KEY FACTORS

• –The cultural ideal for white, middle-class women centered on what is called the “cult of domesticity.”
• –In U.S. cities by 1870, 15 to 30 percent of households had live-in domestic servants, the vast majority of them women.
• – Baseball became a national pastime in the 1870s, uniting urban residents across class lines.
• – In the 1890s, Coney Island in New York became the site of the largest and most elaborate amusement parks in the country.