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APUSH Chapter 25
APUSH 2014/2015
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jane Addams | established the Hull House in Chicago; condemned war and poverty; won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 |
| Florence Kelley | battled for the welfare of women, children, blacks, and consumers; served for 3 decades as general secretary of the National Consumers League |
| Mary Baker Eddy | author and founder of a popular religion that was based on the principles of spiritual healing |
| Charles Darwin | wrote in the Origin of Species in 1859 that humans had evolved over time and were not created by God; very controversial |
| Booker T. Washington | a former slave who educated blacks in many useful trades; avoided the topic of social equality; pushed for economic independence |
| W.E.B. Du Bois | received a PhD from Harvard; demanded complete racial equality for blacks; founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| William James | a behavioral psychologist who focused on the psychology of religion; developed pragmatism, the belief that the truth is to be tested by practical ideas and actions |
| Henry George | idealist writer; wrote the Progress and Poverty Treastice which was controversial; lectured widely |
| Horatio Alger | wrote juvenile fiction with the message that virtue is rewarded with success |
| Mark Twain | wrote satire; coined the term Gilded Age; created a new less formal breed of writing; received an honorary degree from Oxford in 1907 |
| Charlotte Gilman | regarded as a feminist prophet; urged that women could contribute to the community; practiced exercise and meditation |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | de-emphasized the argument that women should be equal because it is a matter of right, instead presented an ultimatum: women would not continue housekeeping if they were not given equality |
| Cardinal James Gibbons | cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church; second American to receive such a distinction |
| Dwight L. Moody | Protestant evangelist; preached a gospel of kindness and forgiveness |
| megalopolis | a very large urban complex |
| settlement house | a house created for immigrants to live in; often provided services such as child care and English classes |
| nativism | anti-immigration sentiment |
| evolution | the belief that humans have changed over time to become what they are today; contradicts the religious Creation story |
| pragmatism | the belief that the truth is to be tested by practical ideas and actions |
| yellow journalism | journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers |
| New Immigration | mostly Southern and Eastern Europeans; Roman Catholic; did not speak English |
| social gospel | the religious doctrines preached by those who believed that the churches should directly address economic and social problems |
| Hull House | created by Jane Addams; a prominent settlement house that offered counseling, child care, and cultural activities |
| American Protective Association | a nativist organization that attacked the new immigrants, especially Roman Catholics |
| Salvation Army | an urban charitable Christian organization; its goal was to benefit the poor |
| Chautaugua movement | a educational program for adults; public lea cures and home study |
| Morrill Act | established federally-funded universities; purpose was to promote agricultural and mechanical schools |
| Comstock Law | made it illegal to send "obscene" material through the mail |
| Women's Christian Temperance Union | a women's organization founded by Frances Willard to oppose alcohol consumption |
| Eighteenth Amendment | established in 1919; temporarily prohibited the consumption of alcohol in the US |
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