Chapter 25: The Growth of Cities (1865-1900)
Terms to Know:
New Immigrants settlements houses liberal Protestants Tuskegee Institute
Land-grant colleges pragmatism yellow journalism realism
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Naturalism regionalism
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WTCU) City Beautiful Movement World’s Colombian Exposition
People to Know:
Jane Addams Charles Darwin Booker T. Washington W.E.B. DuBois
Joseph Pulitzer William Randolph Hearst John Dewey Carrie Chapman Catt
Horatio Alger Mark Twain Henry James Winslow Homer
Augustus Saint-Gaudens Frederick Law Olmstead
1. What did the Morrill Act help establish in America?
2. Why were labor unions against immigrations and favored immigration restrictions
3. How did Darwin’s theory pose a threat to religion and what two groups formed
-4. What were some reasons as to why cities started to grow very quickly at the end of the 19th century and what
attracted people to the cities
5. In literature, what was realism and what did the following people write about: Mark Twain, William Dean Howells,
Stephen Crane, and Henry Adams
6. What jobs opened up to women in cities and also how were these jobs based on race, ethnicity, and class
7. What did the liberal protestants believe and what did they try to do?
8. What was the social gospel?
9. How was the New Immigration different than the old immigration
10. What did bosses like Boss Tweed offer immigrants in exchange for votes?
11. Know the theme and the title of the works/books the following wrote: Lewis Wallace, Horatio Alger, Henry James,
and William Dean Howells
12. What happened to schools in the post –Civil war period: for elementary, high schools, and colleges/universities
13. What were some leisure activities and also sports that became popular during the late 19th century
14. Who was Jane Addams, what were settlement houses, and what role did settlement houses play in reform
15. What did her Hull House offer to the immigrants who lived in the neighborhood?
16. Who were Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois. What were their views towards segregation and also how to
help African Americans gain political and civil rights
17. What was the American Protective Association? What did it stand for and against?
18. Who were Florence Kelly, and Lillian Wald, What causes did they undertake?
19. How did the curriculum of American universities change in the late 19th century
20. Why did American authors/novelists/writers turn from transcendentalism and romanticism to rugged realism in the
late 19th century
21. Why did Americans offer support for free public education
22. What was a symbol of the increased consumerism in big cities?
23. How did newspapers change during this time period and who were William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer
24. Who helped organize the Women’s American Woman Suffrage Association and what did it fight for and who were members of the group?
25. Who helped aid the public library movement in American?
26. What book did Henry George write and what did he argue for in his book? What book did Edward Bellamy write and what was the story?