Chapter 25 Flashcards
Settlement houses, such as Hull House, engaged in all of the following activities except
evangelical religious instruction
One of the early symbols of the dawning era of consumerism in urban America was
large department stores
Which one of the following has the least in common with the other four
bedroom communities
The New Immigrants who came to the United States after 1880
were culturally different from previous immigrants
A bird of passage was an immigrant who
came to America to work for a short time and then returned to Europe
New Immigrant groups were regarded with special hostility by mainly nativist Americans because
their religions were distinctly different and some New Immigrants were politically radical
While big city political bosses and their machines were often criticized, they proved necessary and effective in the new urban environment because
they were more effective in serving urban immigrants’ needs than weak state or local governments
The major factor in drawing country people off the farm and into the big cities was the
availability of industrial jobs
Prominent Protestant pastors like Walter Rauschenbusch and Washington Gladden argued that
the Christian Gospel required that churches address poverty and other burning social issues of the day
In the new urban environment, most liberal Protestants
rejected biblical literalism and adapted religious ideas to modern culture
Besides serving immigrants and the poor in urban neighborhoods, settlement workers like Jane Addams and Florence Kelley
actively lobbied for social reforms like anti-sweatshop laws and child labor laws
The place that offered the greatest opportunities for American women in the period 1865-1900 was
the big city
In the 1890s, white collar positions for women as secretaries, department store clerks, and telephone operators were largely reserved for
native-born Americans
The vast majority of employed female workers in the late nineteenth century were
single
Labor unions favored immigration restriction because most immigrants were all of the following except
opposed to factory labor
The American Protective Association
supported immigration restrictions
The intellectual development that seriously disturbed the churches in the late nineteenth century was the
biology of Charles Darwin
The new, research-oriented modern American university tended to
de-emphasize religious and moral instruction in favor of practical subjects and professional specialization
Booker T. Washington believed that the key to political and civil rights for African Americans was
economic independence
That a talented tenth of American blacks should lead the race to full social and political equality with whites was the view of
W.E.B. DuBois
Black leader, Dr. W.E.B. DuBois
demanded complete equality for African Americans
Which of the following was not among the major new research universities founded in the post-Civil War era
Harvard University
The two late-nineteenth-century newspaper publishers whose competition for circulation fueled the rise of sensationalist yellow journalism were
William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer
American newspapers expanded their circulation and public attention by
printing sensationalist stories of sex and scandal
General Lewis Wallace’s book, Ben Hur
defended Christianity against Darwinism
American novelist’ turn from romanticism and transcendentalism to rugged social realism reflected the
materialism and conflicts of the new industrial society
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
Which of the following sports was not developed in the decades following the Civil War
baseball
The Darwinian theory of organic evolution through natural selection affected American religion by
creating a split between religious conservatives who denied evolution and accomodationists who supported it
Henry George argued that the windfall real estate profits caused by rising land prices should be
taxed at a 100 percent rate by the government
