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
