3441319824 | The over-arching theme of chapter 25 is that in the late 1800s, the Industrial Revolution forced the American city to gain dominance over rural America. | 0 | ||
3441356818 | Cities grew because factories grew. The Industrial Revolution kicked into gear in America in the late 1800s and factories needed workers, so people flocked to the cities. | 1 | ||
3441358380 | Problems arose as cities boomed. The problems included: exploitation of immigrant laborers, poor/unhealthy work conditions, over-crowdedness and sanitation problems, corruption, and "nativism" (anti-immigrant feelings). | 2 | ||
3441360305 | Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. DuBois were the top black leaders. They disagreed on how to help blacks—Washington encouraged blacks to obtain a practical skill at a trade school, DuBois encouraged blacks to study anything they wished, even academic subjects. The roles of women began to change, if only slightly. | 3 | ||
3441362199 | More women worked, though most were still at home. The "new woman" was idealized by the athletic, outgoing "Gibson Girl." | 4 | ||
3441417631 | I. Urban Frontier | 5 | ||
3441428475 | industrial jobs | What was the major factor drawing people off the farms and into the big cities? | 6 | |
3441480235 | the rise of large department stores. | What was one of the early symbols of the dawning era of consumerism in urban America pioneered by Marshal Field in Chicago? | 7 | |
3441486290 | dumbell tenements | tall, narrow, barbell-shaped buildings | 8 | |
3441522977 | II. New Immigration | 9 | ||
3441541948 | eastern and southern Europe | Where did most of the 20 million "New Immigrants" between 1870 and 1920 come from? How were they different? | 10 | |
3441558047 | III. Southern Europe uprooted | 11 | ||
3441550951 | escape poverty | Why did most Italian immigrants to the United States between 1880-1920 come to the United States? | 12 | |
3441563621 | "Birds of Passage" | Some immigrants came to America to work for a short time and then returned to Europe. What were they called? | 13 | |
3441584396 | melting pot | The term for a mix of peoples from different cultures | 14 | |
3441589851 | salad bowl | However. most immigrants tried to preserve their cultures. What is this known as ? | 15 | |
3441597399 | III. Reaction to the New Immigration | 16 | ||
3441610712 | assimilation or Americanize | Immigrants were expected to give up their culture and adapt to American culture. What is this term? | 17 | |
3441626902 | political machines | With no government intervention, immigrants often relied on this political entity for help. | 18 | |
3441636953 | Settlement Houses | What community centers offered immigrants assistance in child care, instruction in English, cultural activities, and social reform lobbying? | 19 | |
3441663416 | Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr | These two reformers co-founded Hull House in order to help the poor. | 20 | |
3441685209 | the big city: black women usually worked as domestic servants Wives and mothers were not expected to work white-collar jobs for native born women immigrant women in industrial jobs | Of all of the following places which one offered women the greatest opportunities between 1865-1900? the big city the West suburban communities rural America New England | 21 | |
3441716271 | IV. Narrowing the Welcome Mat | 22 | ||
3441757365 | nativism | Term used to describe overt favoritism towards native-born Americans | 23 | |
3441827698 | labor organizations | What favored immigrant restrictions because they were willing to be used as strikebreakers, willing to work for low wages, and were usually non-English speaking? | 24 | |
3441844340 | American Protective Agency (APA) | THIS anti-foreign organization was reminiscent of the "know-nothings of the antebellum days, they were created in 1867 and grew to a million members. | 25 | |
3441905781 | V. Churches Confront the Urban Challenge | 26 | ||
3441928515 | Jews and Catholics | Most of the NEW Immigrants were of which two religious denominations? | 27 | |
3441998203 | Roman Catholics | By 1900, which religious denomination had become the largest single denomination with over 9 million communicants? | 28 | |
3442016049 | the Salvation Army | Which religious denomination was a band playing group from England with members were soldiers without swords? They provide meals to the homeless. | 29 | |
3442023417 | VI. Darwin Disrupts the Churches | 30 | ||
3442035927 | Herbert Spencer | Who used Darwin's theories to explain the evolution of human society | 31 | |
3442050729 | caused a split between evolutionists and accommodationists | How did the Darwinian theory of organic evolution through natural selection affect religion? What two groups split? | 32 | |
3442091540 | VII. The Lust For Learning | 33 | ||
3442140081 | laws increased attendance need for educated citizens | How did college and High Schools change after the Civil War? | 34 | |
3442154525 | VII. Booker T. Washington and Education for Black People | 35 | ||
