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7965336494new immigrantsImmigrants who came to the United States during and after the 1880s; most were from southern and eastern Europe.0
7965336495settlement houseA community center that provided social services to the urban poor.1
7965336496liberal ProtestantsThose who believed that religion had to be adapted to science and that the Bible was to be mined for its ethical values rather than its literal meaning.2
7965336497Tuskegee InstituteBooker T. Washington built this school to educate black students on learning how to support themselves and prosper3
7965336498land-grant collegesState educational institutions built with the benefit of federally donated lands4
7965336499pragmatismA philosophy which focuses only on the outcomes and effects of processes and situations.5
7965336500yellow journalismIt exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers6
7965336501National American Woman Suffrage AssociationA group formed by leading suffragist in the late 1800s to organize the women's right to vote movement. Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.7
7965336502Woman's Christian Temperance UnionOne of the groups that was most involved in trying to bring about the end of alcohol sails and close down the business that made alcoholic beverages8
7965336503realismA 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be9
7965336504naturalismAn offshoot of realism, applied detached scientific objectivity to the study of human characters10
7965336505regionalismAn element in literature that conveys a realistic portrayal of a specific geographical locale, using the locale and its influences as a major part of the plot11
7965336506City Beautiful MovementArchitects and planners from this movement introduced beauty and imposed order in chaotic industrial cities12

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