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| What was the strenuous life? |
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| The idea that you should test your physical strength through sports and outdoor activities. Hiking, football, hunting ect |
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| Who came up with the strenuous life? |
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| Who were the targets for the strenuous life? |
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| What was the social gospel? |
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| That Christians should do work for the social good |
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| Who came up with the social gospel? |
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| What did immigrants in the 1890s do to make their lives more bearable? |
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| Develop things like churches, synagouges, fraternal societies, foreign languague newspapers |
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| Who were the preservationists? |
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| They believe there should be no human interference with nature because that could destroy it |
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| Who were the conservationists? |
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| They believed that our natural resources should be conserved in an economic way. |
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| What is consumer cultural democracy? |
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| that cultural and artistic expression can be purchased. |
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| What is people's capitalism |
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| The idea that everyone could own a part of American’s corporations. That consumer durables were available to all Americans |
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| what is the difference between people's capitalism and consumer culture democracy? |
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| Consumer culture democracy is that the people decide whats cool by buying it, while people's capitalism is the corporations decide what you can buy. |
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| What is commercialized leisure? |
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| Activities like amusement parks, department stores, professional sports, movies, cabarets, that were located in cities |
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| What is commercialized amusements? |
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| Attractions like dime shows, dance halls, music halls, and Amusement parks emerged as entertainment for the working class |
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| What is the difference between commercialized amusements and commercialized |
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| Commercialized leisure was more modern and meant more for the middle class. Commercial amusements were primitive sorts of entertainment and meant more for the working class. |
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