Chapter 24

Question 1

Jane Addams, Hull House, Settlement house

Answer 1

Addams created Hull House, which is a settlement house to assist immigrants by teaching them how to read, write, and live an American way of life

Question 2

Florence Kelley

Answer 2

concerned about factory conditions, child labor

Question 3

Dwight Lyman Moody

Answer 3

created the Moody Bible Institute that pushed for kindness and forgiveness

Question 4

Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Compromise, Tuskegee

Answer 4

Washington created the Tuskegee Institute which was a trade school to train African Americans. Washington became a leader for the black community as he gave a speech called the Atlanta Compromise which called for African Americans to “pull themselves up from their own bootstraps” —which means to earn your position in society through an education and then get a good job while later worrying about political rights.

Question 5

WEB Dubois, Talented 10th

Answer 5

Dubois was the first African American who graduated with a PHD from Harvard had a different philosophy where initially living in the North believed all African Americans should be equal immediately, but then believed the talented ten percent of African Americans should immediately receive full rights. Dubois was also a co-founder of the NAACP.

Question 6

Horatio Alger

Answer 6

wrote rags to riches novels which inspired the poor and immigrants that anyone can improve their lives

Question 7

Mark Twain

Answer 7

also known as Samuel Clemens wrote the Gilded Age where the Reconstruction Era was full of corruptness and rotten to the core, not just covered in a thin layer of gold

Question 8

Carrie Chapman Catt

Answer 8

Women’s rights advocate and a leader of the National American Women’s Suffrage Association

Question 9

Emily Dickinson

Answer 9

female American poet who wrote about nature, love, and death

Question 10

Jack London

Answer 10

American writer who wrote Call of the Wild and other nature type themes

Question 11

Victoria Woodhull

Answer 11

radical women’s rights advocate that was widely outspoken

Question 12

William F Cody aka Buffalo Bill

Answer 12

started a wild west show with Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull.

Question 13

New immigration

Answer 13

new immigrants that came during the 1890’s who were from Southern and Eastern Europe that had fewer skills and could not speak English. Were typically disliked by Native Americans (not Indians)

Question 14

Social gospel

Answer 14

charity movement where the church would tackle social issues.

Question 15

nativism

Answer 15

dislike of immigrants

Question 16

Evolution

Answer 16

idea by Charles Darwin where people have evolved or changed over centuries of time. Very controversial during this time

Question 17

Land grant colleges, Morrill Act

Answer 17

land set aside specifically for the development of mostly agricultural colleges

Question 18

Yellow journalism

Answer 18

exaggerated stories just to sell newspapers by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst

Question 19

New Morality

Answer 19

discussing new topics like sex, alcohol, and other risque topics

Question 20

Macy’s

Answer 20

one of the first department stores where a person could buy multiple types of products

Question 21

American Protective Association

Answer 21

one of the first organizations designed to pressure Congress and other lawmakers to stop or slow immigrants coming to the United States

Question 22

Salvation army

Answer 22

organization designed to help the poor and unfortunate

Question 23

Comstock Law

Answer 23

illegal to send risque(immoral) information via mail…ie..abortion info

Question 24

Women’s Christian Temperance Union

Answer 24

organization led by Carrie Nation, and Frances Willard who would go to bars and saloons to hack them up so men could not drink. Also, linked the use of alcohol and the increase in abuse cases.