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Read page 396 and answer the following questions:

1. How have leisure time activities changed over the years?

2. What type of leisure activities do people engage in now? Fifty years ago? 100 years ago?

3. How much time do students spend on leisure activities? How much time did people spend on leisure activities in the early 1900’s?

CONEY ISLAND….THEN & NOW

THE GROWTH OF INDUSTRIAL PROSPERITY13-1

THE SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION(1870-1914)

ELECTRICITY

OTHER INVENTIONS

THOMAS EDISON

Thomas Edison patents over 1,000 inventions in research laboratory Most notable the light bulb and phonograph

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone

FORD SPARKS THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY

In 1880s, Germans invent first automobile Henry Ford lowers cost with assembly line—

one task per worker

ASSEMBLY LINE

THE WRIGHT BROTHERS FLY

In 1903, Wright brothers develop first working airplane

EUROPE DIVIDED

SOCIALISM

The desire to improve working and living conditions for industrial workers led to creation of socialist political parties

Karl Marx — German journalist proposes a radical socialism, Marxism

Friedrich Engels—German whose father owns a Manchester textile mill Together they wrote The Communist Manifesto in

1848

THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

THE FUTURE ACCORDING TO MARX

TRADE UNIONS