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Full Ch.25 vocab
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jane Addams | Started the Hull House in Chicago |
| James Gibbons | An urban catholc leader, devoted to American unity. |
| William James | Influenced by Darwin, he was a harvard grad. |
| Mark Twain | The first famous American author. He developed the term "Gilded Age." |
| Charles W. Eliot | A young chemist that made Harvard a technical school when he became its president. |
| Jack London | A writer that implemented nature and wilderness in his stories. |
| Victoria Woodhull | Fought for women's suffrage. |
| Settlement House | Houses that provided basic needs to the underprivaledged. |
| Nativism | A belief to keep immigrants out of America. |
| "Talented tenth" | The amount of blacks that W.E.B. DuBois said should join the American society mainstream. |
| Paperback | Goofy shories that were looked down on by upperclass society, but widely appreciated. |
| American Fever | The want to come to America. |
| American Protectice Association | A notorious anti-foreign organization, |
| Chautauqua Movement | The movement to improve schools for adult learnings |
| Progress and Poverty | "The great enigma of our times." |
| "Richardsonian" | A writing style developed by Richardson. |
| Nation American Women's Suffrage Association | Started by Elizabeth Cody. |
| Florence Kelley | A strong Battler for women's and children's rights. |
| Booker T. Washington | An ex-slave that fought for black equality. |
| Henry George | The journalist that wrote Progress and Poverty. |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | A major feminist prophet in the 1890's. |
| Emily Dickonson | A very famous American poet. |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | A well-known black author. |
| William F. Cody | A famous show performer. a.k.a. Bufflao Bill Cody |
| New Immigration | Immigrants arriving after the 1880's |
| Evolution | The theory that orgamisms evolved. |
| Land-grant colleges | Colleges whose land was given by the government. |
| New Morality | The new mindset of "free sex" (sex outside of marriage was allowed.) |
| Hull House | Jane Addams's famous settlement house. |
| Salvation Army | An organization that provided free soup to the poor. |
| NAACP | Iba B. Wells and others founded it. |
| Comstock Law | A law that aimed for the removal of obscene photos. |
| Birds of Passage | Immigrants that came to the U.S. for a short time to get money then return to their home country. |
| Dwight Lyman Moody. | A shoe salesman that talked about forgiveness. |
| W.E.B. DuBois | A prominent black rights advocate. |
| Horatio Alger | A very popular American author. |
| Theodore Dreiser | An American Author that wrote about Sister Carrie. |
| Megaloplis | The area directly outside of a city. |
| Social Gospel | Using the teachings of the Bible in real life. |
| Pragmatism | Thinking of new explanations for events. |
| Yellow Journalism | False stories to create sales. |
| Macy's / Marshall Fields | The first of few department stores. |
| On the Origin of Species | A book on evolution written by Darwin. |
| Christian Science | Adding christian ideals to science. |
| Morrill Act | Began land-grant colleges. |
| Women's Christian Temperance Union | Women against alchohol. |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | A famous suffrage advocate. |
| Henry Adams | A famous American author. |
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