3/ Impacts on U.S.

society : religion and culture

→ New religious ethics

capitalism and morality ?

consolidation of recent shifts in Protestantism : reform is possible

new trends :
- philanthropy (Carnegie and the « gospel of wealth »)
- the « social gospel »

→ The emergence of mass entertainment

the development of traveling circuit shows like vaudevilles…

Poster for the Sandow Trocadero

Vaudevilles, circa 1894.
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90050159.item
… or wild west shows
The phonograph and the growth of the music industry
The growth of the motion picture industry
The first silent short movies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=V_ISKNi6TqY
The kintetograph The Buffalo Dance, Edison, 1894.

One of the first movie theatres in

the United States, Koster and Bial’s
Kinetoscope Music Hall, NYC, 1896.
parlor, San
Francisco, 1894.
The development of tourism

urban tourism

Luna Park, amusement Park on Coney Island, Brooklyn.

1910-1915.
Touring New York, turn of the twentieth century, J. https://www.americanyawp.com/text/18-industrial-
Mark Souther, Urban « Tourism in the US since america/
1800 », 2018.
https://oxfordre.com/americanhistory/display/10.1093/acrefore/
9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-573
The automobile and rural tourism

Cover of a tourist brochure,

Rapid City : Gateway to the
Black Hills of South Dakota,
Rapid City Chamber of
Commerce, 1932.
Rapid City Public Library,
Local History Archives.