Multiple Choice Questions

black institute in Washington D.C.
  • Dime novels
  • Chautauqua
  • Vassar
  • Howard
passed in 1919; prohibition amendment
  • 18th Amendment
  • Horatio Alger
  • Buffalo Bill Cody
  • Women's Christian Temperance Union
people who were against foreigners
  • Modernists
  • Mark Twain
  • Nativist
  • Walt Whitman
wrote The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Innocents Abroad, and The Gilded Age; hardly had any formal schooling in Missouri; real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens; also wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; captured frontier realism and humor with American dialect
  • Mark Twain
  • Fundamentalists
  • Booker T. Washington
  • Nativist
made education available to adults
  • Chautauqua
  • Clara Barton
  • Tenements
  • Dime novels
those who accepted Darwin's beliefs as well as Christianity
  • George Inness
  • Fundamentalists
  • Modernists
  • Nativist
American painter in Paris; painted sensitive portrayals of women and children - earned a place among French impressionist painters
  • James Whistler
  • Mary Cassatt
  • Charles Darwin
  • Horatio Alger
painter who was resistant against foreign influences and brought rugged realism and boldness of conception; known for paintings of the sea
  • Winslow Horner
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Settlement houses
  • Joseph Pulitzer
fought for white woman's right to vote; excluded black women since it would be pushing their luck and gave limited membership to whites
  • Florence Kelly
  • National Women Suffrage Association
  • Theodore Dreiser
  • Carrie Nation
pragmatic and businesslike reformer for women's rights; women didn't not emphasized as much that they deserved the vote as a right since there were equals of men; stressed that women should be allowed to vote because they were responsible for health of the family and education of the kids
  • Accommodationists
  • Walking Cities
  • Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Victoria Woodhull
"Kansas Cyclone"; 1st husband died of alchoholism and so she took a hatchet and single-handedly destroyed saloons
  • Carrie Nation
  • Charles Darwin
  • Winslow Horner
  • Jack London
Young Men's and Women's Christian Associations; established before Civil war and combined physical and other kinds of education with religious teachings.
  • Jane Addams
  • Howard
  • YMCA:
  • Political Bosses
believed in free love; divorcee, occasional stockbroker, feminist propagandist; with her sister she published Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly; journal charged that Henry Ward Beecher (famous preacher of the time) that he was having an adulterous affair
  • Victoria Woodhull
  • William Randolph Hearst
  • Cardinal Gibbons
  • Anthony Cornstock
jokes and acrobats; shows for entertainments
  • Vaudeville
  • Tenements
  • Lillian Wald
  • Walking Cities
short paperback novels about the West
  • Lillian Wald
  • Dime novels
  • Anglo-Saxon
  • Vaudeville
famous for nature writing; wrote Call of the Wild and The Iron Heel
  • James Whistler
  • Kate Chopin
  • Winslow Horner
  • Jack London
black writer; poet; wrote Lyrics of Lowly Life; brought a new kind of realism
  • Modernists
  • George Inness
  • Jack London
  • Paul Laurence Dunbar
a concept that came from Germany; younger children went to schools earlier in life
  • Clara Barton
  • Origin of Species
  • Louis Sullivan
  • Kindergarten
wrote The Octopus - saga of the stranglehold of the railroad and corrupt politician on California wheat rancher; its sequel, The Pit, dealt with the making and breaking of speculators on the Chicago wheat exchange
  • Frank Norris
  • Stephen Crane
  • Modernists
  • Mark Twain
grandson of John Quincy Adams and great grandson of John Adams; wrote History of the United States During the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison; defended his heritage; also wrote Monti-Stain-Michel and Chartres and a autobiography of his education and the account of his failures; for his novels, he made women his central characters; called a master of "psychological" ;The Bostonians was the first book about the rising feminist movement
  • Ida B. Wells
  • Henry H. Richardson
  • Henry James
  • William Dean Howells
held in 1893 in Chicago; honored 400th anniversary of Columbus's first voyage; revival of classical architecture in order to celebrate
  • Cardinal Gibbons
  • Land Grant Colleges
  • William Randolph Hearst
  • Colombian Exposition
from Massachusetts; journalist-reformer; published socialistic novel: Looking Backward in which the main character 'looks back' and sees that the government has become ideal in the year 2000 and big business became nationalized to serve public interest; clubs formed under his name and heavily influenced American reform movement at the end of the century
  • Jane Addams
  • Vaudeville
  • Edward Bellamy
  • Lillian Wald
a group that wanted prohibition
  • Fundamentalists
  • George Inness
  • Anti-Saloon League
  • Edwin L. Godkin
