Chapter 24 Flashcards
Jane Addams, Hull House, Settlement house
Addams created Hull House, which is a settlement house to assist immigrants by teaching them how to read, write, and live an American way of life
Florence Kelley
concerned about factory conditions, child labor
Dwight Lyman Moody
created the Moody Bible Institute that pushed for kindness and forgiveness
Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Compromise, Tuskegee
Washington created the Tuskegee Institute which was a trade school to train African Americans. Washington became a leader for the black community as he gave a speech called the Atlanta Compromise which called for African Americans to “pull themselves up from their own bootstraps” —which means to earn your position in society through an education and then get a good job while later worrying about political rights.
WEB Dubois, Talented 10th
Dubois was the first African American who graduated with a PHD from Harvard had a different philosophy where initially living in the North believed all African Americans should be equal immediately, but then believed the talented ten percent of African Americans should immediately receive full rights. Dubois was also a co-founder of the NAACP.
Horatio Alger
wrote rags to riches novels which inspired the poor and immigrants that anyone can improve their lives
Mark Twain
also known as Samuel Clemens wrote the Gilded Age where the Reconstruction Era was full of corruptness and rotten to the core, not just covered in a thin layer of gold
Carrie Chapman Catt
Women’s rights advocate and a leader of the National American Women’s Suffrage Association
Emily Dickinson
female American poet who wrote about nature, love, and death
Jack London
American writer who wrote Call of the Wild and other nature type themes
Victoria Woodhull
radical women’s rights advocate that was widely outspoken
William F Cody aka Buffalo Bill
started a wild west show with Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull.
New immigration
new immigrants that came during the 1890’s who were from Southern and Eastern Europe that had fewer skills and could not speak English. Were typically disliked by Native Americans (not Indians)
Social gospel
charity movement where the church would tackle social issues.
nativism
dislike of immigrants
Evolution
idea by Charles Darwin where people have evolved or changed over centuries of time. Very controversial during this time
Land grant colleges, Morrill Act
land set aside specifically for the development of mostly agricultural colleges
Yellow journalism
exaggerated stories just to sell newspapers by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst
New Morality
discussing new topics like sex, alcohol, and other risque topics
Macy’s
one of the first department stores where a person could buy multiple types of products
American Protective Association
one of the first organizations designed to pressure Congress and other lawmakers to stop or slow immigrants coming to the United States
Salvation army
organization designed to help the poor and unfortunate
Comstock Law
illegal to send risque(immoral) information via mail…ie..abortion info
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
organization led by Carrie Nation, and Frances Willard who would go to bars and saloons to hack them up so men could not drink. Also, linked the use of alcohol and the increase in abuse cases.
