Chapter 25
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| 600601252 | Jane Addams | Founder of Settlement House Movement. First American Woman to earn Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 as president of Women's Intenational League for Peace and Freedom. | 0 | |
| 600601253 | Florence Kelly | helped persuade to prohibit child labor and limit number of hours women were forced to work, founded National Child Labor Committee. | 1 | |
| 600601254 | Mary Baker Eddy | She founded the Church of Christ(Christian Science) in 1879. Preached that the true practice of Christianity heals sickness. (No need for a doctor, if have enough faith can heal self). Wrote a widely purchased book, "Science and Health with a key to the Scriptures". | 2 | |
| 600601255 | Charles Darwin | British biologist who introduced the ideas of natural selection and evolution; argued that specific behaviors evolved because they led to advantages in survival or reproduction | 3 | |
| 600601256 | Booker T. Washington | started a black school in Tuskegee, Alabama. Taught students useful skills and trades, but avoided the issue of social equality. Believed blacks should help themselves before gaining equal rights. | 4 | |
| 600601257 | W.E.B. DuBios | first black man to get a Ph.D. from Harvard. Founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Demanded the blacks receive social equality right away. | 5 | |
| 600601258 | William James | founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment; wrote first psychology textbook - The Principles of Psychology. His greatest work was Pragmatism, which states that everything has a purpose. | 6 | |
| 600601259 | Henry George | San Fransisco journalist published a provocative book in 1879 that was an instant best seller. It jolted readers to look more critically at the effects of laissez-faire economics. The book is called "Progress and Poverty" and proposes on putting a single tax on land as the solution to poverty. | 7 | |
| 600601260 | Horatio Alger | Popular novelist during the Industrial Revolution who wrote "rags to riches" books praising the values of hard work, he wrote that virtue, honesty and industry would be rewarded with success, wealth and honor. | 8 | |
| 600601261 | Mark Twain | a.k.a Samuel Clemmens;, United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910) | 9 | |
| 600601262 | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | A major feminist prophet during the late 19th and early 20th century. She published "Women and Economics" which called on women to abandon their dependent status and contribute more to the community through the economy. She created centralized nurseries and kitchens to help get women into the work force. | 10 | |
| 600601263 | Carrie Chapman Catt | .k.a. Samuel Clemmens;, United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910) | 11 | |
| 600601264 | Cardinal James Gibbons | An American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Richmond from 1872 to 1877, and as Archbishop of Baltimore from 1877 until his death in 1921. Elevated to the cardinalate in 1886, the second American to receive that distinction. | 12 | |
| 600601265 | Dwight Lyman Moody | This man, part of the social gospel movement, proclaimed the gospel of kindnessand forgiveness and adapted the old-time religion to the facts of city life and founded an institute in 1889 | 13 | |
| 600601266 | Megalopolis | An extensive, heavily populated area, containing several dense urban centers. | 14 | |
| 600601267 | Settlement House | a house where immigrants came to live upon entering the U.S. At these places, instruction was given in English and how to get a job, among other things. The first one was the Hull House, which was opened by Jane Addams in Chicago in 1889. These centers were usually run by educated middle class women. The houses became centers for reform in the women's and labor movements. | 15 | |
| 600601268 | Nativism | viewed Eastern and Southern Europeans as culturally and religiously exotic hordes and often gave them a rude reception. | 16 | |
| 600601269 | Evolution | A theory that the various types of animals and plants have their origin in other preexisting types and that the distinguishable differences are due to modifications in successive generations. | 17 | |
| 600601270 | Pragmatism | An American movement in philosophy founded by C. S. Peirce and William James and marked by the doctrines that the meaning of conceptions is to be sought in their practical bearings, that the function of thought is to guide action, and that truth is preeminently to be tested by the practical consequences of belief | 18 | |
| 600601271 | Yellow journalism | Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers. | 19 | |
| 600601272 | New Immigration | The second major wave of immigration to the U.S.; betwen 1865-1910, 25 million new immigrants arrived. Unlike earlier immigration, which had come primarily from Western and Northern Europe, the New Immigrants came mostly from Southern and Eastern Europe, fleeing persecution and poverty. Language barriers and cultural differences produced mistrust by Americans. | 20 | |
| 600601273 | Social Gospel | Movement led by Washington Gladden - taught religion and human dignity would help the middle class over come problems of industrialization | 21 | |
| 600601274 | Hull House | Settlement home designed as a welfare agency for needy families. It provided social and educational opportunities for working class people in the neighborhood as well as improving some of the conditions caused by poverty. | 22 | |
| 600601275 | American Protective Association | an American anti-Catholic society (similar to the Know Nothings) that was founded on March 13, 1887 by Attorney Henry F. Bowers in Clinton, Iowa | 23 | |
| 600601276 | Salvation Army | This welfare organization came to the US from England in 1880 and sought to provide food, shelter, and employment to the urban poor while preaching temperance and morality. | 24 | |
| 600601277 | Chautauqua Movement | One of the first adult education programs. Developed into a travelling lecture series and adult summer school which traversed the country providing religious and secular education though lectures and classes. | 25 | |
| 600601278 | Morrill Act of 1862 | provided generous grants of land to the states for support of education. (LSU, OSU, Texas A&M). Was extended by the Hatch Act. | 26 | |
| 600601279 | Comstock Law | Prohibited the mailing or transportation of obscene and lewd material and photographs. | 27 | |
| 600601280 | Women's Christian Temperance Union | This organization was dedicated to the idea of the 18th Amendment - the Amendment that banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol, in favor of temperance, moral purity, and the rights of women | 28 | |
| 600601281 | Eighteenth Amendment | Banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol, in favor of temperance, moral purity, and the rights of women | 29 |
