Check Your Understanding- Chapter 25 Flashcards
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.
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’ social and economic needs than weak state and local governments.
Labor unions favored immigration restriction because most immigrants were all of the following except
opposed to factory labor.
Two religious groups that gained greatly from the mass immigration of the late nineteenth century were
Catholics and Jews.
After 1875, most biologists and other natural scientists
came around to espouse organic evolution after having initially opposed it.
When liberal Protestantism attempted to accommodate religion to modern science, it also tended to
relegate religion to a private sphere of personal conduct and family life
The “normal schools” that grew dramatically in the late nineteenth century specialized in
educating teachers.
The two major sources of funding for the powerful new American research universities were
state land grants and wealthy, philanthropic industrialists.
W.E.B. Du Bois was best known for supporting
complete social and economic equality for blacks and the best education for their talented tenth
All of the following were true of daily newspapers in the late nineteenth century except
the day of slashing journalistic giants like Horace Greeley was returning.
The journalist-reformer who advocated a single tax was
Henry George.
Anthony Comstock was best known for his crusade against
sexual explicitness and obscenity.