3442165879 | Booker T. Washington | Which African American educator believed that racism end once blacks acquired diplomas and labor skills? | 36 | |
3442212846 | economic improvement | Therefore, what did Washington believe was the key to political and civil rights for African Americans? | 37 | |
3442187410 | Tuskegee, Alabama, Normal and Industrial Institute | 1881 School started by Booker T. Washington that offered African Americans teaching diplomas and vocational skills | 38 | |
3442230877 | equality ending segregation | Why was Washington criticized? Where did some think he stopped short? He did not believe that blacks should push for this? | 39 | |
3442280223 | "Uncle Tom" | Some blacks referred to Booker T. Washington as being THIS because he did not fight for equality now. | 40 | |
3442250362 | W.E.B. Du Bois | THIS black leader promoted a liberal arts education as the basis for training and leadership? | 41 | |
3442262562 | Niagara Movement | This movement was the way in which Du Bois promoted higher education to blacks? | 42 | |
3442287316 | National Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) | WHAT organization was founded by Du Bois and others who called for full equality of the races? | 43 | |
3442325934 | "talented tenth" | What was the name for as described by W.E.B. Du Bois for the blacks that should lead the their race to full social and racial equality with whites? | 44 | |
3442335084 | VIII. The Hollowed Halls of Ivy: Between 1850 and 1900, more than 150 new colleges were founded! | 45 | ||
3442343676 | Morrill Act of 1862 | What law granted public lands to states to support higher education? | 46 | |
3442361666 | women | College education for which group in the decades after the Civil War became much more common? | 47 | |
3442377686 | IX. The March of the Mind | 48 | ||
3442370310 | increased significantly | What happened to life expectancy during the industrial revolution? | 49 | |
3442414015 | industry | Colleges added more subjects beyond Greek and Latin. What caused colleges to expand their curriculum in modern languages, physical sciences, and psychology and physiology? | 50 | |
3442418922 | X. Appeal of the Press | 51 | ||
3442439389 | sensationalism | THIS new style of writing was capturing the public interest in sex scandals and other human interest stories. | 52 | |
3442448954 | Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst | THESE two new journalist tycoons emerged by using methods in sensationalism. | 53 | |
3442465543 | XI. Apostles of Reform | 54 | ||
3442499234 | socialism | Some journalists, like Edwin L. Godkin, pioneered taking on controversial issues such as civil-service reform and the tariff. | 55 | |
3442505904 | socialism | Some journalists, like Edward Bellamy, criticized wealth over poverty and argued for THIS economic system. | 56 | |
3442518402 | XII. Postwar Writing | 57 | ||
3442528367 | dime novels | As literacy increased, so did reading. What is the name of the books that Americans purchased millions of after the Civil War? | 58 | |
3442572011 | Andrew Carnegie | What philanthropist greatly contributed financial support to libraries. | 59 | |
3442589582 | Christianity | Ben Hur, by General Lewis Wallace, defended THIS against Darwinism. | 60 | |
3442598645 | XIII. Literary Landmarks | 61 | ||
3442662410 | materialism = wealth v. poverty = industrial society | American novelists are now moving away from romanticism and transcendentalism to rugged social realism reflected by WHAT after the Civil War? | 62 | |
3442611966 | Mark Twain | Who was born Samuel Longhorn Clemens? He was America's most famous author and platform lecturer. He wrote many novels including the Adventures of Tom Swayer and Huckleberry Finn. | 63 | |
3442646907 | Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane wrote THIS book in 1895, a stirring story of a young Civil War recruit. Crane died of tuberculosis at age 29. | 64 | |
3442674149 | XIV. The New Morality | 65 | ||
3442696039 | divorce rates birth control marry earlier children seen as greater econmic asset | WHAT behaviors In the decades after the Civil War, reflect changes in sexual attitudes and practices? | 66 | |
3442701932 | XV. Families and Women in the City | 67 | ||
3442707963 | gradually declined | What happened to family size in the course of the late 19th century? | 68 | |
3442726368 | the right to vote would extend their roles as mothers and homemakers to the public world. | By 1900, what had women's suffrage demanded? | 69 | |
3442737275 | stress of urban life | What was the most important factor leading to an increased divorce rate in the late 19th century? | 70 | |
3442747731 | whites | Which group was enrollment to the National Women's Suffrage Association limited to? | 71 | |
3442754052 | XVI. Prohibition of Alcohol and Social Progress | 72 | ||
3442758240 | middleclass women | Which group most reflected the prohibition movement? | 73 | |
3442767941 | Review the Women's Suffrage Movement from 1848-1919. Who-what-where-when-why | 74 | ||
