History

1-2 What is the main argument? What objections to the 8-hour day is the author countering?
3-5 How do these articles compare with each other? What are the authors trying to say?
6-8 How did sports develop? Who played? Were they beneficial activities or not?

Essays:
Intro (these questions and ideas are repeated thru the essays). How did Coney Island allow people to change their relationship to machines? How did immigrants fit into the picture of new leisure activities?

How popular were parks as Coney Island? Who went? When? Why?

How did people use the parks to date?

What criticisms of the park culture arose? In what ways did they establish the old order raise fears?

What was “an artificial distraction for an artificial life”? What did this statement mean?