Chapter 25 Test Flashcards
The United States was unique in the rapidity and scale of growth in its large cities
F
The largest root cause of the new immigration was the inability of the European economy to support millions of peasants who were driven off their land
T
Female social workers established settlement houses to aid struggling immigrants and promote social reform, while also advancing women’s opportunities
T
American Protestantism was dominated by liberal denominations that adapted religious ideas to modern culture and promoted a social gospel rather than biblical literalism
T
Catholic, Jewish, and Orthodox immigrants often initially clustered in their own neighborhoods, places of worship, and schools
T
Almost all American Protestants eventually accepted Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theories as well as nonliteral interpretations of the Bible
T
In the late nineteenth century, secondary (high school) education was increasingly carried on by private schools
F
Booker T Washington believed that the most talented blacks should be educated for political leadership in academically rigorous black colleges
F
American higher education depended on both public land grant funding and private donations for its financial support
T
Urban newspapers often promoted a sensational yellow journalism that emphasized sex and scandal rather than politics or social reform
T
Post civil war writers like Mark Twain and William Dean Howells turned from social realism toward fantasy and science fiction in their novels
F
There was growing tension in the late nineteenth century between women’s traditionally defined sphere of family and home and the social and cultural changes of the era
T
The new urban environment generally weakened the family but offered new opportunities for women to achieve social and economic independence
T
American urban planners focused on preserving green belt suburbs rather than the grand schemes for urban beatification developed in Paris and other European countries
F
The new cities glittering consumer economy was symbolized especially by the rise of
Large, elegant department stores
Rapid and uncontrolled growth made American cities places of both exciting opportunity and severe social problems
T
