Reform Movements and Social Change

Question 1

Religious reform
Social Gospel

Answer 1

The church should lead the social reform, help reduce poverty, crime, disease, illiteracy, etc.

Question 2

Religious Reform
Charles Darwin

Answer 2

Social Theorists take Darwin’s theory of evolution, the best survive through natural selection, while the others die. Supports Darwinism.

Question 3

Education Reform
Growth

Answer 3

Gives the poor a chance for secondary public education. people want to have educated voters for less corruption. Anti-catholics and anglo-saxon christians fighting one another to get more schools and educate more people.

Question 4

Education Reform
Morrill Act 1862

Answer 4

Created land grants to colleges. Emphasis on science, engineering, as opposed to speaking, and Latin.

Question 5

Education Reform
2nd Morill Act 1890

Answer 5

African Americans would be allowed separate institutions to meet their educational needs. It will provide money, but not land, for these institutions. This is where you get historically black college universities

Question 6

Women
Victoria Woodhull

Answer 6

Pushing for feminist women’s rights. Advocates for Free Love/Contraceptives, condoms, etc. Runs for president, but is caught in the Comstock law, stating that the Free love movement is promoting a degradation of society, materialism, lack of morality.

Question 7

Women
Jane Addams and Hull house

Answer 7

Hull house in Chicago, a settlement house where college women try to help other women, immigrants, helping them with English, child care, etc. Extends women’s roles in society. Lilland Walk Henry Street settlement in New York.

Question 8

Women
Florence Kelly

Answer 8

Protection of women and Children. Leading activist against child labor. Starts pushing for consumer rights. Puts together Woman’s Trade Union League, working for an 8 hour day, and better conditions. Promotes having a strike fund. Leads to the field of Social Work.

Question 9

Women
Temperance

Answer 9

Immigrants are drinking and causing social problems, causing broken houses and crime. Women’s Christian temperance Union and the Anti Saloon League help fight against alcohol consumption.

Question 10

Women
Carrie Chapman Catt

Answer 10

Leader of National American Women’s Suffrage Association NAWSA. Arguing for the basic ideas of women. Women are more moral than men and should be allowed to vote since they haven’t caused any violence under the control of a woman. Wyoming is the first territory to give women the vote.

Question 11

Women
Gibson Girl 1899

Answer 11

The ideal image of a woman. Strong, independent, upper, middle class women are leading the movement. They are socially knowledgable, with leisure time. People are pushing marriage father back, women have fewer children. Lower class doesn’t get the chance to be the Gibson Girl.

Question 12

Booker T. Washington
Views

Answer 12

African Americans should become equal through economic gains. he believed that if African Americans could show their worth in economics, then they were be treated better. This is where you get your Historically Black College Universities

Question 13

Booker T. Washington
Atlanta Exposition

Answer 13

Speech he made outlining that African Americans should show economic gains to gain equality. Undersatns the southern mindset. He is then seen as an accomodationist after his speech is labled the Atlanta compromise

Question 14

W. E. B. Da Boise 1868-1963
Views

Answer 14

Called for complete, political, social, and economic equality. Saw that after the 13, 14, and 15 amendments were made, they should have complete equality. Thought that the black community should be led by the top 10% educated people, called the Talented Tenth. Founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People