Section 3

• Skyscrapers - tall buildings w/many floors (more space in downtown areas)
• Electric elevators carried residents to upper floors
• Traffic - Downtown streets jammed with horse-drawn buses, carriages, & carts
• Sprague : First electric streetcar system
• Suburb - residential area near the outskirts of the city
• Boston built 1st American subway
• Eads: three-arched bridge across Mississippi river to St. Louis.
• Open land would calm busy city dwellers (public parks)
• Olmstead: Central Park: set aside land for public parks that contained zoos and gardens (leisure time)
• Department Stores - sold all kinds of goods
• Macy: "We sell goods cheaper than any house in the world"
• Less socializing at work = more interest in leisure
• Baseball = most popular sport in nation
• Civil War: NY soldiers showed other Union troops how to play baseball
• Naismith: invented Basketball
• Music & entertainment brough American together
• Traveling acts helped spread Am. culture beyond cities
• Vaudeville = variety show containing comedians, song-and-dance routines, and acrobats
• Ragtime - lively, rhythmic sound
• Joplin: A.A. compaser, made ragtime popular (Maple Lead Rag)
• Souse: Marching bands played his military music, fan favorite for 4th of July