The Dawn of Mass Culture L5 Immigration and Urbanization

In this lesson you will learn about how Americans developed new forms of entertainment and ways to spend their money.

Ashcan School A school of painting that featured urban life and working people
with gritty realism
pragmatism School of philosophical thought developed in the 1870s
Mark Twain Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Joseph Pulitzer Owner of the New York World newspaper
William Randolph Hearst Owner of the New York Morning Journal and the
San Francisco Examiner
rural free delivery (RFD) System that brought packages directly to homes