US History › Section J · Cities and Gilded Age politics › Topic J.3
Urban reform, leisure, and new ideas in writing
City dwellers coped with crowding and chaos in ways that depended on their class, from the ward boss and the ballpark to the suburb and the concert hall. Writers and thinkers, meanwhile, tried to explain what industrial America was becoming.
In this topic
- Different classes, different escapes
- The political machine
- Worked example: why voters backed the boss
- Commercial leisure for working people
- Elites and the new middle class
- The City Beautiful movement
- Darwin's ideas misapplied, and a new pragmatism
- Realism and naturalism in writing and art
- Critics of the industrial order
- Worked example: comparing three critics
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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