Dbq 25 America Move To The City 1865-1900

Ch. 25: America Moves to the City 1865-1900
1. Florence Kelley-She worked at the Hull House and fought for the rights of women, children, African American, and customers. Her work inspired more women to join her.

2. Mark Twain-He was one of the most popular authors in America and a decent lecturer. He used comedy and romantic style in his novel.

3. Nativism-The idea that people hate immigrants because immigrants were all over the place and competed with local people for jobs.

4. Philanthropy-Wealthy people formed private organizations that helped people and foreign nations.

5. Social Gospel-It stated that poor could not help themselves due to the environment so people should help them. Some disagreed because they think the poor was not

working hard enough.

6. Settlement House-It was the place where immigrants lived when they entered America and learned English. They were run by educated middle class women and became the place for reform of women’s and labor’s movements.

7. Women's Christian Temperance Union-It was organized in 1874. It called for prohibition and the Eighteenth Amendment was passed as a temporary solution.

8. Eighteenth Amendment-In 1919, it passed to ban alcohol in America but was later repealed.

Guided Reading Questions:
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Architects such as Louis Sullivan brought new principles of building: the skyscrapers, and allowed more space available on less land. Industrial jobs brought more rural people into factory thus increased population. Electricity, telephones, indoor plumbing and new inventions made life easier in the big cities. Walking city made it easier to for people to walk around.

2. Old immigrants came from Ireland and Western Europe and were educated. They were mostly Protestant and were accustomed to the democratic government in their old country. New immigrants, however, came from southern and eastern Europe were poor and mostly illiterate. They preferred to work in factories rather than go farming as the old immigrants did.

3. Federal and state government didn’t do anything to help the immigrants to manage their new lives. Therefore, political bosses provided things immigrants needed such as jobs, place to live, and food in exchange of votes. The bosses also helped get schools and hospitals built in immigrant neighborhoods. They helped the immigrants in every way and that made immigrants’ transition time

easier.

4. Dwight Lyman Moody was a preacher who brought revivalism to the cities. Cardinal Gibbons was focused to unity and supported labor movement. Salvation Army was a charitable organization that provided care for poor and homeless people. Mary Baker Eddy preached that Christianity heals sickness and gained lots of followers. YMCA stands for Young Men’s Christian Association that established before Civil War and educated people with religious instruction.

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Booker T. Washington went to normal school and taught the idea of self-help and suggested blacks should learn the skills that can feed themselves. He led the Tuskegee Institute and was called accommodationists because his ideas did not directly challenge white supremacy. W.E.B. Du Bois suggested that blacks can learn and pursuit whatever they wanted. George Washington Carver was one of Du Bois’ followers and helped found the NAACP. Du Bois was more educated and demanded complete equality for blacks.

6. Joseph Pulitzer created the New York World that included color comics which received the name Yellow Journalism. Pulitzer was a leader in sensationalism. William Randolph Hearst was Pulitzer’s competitor who introduced large headlines in newspaper and changed American journalism. Cheaper newspapers meant that the content would be filled with rumor and interests of people instead of serious issues.

7. Charlotte Perkins Gilman told women to walk out from home and be independent. Other feminists formed the National Women Suffrage Association after the Civil War. Its founders included Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who set up the first women’s rights convention, and her friend Susan B. Anthony. The most effective leader was Carrie Chapman Catt, who did not said that women should vote because they are equal to men, but suggested that since women were mothers; their voice should be heard on things that are concerned with their roles. Ida B. Wells was an African American journalist who

inspired black women to call for their rights.

8. Women's Christian Temperance Union was organized in 1874 and lead by Frances E. Willard. Carrie Nation led in a more violent way in temperance movement. Anti-Saloon League was formed with members of women singing for rejection of alcohol. 18th Amendment was passed to stop alcohol’s existence in America but was repealed afterward. In the meantime, Clara Barton led American Red Cross and helped a lot during the Civil War. Other organizations protected animals while women were working on the suffrage movement.