
• Motion picture
• D.W. Griffith

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Entertainment (cont)

• Pleasure Parks
• Central Park
• Coney Island
• Luna Park
• Dreamland
• Literature
• Newspaper production
• Dime novels
• The Red Badge of Courage

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Central Park
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Coney Island
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Coney Island Attractions 1925-1940
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Luna Park
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Other forms of entertainment

• Family gatherings
• Telephone
• Switchboard

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Growth in Education

• Public Schools
• Colleges and Universities
• Private institutions
• Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862

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Women in the Victorian Age

• Separate spheres
• Higher education
• Mount Holyoke
• Changing roles in society

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Queen Victoria
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Victorian depiction of women