Alfredo Berlinghieri
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The 1900s Lifestyles and Social Trends: OverviewThe United States shed many of its nineteenth-century styles, traditions, and beliefs as it entered the modern era. America in 1900 was vastly different from the rural, farm-based economy populated largely by Anglo-Saxons of a hundred years before. The country was becoming increasingly urbanized ...
Buffalo Bill Cody (1846–1917) and his Wild West Show, a sensation in the nineteenth century, toured America. Smaller circuses visited towns big and small. But a new media began to take hold in the 1900s: film. The groundbreaking silent film The Great Train Robbery (1903) thrilled audiences with its realistic portrayal of a train robbery and ...
Segregation, the separating of the races, became legally formalized in many parts of the United States during the 1890s and 1900s. Statutes called "Jim Crow" laws prohibited whites and blacks from sharing the same educational institutions, transportation, hotel accommodations, and entertainment facilities. In both the North and South, whites ...
U*X*L American Decades. The 1900s Lifestyles and Social Trends: Chronology1900: Some of the new automobile brands introduced to the public are Franklin, Peerless, Stearns, Packard, and Auburn.1900: One in twelve American marriages ends in divorce.1900: Cocaine is removed from the recipe for Coca-Cola.1900: There are more than 1.3 million ...
The 1900s Government, Politics, and Law: OverviewAmerican society was rapidly transforming at the dawn of the new century. The country as a whole was moving away from a rural agriculture-based lifestyle to an urban industrial economy. During the years 1900 to 1909, over eight million immigrants poured into the United States in search of jobs ...
1900s: Music. Music was an immensely popular form of entertainment in America in the first decade of the century, though not in the same way it is today. Americans did not buy prerecorded records or CDs and play them on stereo equipment. Instead, most American popular music was produced in the home, most likely on a piano, from sheet music ...
WOMEN IN THE EARLY TO MID-20TH CENTURY (1900-1960): INTRODUCTIONThe dawn of the twentieth century witnessed changes in almost every aspect of the day-today lives of women, from the domestic sphere to the public. The women's movement, with its emphasis on advocacy of equal rights, newly formed women's organizations, and the rise of a new ...
Until regulation ended the practice, child labor was common. In 1900 more than 250,000 children under the age of fifteen worked in factories for minimal pay. Average union wages in 1900 were thirty-four cents per hour, compared to non-union, unskilled pay of fifteen cents per hour. The average workweek in the decade was fifty-three hours.
In Women and War: The Changing Status of American Women from the 1930s to the 1940s, edited by Maria Diedrich and Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, pp. 21-34. Source for information on Women in the Early to Mid-20th Century (1900-1960): Social and Economic Conditions: Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion dictionary.
In 1900, the Republican presidential platform stated the party's opposition to "all conspiracies and combinations intended to restrict business, to create monopolies, to limit production, or to control prices." Once Republican Theodore Roosevelt entered the White House, he increased the government's efforts to limit corporations.
