Ch 8 (Modernization and Printed Products)
1.What are some of the industrialization advances of the nation between 1830s and 1900?
Steam power, National and Local Transportation, Mass production, Urbanization, Ads expan
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Ch 8 (Modernization and Printed Products)
1.What are some of the industrialization advances of the nation between 1830s and 1900?
Steam power, National and Local Transportation, Mass production, Urbanization, Ads expand in
newspapers/mags. Magazines- 700 in 1865 to 3,300 to 1885.
2. In what ways did newspapers starting in the late 19th century help early immigrants assimilate
in American society? Pulitzer’s New York World embraced the working class and immigrants
3. By the 1870s, the urbanization of U.S. society and shift in values saw the newspaper editor
replace whom as the “conscience of the community”?
Ministers
4. By 1870, what was the combined population of American cities?
10 million
5. What’s the newspaper legacy of Henry Grady and Scripps Howard? Grady was the spokesman
for industrialization and the South. Owned part of the Atlanta Constitution. Scripps- featured
concisely edited news, human interest stories and crusades for working class. Pioneered
newspaper chain. Owned 18 newspapers by 1911.
6. Grady was one of the first reporters to use what news gathering technique? The Interview
technique for gathering and interpreting the news.
7. How was lynching treated in the 19thcentury mainstream press? Lynching sold news papers
and became “sensational” but editors were against it. Editors faced punishment if they spoke
negatively, especially if a rich family was behind the paper.
8. Who was Ida B. Wells Barnett and what was her legacy? African-American journalist,
abolitionist. Protested the black lynching’s
9. The availability of photographs caused newspaper editors to ponder what ethical questions?
Are these photos sensational? Are they appropriate?
Ch 9 (Mass Markets and Mass Culture)
1. The rise of department stores such as the notable New York City Wanamaker store
epitomized U.S. consumer culture through integration of what two other concepts besides visual
display? Visual display, advertising and public service
2.Department stores held a pre-eminent role in local U.S. advertising from the 1890s until what
decade? 1980s
3. Which of the six women’s magazines started in the last decades of the 19th century are still
publishing? McCall’s, Good Housekeeping, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Ladies Home Journal
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