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APUSH: Chapter 18
APUSH Chap 18: Victorians Make the Modern: (1880-1917) Vocab
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Plessy v. Ferguson | 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal "separate but equal" |
Young Men's Christian Association | Introduced in Boston in 1851, the YMCA promoted muscular Christianity, combining evangelism with athletic facilities where men could make themselves "clean and strong." |
N*gro Leagues | All-African American professional baseball teams where black men showcases athletic ability & race pride. Organized separately from white leagues that were made up of all blacks. The leagues thrived until the desegregation of baseball after World War II. |
Sierra Club | America's environmental organization founded in 1892 in San Fransisco. President was John Muir group was pushed by the wealthy to conserve the nature (despite all the land the already own and "corrupted") - to preserve and enjoy mountains |
National Park Service | federal agency founded in 1916 and signed by President Woodrow Wilson that provided comprehensive oversight/supervise of the growing system of national parks. and monuments |
National Audubon Society | in honor of antebellum naturalist John James Audubon, a national organization formed in 1901 that advocated for broader government protections for wildlife. Women were also vital and promoted boycotts of hats with plumage. |
Comstock Act | 1873 law that prohibited circulation of "obscene literature," defined as including most information on sex, reproduction, and birth control. |
liberal arts | form of education by President Charles W. Eliot a where students chose from a range of electives, shaped their own curricula.The traditional curriculum included grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy |
Atlanta Compromise | 1895 address by Booker T. Washington that urged whites and African Americans to work together for the progress of all. Delivered at the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta, the speech was widely interpreted as approving racial segregation. |
maternalism | belief that women should contribute to civic and political life through their special talents as mothers, Christians, and moral guides. placed this ideology into action by creating dozens of social reform organizations. |
Women's Christian Temperance Union | founded by reformer Frances Willard and others to oppose alcohol consumption. was dedicated to the idea of the 18th Amendment - the Amendment that banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol as it was a maternalistic goal |
National Association of Colored Women | created in 1896 by African American women to provide community support. arranged care of orphans, founded homes for the elderly, advocated temperance, undertook public health campaigns. helped fight poverty, segregation, lynchings, and Jim Crow laws |
National American Woman Suffrage Association | formed by leading suffragist in the late 1800s to organize the women's suffrage movement. Led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. won ballots is Mississipi, Idaho, and Utah. could now vote in municipal, school elections, and liquor referenda |
Feminism | the belief that women should possess the same political, economical, and social rights as men - gender equality |
natural selection | process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits. |
Social Darwinism | The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion. |
Eugenics | study of factors that influence the hereditary qualities of the human race and ways to improve those qualities. eugenicists believed people with mental deficiencies should not reproduce |
Naturalism | A nineteenth-century literary movement that was an extension of realism and that claimed to portray life exactly as it was. - believed that humans were not truly rational thinkers - belief that everything was natural |
realism | 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be |
Modernism | cultural movement embracing human empowerment and rejecting traditionalism as outdated. Rationality, industry, and technology were cornerstones of progress and human achievement. |
American Protective Association | organization created by nativists in 1887 that campaigned for laws to restrict immigration. believed that all schools should be protestant opposed to catholic or jewish |
Social Gospel | movement in the late 1800s / early 1900s which emphasized charity and social responsibility as a means of salvation. the goal was to renew religious faith through dedication to justice and social welfare |
Fundamentalism | Literal interpretation/strict adherence to basic principles of a religion (religious branch, denomination, sect). by the form of religion. Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture/Bible |
Thomas Edison | shrewd entrepreneur, businessman, and American inventor from Ohio best known for inventing the electric light bulb, acoustic recording on wax cylinders, and motion pictures. |
John Muir | Naturalist raised by stern Scots Presbyterian family on Wisconsin farm, who believed the wilderness should be preserved in its natural state. He was largely responsible for the creation of Yosemite National Park in California. and founded the sierra club |
Brooker T. Washington | Prominent black American, born into slavery believed that racism would end once blacks acquired labor skills and proved their economic value to society, was head of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881. His book "Up from Slavery." - atlanta compromise address |
Frances Willard | Became leader of the WCTU. She worked to educate people about the evils of alcohol. She urged laws banning the sale of liquor. Also worked to outlaw saloons as step towards strengthening democracy. |
Ida B. Wells | African American journalist from illonois. published statistics about lynching, urged African Americans to protest by refusing to ride streetcards or shop in white owned stores. founder of national association of colored women |
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) | American novelist who grew up in Hannibal, Missouri. wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. portrayed essence of life and speech; used American vernacular influenced future fiction writers |
Billy Sunday | Moodys successor, preacher, former baseball player, American fundamentalist minister from Iowa; used colorful language and powerful sermons to drive home the message of salvation and evangelism through Jesus and to oppose radical and progressive groups. |