At the end of the 1800s what was the direct effect of more leisure time? boredom enveloped the culture. there was an increase in crime. popular culture began to grow. people took second jobs.

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C. Popular culture began to grow

popular culture began to grow.

Explanation:

The term popular culture refers to the set of cultural patterns and artistic and literary manifestations created or consumed preferably by the popular classes (low or middle class without academic instruction, or in antiquity "the plebs") as opposed to an academic culture, high or an official focused on means of expression traditionally valued as superior and generally more elitist and exclusive.

nothing certain is known about what happened, but it seems that the country declined gradually, perhaps due to bad government, or, more likely, due to a series of bad harvests, which resulted in widespread and recurrent famine.