Chapter 18 Flashcards
Plessy v Ferguson p577 POL
a) a landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
b) allowed segregation
c) eventually overturned after civil rights movement
Young Men’s Christian Association p580 CUL
a) Spiritual organization meant to provide healthy activities for young workers in the cities.
b) helped provide good alternatives for young men
c) still a large organization today
Negro Leagues p581 CUL
a) professional baseball leagues comprising teams predominantly made up of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans.
b) gave blacks an alternative to play baseball
c) eventually ended due to Jackie Robinson breaking color barrier in MLB
Sierra Club p583 CUL
a) oldest and largest grassroots environmental organization in the United States.
b) helped preserve the environment
c) has preserved the environment to the day
National Park Service p583 CUL
a) an agency of the United States federal government that manages all U.S. national parks, many American national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.
b) showed the focus of preserving the environment as well
c) helped preserve parks that became culture and tourist centers
National Audubon Society p583 CUL
a) a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation
b) conserved the environment
c) joined the movement to preserve the environment
Comstock Act p585 POL
a) made it illegal to use the U.S. Postal Service to send any of the following things: erotica, contraceptives, abortifacients, sex toys
b) started to limit what could be ship
c) limited what the postal service could ship
liberal arts p587 CUL
a) are those subjects or skills that in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free person
b) helped culture
c) people use these as main parts of culture
Atlanta Compromise p587 POL
a) an agreement struck in 1895 between Booker T. Washington, president of the Tuskegee Institute, and other African-American leaders, and Southern white leaders.
b) helped make agreements between blacks and whites
c) showed that the two groups could cooperate
maternalism p589 CUL
a) a tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values.
b) people began to focus on things
c) an idea that is very prevalent today
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union p589 CUL
a) the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that “linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity.”
b) strengthened the faith of women
c) provided a strong group for women
National Association of Colored Women p591 CUL
a) organized to refute a letter written by James Jacks, the president of the Missouri Press Association, challenging the respectability of African-American women, and referring to them as thieves and prostitutes.
b) helped bond black women together
c) continued to show that black people would stand up for what they believe
National American Woman Suffrage Association p592 CUL
a) American women’s rights organization was established by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in May of 1890. This and other groups led to the nineteenth amendment: women’s suffrage.
b) helped fight for more women’s rights
c) caused the passing of 19th ammendment
feminism p592 CUL
a) focused on ending legal barriers to female rights, primarily suffrage, considered over after the passage of the 19th amendment
b) worked to give women more power
c) still a prevalent idea today
natural selection p594 CUL
a) the gradual process by which heritable biological traits become either more or less common in a population
b) provided reasoning for why things are the way they are
c) an idea that has been a main debating point recently
Social Darwinism p594 CUL
a) a modern name given to various theories of society that emerged in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Western Europe in the 1870s
b) explained ideas of social actions
c) idea still used today
eugenics p594 WXT
a) the belief and practice which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population.
b) idea of improving people
c) controversial topic currently
realism p594 CUL
a) the attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly
b) improved how people dealt with problems
c) changed how people approach situations
naturalism p594 CUL
a) an approach to philosophical problems that interprets them as tractable through the methods of the empirical sciences or at least, without a distinctively a priority project of theorizing.
b) became an important way of thinking
c) helps approach problems
modernism p595 PEO
a) the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities
b) more people moved to cities
c) caused industrial cities to grow much faster
American Protective Association p600 PEO
a) an American anti-Catholic secret society established in 1887 by American Protestants.
b) split the Christians by their denominations
c) caused problems due to it being against catholics
Social Gospel p600 CUL
a) a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States.
b) caused a changing in the church
c) impacts churches today
fundamentalism p602 PEO
a) strict adherence to the basic principles of any subject or discipline.
b) people became more strongly willed in their beleifs
c) causes many people to stick to one belief that they have
Thomas Edison p576 PEO
a) an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb
b) helped drive innovation at the time
c) made important invention which are used or were invented upon to use today
