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chapter 25 apush
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jane Adams | Established Hull House. Condemned war as well as poverty. |
| Florence Kelley | A battler for welfare of women children blacks and consumers. General secretary of the National Consumers League. Led women of Hull House into a lobby in 1893 for an Illinois antisweatshop law that protected women workers and prohibited child labor. |
| Mary Baker Eddy | Founded the Church of Christ (Christian Science) in 1879. Preached that the true practice of Christianity heals sickness. (No need for a doctor). Wrote a widely purchased book, Science and Health with a key to the Scriptures. |
| Charles Darwin | English Naturalists who wrote the Origin of the Species in 1859. His theory stated that in nature the strongest of a species survive. Through this process of natural selection the entire species improved. |
| Booker T. Washington | ex-slave who saved $ for education. He believed that blacks must first gain economic equality before they gain social equality. He was President of the Tuskegee Institute and he was a part of the Atlanta Compromise. |
| W.E.B. Du Bois | Helped to form the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1910. |
| William James | a philosopher on Harvard faculty, wrote Principles of Psychology, The Will of to Believe, Varieties of Religious Experience, and Pragmatism; 1842-1910: Helped to express philosophy of the nation. |
| Henry George | A journalist-author and an original thinker. he saw poverty at its worst in India and wrote the classic Progress and Poverty which broke the the best-seller lists. the pressure of a growing population with a fixed supply of land pushed up property values. |
| Horatio Alger | a popular writer of the Post-Civil War time period. He was a Puritan New Englander who wrote more than a hundred volumes of juvenile fiction during his career; the famous "rags to riches" theme. |
| Mark Twain | Americas most popular author, and renowned platform lecturer. romance with comedy. In 1873 with the help of Charles Dudley Warner he wrote The Gilded Age. His best contribution to literature was how he showed frontier realism and humor through dialect. |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Major feminist prophet. Published "Women and Economics" which called on women to abandon their dependent status and contribute more to the community through the economy. She created centralized nurseries and kitchens to help get women into the work force. |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | She was a leader of the women's suffrage movement. She was not successful in accomplishing her goal, but she did spark a movement that would eventually lead to women's right to vote. |
| Cardinal James Gibbons | popular with Roman Catholics and Protestants, as he preached American unity. |
| Dwight L. Moody | This man, part of the social gospel movement, proclaimed the gospel of kindnessand forgiveness and adapted the old-time religion to the facts of city life and founded an institute in 1889 |
| Megalopolis | cities in America that began to grow rapidly in the post Civil War decades. In 1860, no city in the US had a million people. By 1890, Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia had passed the million mark. |
| settlement house | House where immigrants came to live when they came to the US. Taught english and how to get a job. First 1 was the Hull House, run by Jane Addams in Chicago in 1889. Run by educated middle class women. Became centers for reform in women's/labor movements. |
| nativism | a philosophy in which you hate immigrants and have much patriotism |
| evolution | change in a kind of organism over time; process by which modern organisms have descended from ancient organisms |
| pragmatism | Written by William James and this states that everything has a purpose. |
| yellow journalism | Joseph Pulitzer & William Randolph Hearst = lurid yellow press . Strong trumpeted superiority of AngloSaxons & told Americas to spread religion & values to backward people. Opposite of likes of Roosevelt & Henry Cabot Lodge in interpreting Darwinism. |
| New Immigration | 1850's-1880's, more than 5 million immigrants came into America from Europe. Caused problems at first, different languages & religions. They later; however, helped provide the unique cultural diversity that still exists today in the USA. |
| social gospel | preached by many people in the 1880s and said that due to the social environment some poor people could not help their situation. Caused some churches to help the poor, but some disagreed and thought it was their fault. |
| Hull House | Offered instruction in English, counseling to help immigrants deal with American big-city life, childcare services for working mothers, and cultural activities for neighborhood residents. |
| American Protective Association | Antiforeigner organization created in 1887 that urged to vote against Roman Catholic candidates for office. |
| 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. |
| Chautauqua movement | helped benefit adults in education. Launched in 1874 on the shores of Lake Chautauqua, NY. Achieved success through nationwide lectures, featuring speakers like Mark Twain. Also, there were extensive Chautauqua courses of home study. many people enrolled. |
| Morrill Act | Passed after the Southern states had seceded, provided a generous grant of the public lands to the states for support of education. |
| Comstock Law | censored "immoral" material from the public. |
| Women's Christian Temperance Union | organized in 1874 and the white ribbon was the symbol of purity; led by Frances E. Willlard; the league was for prohibition; 1919 the 18th Amendment was passed for national prohibition-was only a temporary solution |
| Eighteenth Amendment | did away with all Liquor, making it illegal. |
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