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5 pages. After the Civil War had ended and with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, Americans found themselves with leisure time as well as the need for some sort of healthy exercise. This paper explains how physical education and recreation became popular through the influence of several people including Gulick, Beecher, and Hanna. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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This paper explains how physical education and recreation became popular through the influence of several people including Gulick, Beecher, and Hanna. THE CIVIL WAR AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
The physical fitness movement in America which started before the Civil War, declined rapidly as America became entrenched in the throes of the War Between the States. It was
not until after the Civil War and people found themselves with more leisure time on their hands that the physical education and recreation movement became active again (University of Toledo
2002). With the Industrial Revolution along came more sedentary jobs as machinery took over most of the physical work that used to be done by hand. Americans found themselves
doing less physical activity at their jobs and becoming a nation of overweight and less physically fit individuals. "The cost of industrialization and urbanization became glaringly apparent starting
in the 1950s and 1960s. An epidemic of hypokinetic diseases including cardiovascular disease, cancer, and Type II diabetes, never before prevalent, began to be recognized as the leading causes of
disease and death (19). The lifestyle improvements brought in part by the Industrial Revolution had apparently come with an unwanted and alarming cost to health" (Dalleck and Kravitz, 2002, PG).
Due to the industrial revolution people were moving from rural areas to more urban areas to take well-paying jobs in the industrial centers of many states. This saw
people with more leisure time on their hands once they got off work every evening. With no farm crops or land to tend, the beginning of the era of
the nine to five workday was taking an alarming toll on the physical fitness of America. CATHERINE BEECHER About the same time, Catherine Beecher was advocating more healthy
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