Nativism pg 493
A fear or hatred of immigrants, ethnic minorities, or alien political movements
American Protective Association pg 495
Nativists founded in 1887.
Tenement pg 497
Four to six story residential apartment house, once common in NY and certain other cities, built on a tiny lot with little regard for adequate ventilation or light.
Louis H. Sullivan pg 501-502
1890's skyscrapers rise
James Naismith pg 503
Invented the game of basketball. he attached peach baskets to the edge of an elevated running track in the YMCA gym and drew up what are still the basic rules of the game. The first basketball was a soccer ball.
Walter Camp pg 504
The athletic director and football coach of Yale cut the size of teams from 15 to 11, invented the scrimmage line, the four down system, and the key position of quarterback.
Settlement houses pg 506
Community centers, founded by reformers like Jane Addams and Lillian Wald beginning in the 1880's, that were located in poor urban districts of major cities; the centers sought to Americanize immigrant families and provide them with social services and a political voice.
Jane Addams pg 506
Founder of Hull House in 1889
Review the main thesis of Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class (1899). pg 487
Theorized that middle class consumption was done mainly for superficial purposes.
In terms of family size, describe the middle-class family of the late nineteenth century.
What accounts for this family size? pg 487
2-3 children.Their families were smaller mostly because they married later in life and practiced abstinence, though during the last half of the century contraceptive devices were both more reliable and more available commercially.
Review the working conditions, pay, and career options for women in the late nineteenth century. pg 488
Careers in the sewing/textile trades, nursing.
Girl in textile shop made .48 cents a day. Store clerks and typewriters earned more than unskilled labor, more pleasant working conditions but no opportunities for promotion or management.
According to your authors, how common was the rags-to-riches story? That is to say, were most Americans likely to share in the experience of someone like Andrew Carnegie? pg 491
The unrealistic expectations inspired by the rags to riches myth more than the absence of real opportunity probably explains why so many workers, even when expressing dissatisfaction with life as it was, continued to subscribe to such middle class values as hard work and thrift - that is, they continue to hope.
From which part of the world were the "new" immigrants of the 1880s? pg 493
Europe
What impact did social Darwinism have American immigration restrictions? pg 493
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Who was often blamed for cholera epidemics? pg 498
immigrants
Review the impact of the electric trolley on American cities. pg 500
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What was the Social Gospel and what did its adherents advocate? pg 505
It focused on improving living conditions rather than on saving souls, it advocated civil service reform, child labor legislations, regulation of big corporations, and heavy taxes on incomes and inheritances.The most influential preacher was Washington Gladden.
What is the origin of the phrase "What would Jesus do?" pg 506
Chalres M. Sheldon asks in best selling 'In His Steps' in 1896
How do your authors characterize the response by many intellectuals (e.
g. Walt Whitman and Henry James) to the rise of an industrial America? pg 507-508
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Samuel L. Clemens pg 519
Mark Twain's real name is Samuel Clemons.
Pragmatism pg 524
A philosophical system, chiefly associated with William James, that deemphasized abstraction and assessed ideas and cultural practices.
William James pg 524
Author: The portrait of a lady (1881), showed how literature could prove the depths and complexities of human relationships
Chautauqua movement pg 525
founded by John H. Vincent, a Methodist minister; and lewis Mille, and Ohio manufacturer of farm machinery.
Joseph Pulitzer pg 526
The first newspaper editor to reach a truly massive audience without abandoning his basic integrity.
Review your authors' description of the typical American college in 1870. pg 512
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Which American university created an elective system of course offerings? pg 512
Harvard
With regard to their contributions to the American educational system, what did Johns Hopkins, Jonas Clark, and John D. Rockefeller have in common? pg 512-513
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Vassar College holds an important "first" in American educational history.
What is it? pg 513
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What was the main argument of Thorstein Veblen's The Higher Learning in America? pg 514
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Review Johann Friedrich Herbart's view of teaching. pg 515
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Review the basic ideas of progressive education, especially those of its leading proponent John Dewey. pg 515
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The ideas of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. had a great impact on which part of American intellectual life? pg 515
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What was the major argument made by those who promoted the theory known as the Teutonic origins of democracy? pg 518
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Describe Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis. pg 518
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What themes dominated the trend toward realism in literature? pg 518
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Which book is cited by your authors as the first book to portray sex honestly? pg 521
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Which style of painting is associated with late nineteenth century American painters such as Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins: impressionism, neo-classicism, realism, or naturalism? pg 521
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In terms of his commitment to both philanthropy and the dissemination of knowledge, which well known industrialist contributed large sums to the construction of public libraries? pg 526
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