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Question 1

dark and crowded multi-family apartment that most working class citizens lived in.

Answer 1

tenements

Question 2

gaining money through dishonorable or questionable means

Answer 2

grafting

Question 3

What is the Gilded Age? (gilded referring to something being gold on the outside but cheap on the inside)

Answer 3

time period between 1870 and 1900. It was a time of growth, but beneath the surface was corruption, poverty, and a distinct difference between the poor and rich.

Question 4

What did Herbert Spencer do?

Answer 4

introduce Social Darwinism

Question 5

These are houses primarily ran by women that middle class residents lived and help poor residents (mostly immigrants) in.

Answer 5

settlement houses

Question 6

What all did a settlement house offer? (4 things)

Answer 6

• medical care
• recreation programs
• English classes
• hot lunches for factory workers

Question 7

What female college did I miss on the test?

Answer 7

Columbia

Question 8

What is Social Darwinism?

Answer 8

application of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution and natural selection and applying it to human society.