3442769569 | XVII. Artistic Triumph | 75 | ||
3442800868 | Thomas Eakins | The art of Winslow Homer and THIS artist moved away from romanticism and toward a more realistic view of life. | 76 | |
3442815739 | architecture | What does the term Richardsonian in the late 19th century pertain to? | 77 | |
3442830856 | XVIII. The Business of Amusement | 78 | ||
3442839580 | basketball bicycling croquet college football circus vaudeville | Which sports and pastimes were developed during the late 19th century? | 79 | |
3442856848 | THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | 80 | |
3442859161 | IDENTIFICATION | 81 | ||
3442867971 | dumbell tenements | High-rise urban buildings that provided barrackslike housing for urban slum dwellers | 82 | |
3442870900 | New Immigrants | Term for the post - 1880 newcomers who came to America primarily from southern and eastern Europe | 83 | |
3442880963 | birds of passage | Immigrants who came to America to earn money for a time and then returned to their native land | 84 | |
3442888485 | social gospel | The religious doctrine preached by those who believed the churches should directly address economic and social problems | 85 | |
3442894975 | Hull House | Settlement house in Chicago slums that became a model for women's involvement in urban social reform | 86 | |
3442900398 | social work | Profession established by Jane Addams and others that opened new opportunities for women while engaging urban problems | 87 | |
3442904550 | American Protection Agency (APA) | Nativist organization that attacked "New Immigrants" and Roman Catholicism in the 1u80s and 1890s | 88 | |
3442911474 | Roman Catholicism | The church that became the largest religious group, mainly as a result of the "New Immigration" | 89 | |
3442922082 | Tuskegee Institute | Black institution founded by Booker T. Washington to provide training in agriculture and crafts | 90 | |
3442927202 | NAACP | Organization founded by W.E.B. Do Bois and others to advance black social and economic equality | 91 | |
3442931722 | Progress and Poverty | Henry George's best-selling book that advocated social reform through the imposition of a "single tax" on land | 92 | |
3442937809 | Comstock Law | Federal law promoted by a self-appointed morality crusader and used to persecute moral and sexual dissidents | 93 | |
3442945527 | Women and Economics | Charlotte Perkins Gilman's book urging women to enter the work force and advocating cooperative kitchens and child-care centers | 94 | |
3442962771 | NAWSA | Organization founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others to promote the vote for women | 95 | |
3442971425 | WCTU | Women's organization founded by Frances Willard and others to oppose alcohol consumption | 96 | |
3442975943 | MATCHING | 97 | ||
3442979763 | Louis Sullivan | Chicago-based architect whose high-rise innovation allowed more people to crowd into limited urban space | 98 | |
3442987785 | Walter Rauschenbusch | Leading Protestant advocate of the "social gospel" who tried to make Christianity relevant to urban and industrial problems | 99 | |
3442993793 | Jane Addams | Leading social reformer who lived with the poor and the slums and pioneered new forms of activism for women | 100 | |
3442996093 | Dwight L. Moody | Popular evangelical preacher who brought the tradition of old-time revivalism to the industrial city | 101 | |
3443003192 | Mary Baker Eddy | Author and founder of a popular new religion based on principles of spiritual healing | 102 | |
3443009863 | Booker T. Washington | Former slave who promoted industrial education and economic opportunity but not social equality for blacks | 103 | |
3443015468 | William James | Harvard scholar who made original contributions to modern psychology and philosophy | 104 | |
3443025259 | Henry George | Controversial reformer whose book, Progress and Poverty advocated solving problems of economic inequality by a tax on land | 105 | |
3443029342 | Emily Dickinson | Gifted but isolated New England poet, the bulk of whose works were not published until after her death | 106 | |
3443034453 | Mark Twain | Midwestern-born writer and lecturer who created a new style of American literature based on social realism and humor | 107 | |
3443042444 | Victoria Woodhull | Radical feminist propagandist whose eloquent attacks on conventional social morality shocked many Americans in the 1870s. | 108 | |
3443043113 | Anthony Comstock | Vigorous 19th century crusader for sexual "purity" who used federal law to enforce his moral views | 109 | |
3443044983 | W.E.B. Du Bois | Harvard-educated scholar and advocate of full black social and economic equality through the leadership of a "talented tenth" | 110 | |
3443045535 | Henry Adams | Well-connected and socially prominent historian who feared modern trends and sought relief in the beauty and culture of the past | 111 | |
3443073081 | THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | 112 |
Chapter 25 America Moves to the City 1865-1900 Flashcards
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