Chapter 25 Test Notes .
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 The tremendously rapid growth of American cites in the post civil war decades was... | a trend that affected Europe as well . |
| The major factor in drawing country people off the farms into the big cities was... | the availabilty of industrial jobs . |
| One of the early symbols of the dawning era of consumerism in urban eras was... | the rise of large department store . |
| Prevalent in the move to the cities were... | Slums, dumbbell tenements, flophouses and the Lung Block . |
| The new immigrants who came to the United States after 1880 were... | culturally different from previous immigrants . |
| Most new immigrants came to escape.. | the poverty and backwardness of Southern Italy . |
| 'Birds of Passage' were.. | people who came to America to work for a short period of time and then returned to Europe . |
| Most new immigrants.. | tried to preserve their Old Country culture in America . |
| In the new urban environment most liberal Protestants... | rejected biblical liberalism and adapted religious ideas to modern culture . |
| The Darwinism theory of organic evolution through natural selection.. | Affected religion by creating split between religious conservatives who denied evolution and accomadationist who supported it . |
| Settlement House such as Hull House engaged in.. | child care, instruction of English, Cultural activities, social reform lobbying . |
| The big city offered the greatest opportunities for American women.. | between 1865 and 1900 . |
| In the 1890s positions for women as secretaries, department store clerks, and telephone workers were... | reserved for the native born . |
| Labors unions favored immigration restriction because most of the immigrants were.. | used as strikebreakers, willing to work for lower wages, Difficult to unionize, Non-english speaking . |
| The American Protective Association supported.. | immigration restrictions . |
| Roman Catholics responded... | favorably to new immigrants . |
| Modern American Universities tended.. | to de-emphasize religious and moral instruction in favor of practical subjects and professional specialization . |
| The pragmatists were.. | a school of American philosophers who emphasized the provisional and fallible nature of knowledge and value of ideas that solved problems . |
| Americans offered growing support for a free public education system because.. | they accepted the idea that a free government cannot function without educated citizens . |
| Booker T. Washington believed.. | the key to political and civil rights for African Americans was economic independence . |
| As a leader of the African American community Booker T. Washington.. | promoted black self help but did not challenge segregation . |
| W.E.B. Dubois... | promoted the idea of the talented tenth . |
| The 'talented tenth philosophy' was.. | that a talented tenth of American Blacks should lead the race to full social and political equality . |
| WEB demanded | complete equality for African Americans . |
| The Morrill Act of 1862... | granted public lands to states to support higher education . |
| The post Civil War era.. | witnessed an increase in compulsory school attendence laws . |
| The the decades after the Civil War.. | college education for women came more common . |
| Colleges formed in the post Civil War era include: | The University of California, Johns Hopkins,University of Chicago and Stanford . |
| During the industrial revolution, | life expectancy measurably increased . |
| The public library movement across America was.. | greatly aided by the financial support of Andrew Carnegie . |
| American newspapers expanded by... | printing sensational stories of sex and scandal . |
| Henry George believed that... | the root of social inequality and social injustice lay in landowners who gained unearned wealth from rising land values . |
| Henry George also felt that.. | the windfall real estate profits caused by rising land prices should be taxed at 100 percent rate by the government . |
| General Lewis Wallace's book Ben Hur.. | defended Christianity versus Darwinism . |
| Several late nineteenth century writers came to prominence... | Lewis Wallace, Horatio Alger, Henry James, William Howells . |
| American novelist turn from romanticism and transcendentalist to rugged social realism reflected.. | the materialism and conflicts of the new industrial society . |
| Mark Twain, William Dean Howell, Stephen Crane, and Kate Chopin were... | post civil war writers that reflected the increased attention to social problems of those from less affluent backgrounds . |
| In the course of the late 19th century.. | family size gradually declined . |
| By 1900, | advocates of women's suffrage argued that the vote would enable women to extend their roles as mothers and homemakers to the public world . |
| One of the most important factors leading to an increased divorce rate in the late 19th century was.. | the stress of urban life . |
| Although women wanted the right to vote it... | was a segregated fight . |
| The National American Woman Suffrage Association... | limited its membership to whites . |
| The growing prohibition movement especially reflected... | the concerns of middle class women . |
| The term richardsonian in the late 19th century pertained to... | architecture . |
| During industrialization Americans increasingly... | shared a common and standard popular culture . |
| Basketball, bicycling, croquet, and college football were.. | all developed in the decades following the civil war . |
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