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| 8854601677 | Plessy v. Ferguson | An 1896 Supreme Court case that ruled that "separate but equal" facilities were permissible according to the 14th amendment. | 0 | |
| 8854601678 | Young Men's Christian Association | Introduced in Boston in 1851, this organization promoted muscular Christianity, combining evangelism with athletic facilities. | 1 | |
| 8854601679 | Negro Leagues | All-African American professional baseball teams where black men could showcase athletic ability and race pride. | 2 | |
| 8854601680 | Sierra Club | An organization founded in 1892, dedicated to preserving and enjoying America's great mountains and wilderness environments. | 3 | |
| 8854601681 | National Park Service | A federal agency founded in 1916 that provided comprehensive oversight of the growing system of national parks. | 4 | |
| 8854601682 | National Audubon Society | Named in honor of antebellum naturalist John James Audubon, a national organization formed in 1901 that advocated for broader government protections for wildlife. | 5 | |
| 8854601683 | Comstock Act | An 1873 law that prohibited circulation of "obscene literature" defined as including most information about sex and birth control. | 6 | |
| 8854601684 | liberal arts | A form of education pioneered by President Charles W. Eliot at Harvard University, whereby students chose from a range of electives, shaping their own curricula as they developed skills in research, critical thinking, and leadership. | 7 | |
| 8854601685 | Atlanta Compromise | An 1895 address to the Cotton States Exposition by Booker T. Washington that urged whites and African Americans to work together for the progress of all. | 8 | |
| 8854601686 | Maternalism | The belief that women should contribute to civic and political life through their special talents as mothers, Christians, and moral guides. Maternalists put this ideology into action by creating dozens of social reform organizations. | 9 | |
| 8854601687 | Women's Christian Temperance Union | An organization advocating the prohibition of liquor. | 10 | |
| 8854601688 | National Association of Colored Women | An organization that arranged for the care of orphans, found homes for the elderly, advocated temperance and undertook public health campaigns. | 11 | |
| 8854601689 | National American Woman Suffrage Association | Pro-suffrage organization formed by the joining of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. | 12 | |
| 8854601690 | feminism | The ideology that women should enter the public sphere not only to work on behalf of others, but also for their own equal rights and advancements. | 13 | |
| 8854601691 | natural selection | Charles Darwin's theory that the features of an organism that help it survive and reproduce are more likely than other features to be passed on to subsequent generations. | 14 | |
| 8854601692 | Social Darwinism | An idea based on the theory of Herbert Spencer that human society advanced through competition and "the survival of the fittest". | 15 | |
| 8854601693 | eugenics | An emerging "science" of human breeding in the late 19th century that argued that mentally deficient people should be prevented from reproducing. | 16 | |
| 8854601694 | realism | A movement that called for writers and artists to picture daily life in the most precise and exact manner possible | 17 | |
| 8854601695 | naturalism | A literary movement that suggested that human beings were not so much rational agents and shapers of their own destinies, but blind victims of forces beyond their control. | 18 | |
| 8854601696 | modernism | A movement that questioned the ideals of progress and order, rejected realism, and emphasized new cultural norms, the first great literary and artistic movement of the 20th century. | 19 | |
| 8854601697 | American Protective Association | A powerful political organization of militant Protestants, which for a brief period in the 1890s counted more than two million members. In its virulent anti-Catholicism and calls for restrictions on immigrants, it prefigured the revived Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. | 20 | |
| 8854601698 | Social Gospel | A movement to renew religious faith through dedication to public welfare and social justice, reforming both society and self through Christian service. | 21 | |
| 8854601699 | fundamentalism | A term adopted by Protestants who rejected modernism and historical interpretations of scripture and asserted the literal truth of the Bible. | 22 |
