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Chapter 25: America Moves to the City Flashcards

From the American Pagent 13th Edition

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610430943Sister CarrieWritten by Theodore Dreiser Includes Carrie Meeber
610430944Carrie MeeberRepresented the consumerism and city life
610430945Dumbbell TenementCram packed families into small apartments
610430946ImmigrationPeople poured in from southern Europe and amassed in "Little Italy"s and others Businesses wanted because it was cheap labor
610430947Walter Rauschenbusch and Washington GladdenWanted to fix the slums Thought socialism was the answer
610430948Jane AddamsEstablished the most popular American settlement house in Chicago Called the Hull House Preached antiwar
610430949Hull HouseOffered lessons in English Lobbied for an Illinois anti-sweatshop law protecting women and children Led by Florence Kelly
610430950Lillian WaldHenry Street Settlement Opened in 1893
610430951Florence KellyFought for women, children, blacks, and consumers Went from Hull House, to the Henry Street Settlement, and then the National Consumers League
610430952AntiforeignismRespurred in the 1880s because of the high influx of people and their alarming birthrates
610430953American Protective Association (APA)Created in 1887 and claimed a million members Advocated against voting for Roman Catholics for office
610430954Congress 1882Wouldn't let paupers or criminals in
610430955Congress 1885Wouldn't let any foreign worker in under contract, usually for sub-standard wages
610430956Other CongressList of people was eventually extended to the insane, polygamists, alcoholics, anarchists, and people with contagious diseases
610430957Congress 1917Finally said that there needed to be a literacy test, after 3 dif pres vetoed
610430958Congress 1882Bans completely, the Chinese
610430959Statue of LibertyGift from French in 1886
610430960Episcopal ChurchDominated by status and who had the most money
610430961New, liberal ProtestantsDominated Protestantism between 1875 and 1925 Didn't take Bible literally Questioned idea of original sin
610430962Dwight Lyman MoodyFormal shoe salesman Liberal Protestant
610430963Cardinal James GibbonsRoman Catholic leader devoted to American Unity and popular with both Catholics and Protestants
610430964Salvation ArmySpread in 1879
610430965The Church of Christ, ScientistLead by Mary Baker Eddy after a sickness Promised cure from diseases through prayer
610430966Mary Baker EddyWrote Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
610430967YMCA YWCACombined other teaching with religious ones
610430968On the Origin of SpeciesPublished in 1859 Published by Darwin and heralded Natural Selection Caused more skeptical thinking
610430969EducationTook a sharp upturn with public education skyrocketing and more teacher schools opening Due to immigration, Catholic Schools also grew
610430970Booker T WashingtonEx-slave helped education grow in the South Taught students useful skills for them to grow past themselves
610430971George Washington CarverFound a bunch of uses for the peanut, the sweet potato, and the soybean
610430972Dr. W. E. B. Du BoisCondemned Brooker T Washington for teaching just practical skills Demanded complete equality for blacks Founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP in 1910
610430973Morrill Act of 1862Gave generous amounts of land to public education
610430974Hatch Act of 1887Extended the Morrill Act, giving funds to agricultural experiments in connection to land grant colleges
610430975Dr. Charles W. EliotYoung chemist President of Harvard
610430976Joseph ListerListerine
610430977Louis PasteurPasteurize
610430978William JamesPrinciples of Psychology (1890) The Will to Believe (1897) Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) Pragmatism (1907)
610430979Henry GeorgeProgress and Poverty Wanted 100% tax on the owners of land
610430980Edward BellamyLooking Backward
610430981General Lewis WallaceBen Hur: A Tale of the Christ Anti-Darwinist
610430982Kate ChopinThe Awakening Feminist
610430983William Deal HowellsEditor in Chief of Atlantic Monthly A Modern Instance (1882) The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) The Hazard of New Fortunes
610430984Stephan CraneMaggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
610430985Henry AdamsGreat grandson of John Adams History of the US During the Admins of Jeff and Mad Mont-Saint-Mitchel and Chartres (1905) The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
610430986Henry JamesDaisy Miller (1879) The Portrait of a Lady (1881) The Wings of the Dove (1902) The Bostonians (1886)
610430987Jack LondonThe Call of the Wild (1903) The Iron Heel (1907)
610430988Frank NorrisThe Octopus (1901) The Pit (1903)
610430989Paul Laurence DunbarBlack Poet Lyrics of Lowly Life (1986)
610430990Charles W ChesnuttBlack short story writer Atlantic Monthly The Conjure Women
610430991Theodore DreiserSister Carrie (1900)
610430992Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee ClaflinWoodhull and Claflin's Weekly Far-out and radical Supported free love
610430993Anthony ComstockWaged war on the immoral Prude asshole
610430994Charlotte Perkins GilmanWomen and Economics
610430995National American Woman Suffrage Association (1890)Included many reformers Only allowed white women
610430996Carrie Chapman Catt***
610430997Ida B WellsHelped launch national anti-lynching campaign
610430998National Prohibition Party (1869)***
610430999Woman's Christian Temperance UnionLead by Frances E. Willard
610431000Carrie A. NationCrazy prohibitionist woman
610431001Anti-Saloon League (1893)***
61043100218th Amendment1919 Prohibition
610431003American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (1866)***
610431004American Red Cross (1881)***
610431005James WhistlerPainter from MA in GB
610431006John Singer SargentPainter from US in GB
610431007Mary CassattUS painter in exile in Paris
610431008George InnessBecame US's leading landscapist
610431009Thomas EakinsPortraitist with a high degree of realism
610431010Winslow HomerBoston born and one of the best painters of his time
610431011Augustus Saint GaudensBorn in Ireland but moved to US Greatest sculpture of his time
610431012Metropolitan Opera House (1883)In NY Brought Euro music to US but also started developing jazz and such
610431013Louis SullivanSkyscraper builder One of greatest architects
610431014Henry H. RichardsonBorn in Louisiana and educated at Harvard and in Paris Large gothic style arches Marshal Field Building (1885)

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