APUSH Chapter 25 Vocab Flashcards

532765471	Booker T. Washington	Ex-slave, 1881-called to head the black school in Tuskegee, Alabama. Started with about 40 students. Taught blacks useful trades so they would gain self-respect and economic security.
532765472	W.E.B. Du Bois	Called Booker Washington an Uncle Tom who was condemning their race to manual labor and inferiority. Born in Massachusetts. Earned Ph.D at Harvard (first of his race to do so) Demanded complete equality. Helped found the National Association for Advancement of Colored People. Said tenth of blacks should have full access to mainstream of American life
532765473	Morrill Act	Provided a grant of lands to states for support of education. Led to creation of land-grant colleges
532765474	Pragmatism	William James pronounced America's greatest contribution to history of philosophy was Pragmatism. The truth of an idea was to be tested by its practical consequences
532765475	Yellow Journalism	Joseph Pulitzer publisher of New York World and St. Louis Post Dispatch, colored comic strips featuring Yellow Kid
532765476	Henry George	Idealism,wrote "Progress and Poverty" to solve the great enigma of our times. He said the pressure of growing population on fixed land supply unjustly pushed up property values, giving unearned profits to landowners.Became controversial figure. Believed single 100% tax would fix inequalities and stimulate economic growth.wrote his ideas in a book which sold over 3 million copies
532765477	Mark Twain	Missouri, teamed with Charles Warner to write The Gilded Age. worked as boat pilot, later moved to California, received honorary Oxford degree
532765478	Charlotte Perkins Gilman	published feminist literature, called on women to abandon their dependent status and contribute to larger life of community through productive involvement in the economy
532765479	Woman's Christian Temperance Union	militant group of women against alcohol, white ribbon was its symbol of purity
532765480	Megalopolis	an extensive concentration of urbanized settlement formed by a coalescence of several metropolitan areas. The term is commonly applied to the urbanized northeastern seaboard of the U.S. extending from Boston, MA to Washington, D.C.
532765481	settlement house	Institution located in a poor neighborhood that provided numerous community services such as medical care, child care, libraries, and classes in English
532765482	nativism	The belief that native-born Americans are superior to foreigners
532765483	evolution	the process in which inherited characteristics within a population change over generations such that new species sometimes arise
532765484	New immigration	The second major wave of immigration to the U.S.; between 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.
532765485	social gospel	Movement led by Washington Gladden - taught religion and human dignity would help the middle class over come problems of industrialization
532765486	Hull House	Settlement house founded by progressive reformer Jane Adams in Chicago in 1889--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.
532765487	American Protective Association	An organization created by nativists in 1887 that campaigned for laws to restrict immigration. Anti-Catholic
532765488	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.
532765489	Chautauqua movement	One of the first adult education programs. Started in 1874 as a summer training program for Sunday School teachers, it developed into a travelling lecture series and adult summer school which traversed the country providing religious and secular education though lectures and classes.
532765490	Comstock Law	is a United States federal law which made it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, and/or lascivious" materials through the mail, including contraceptive devices and information
532765491	18th Amendment	Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages
532765492	Jane Adams	Social reformer who worked to improve the lives of the working class. In 1889 she founded Hull House in Chicago, the first private social welfare agency in the U.S., to assist the poor, combat juvenile delinquency and help immigrants learn to speak English.
532765493	Florence Kelley	1893 helped persuade Illinois to prohibit child labor and limit the number of hours women worked; helped found the National Child Labor Committee
532765494	Mary Baker Eddy	Founded the Church of Christian Scientists and set forth the basic doctrine of Christian Science.
532765495	Charles Darwin	English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)
532765496	William James	founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment; wrote first psychology textbook - The Principles of Psychology
532765497	Horatio Alger	Popular novelist during the Industrial Revolution who wrote "rags to riches" books praising the values of hard work
532765498	Carrie Chapman Catt	Spoke powerfully in favor of suffrage, worked as a school principal and a reporter ., became head of the National American Woman Suffrage, an inspiried speaker and abrilliant organizer. Devised a detailed battle plan for fighting the war of suffrage.
532765499	Cardinal James Gibbons	This man was devoted to American unity, he was extremely popular with Roman Catholics and Protestants. Bishop of Baltimore who supported the Knights of Labor
532765500	Dwight L. Moody	Americas most famous evangelist during the 19th century, he brought the tradition of old time revivalism to the industrial city.