antiforeign organization; urged voting against Roman Catholic candidates for office and sponsored publication of lustful fantasies about runaway nuns
  • Land Grant Colleges
  • Political Bosses
  • Departments Stores
  • American Protective Association
teacher-training schools
  • Anthony Cornstock
  • Normal Schools
  • Political Bosses
  • Dime novels
English naturalists who wrote Origin of Species; thought higher forms of life evolved from lower forms through mutation and adaptation; came up with the theory of natural selection
  • Theodore Dreiser
  • Charles Darwin
  • Ida B. Wells
  • Settlement houses
journalist and teacher; inspired black women to start a nationwide antilynching crusade; helped launch black women's club movement - National Association of Colored Women
  • Ida B. Wells
  • Henry H. Richardson
  • Frank Norris
  • Bret Harte
attracted urban middle class-shoppers and provided working-class jobs (many for women); consumerism and showed class division; examples are Macy's and Marshall Field's
  • John Singer Sargent
  • Departments Stores
  • American Protective Association
  • Colombian Exposition
expanded on the Morrill Act; provided federal funds for the establishment of agricultural experiment stations with the land-grant colleges
  • Walt Whitman
  • Buffalo Bill Cody
  • Hatch Act
  • Kate Chopin
1883; brought European music to elite American audiences; "Diamond Horseshoe"
  • Land Grant Colleges
  • Metropolitan Opera House
  • William Randolph Hearst
  • Colombian Exposition
got a high degree of realism in his paintings (meaning portrait sitters got their flaws in pictures)
  • Political Bosses
  • Thomas Eakins
  • Cardinal Gibbons
  • Walking Cities
labor boss; met immigrants and secured jobs wherever there was a demand for industrial labor; could speak both Italian and English; often gave homes to newcomers
  • Walking Cities
  • Cardinal Gibbons
  • Padrone
  • William Randolph Hearst
slums; an area in which many people lived together in small quarters
  • Anthony Cornstock
  • Departments Stores
  • Tenements
  • Hull House
artist from Massachusetts who did much of his work in England; known for a portrait of his mother; dropped out of West Point after failing chemistry
  • Winslow Horner
  • James Whistler
  • Ida B. Wells
  • Walt Whitman
urban Catholic leader; devoted to American unity; popular with Roman Catholics and Protestants; used his liberal sympathy to help the American labor movement
  • Jane Addams
  • Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Cardinal Gibbons
  • Departments Stores
fought for welfare of women, children, blacks and consumers; moved to Henry Street Settlement ; served 30 years as a general secretary of the National Consumer League
  • Women's Christian Temperance Union
  • Florence Kelly
  • Charles Darwin
  • National Women Suffrage Association
invented basketball in 1888
  • James Naismith
  • Winslow Horner
  • Joseph Pulitzer
  • Modernists
belief that one should make themselves equally useful in order to combat racism; did not directly challenge white supremacy; believed that blacks should remain in black communities and become economically independent from whites in order to achieve political stature and civil rights
  • Accommodationists
  • Colombian Exposition
  • Walking Cities
  • Carrie Chapman Catt
white people; more northern Europeans
  • Tuskegee Institute
  • Kindergarten
  • Colombian Exposition
  • Anglo-Saxon
founded the Church of Christ; wrote a book called Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
  • Morrill Act
  • Mary Baker Eddy
  • Anti-Saloon League
  • Social Gospel
urban revivalist; once a shoe salesman; spoke to audiences about forgiveness
  • Anthony Cornstock
  • Kindergarten
  • John Singer Sargent
  • Dwight Lyman Moody
disagreed with Booker T. Washinton; earned a Ph. D. at Harvard (the first blackish person to do so); demanded complete equality for blacks, both socially and economically; helped found the NAACP; demanded that the talented tenth of the black community be given full as well as immediate access to the mainstream of American life; died as a self-exile in Africa
  • Louis Sullivan
  • Departments Stores
  • Jane Addams
  • W.E.B. Du Bois
born in Hungary and nearly blind; leader in sensationalism; Colored comic supplements featured the "Yellow Kid" (became yellow journalism)
  • Augustus Saint-Gaudens
  • Joseph Pulitzer
  • Birds of Passage
  • Ida B. Wells
had a college education; used her talents to teach and do volunteer work, Hull house (American settlement home); condemned war and poverty; won Nobel Peace Prize in 1931
  • Jane Addams
  • Walking Cities
  • Lillian Wald
  • Dime novels
skeptical about religion; an orator (And his name isn't mentioned...)
  • William Randolph Hearst
  • Tuskegee Institute
  • American Protective Association
  • Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll
self taught; became America's leading landscapist
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Jack London
  • George Inness
  • George Washington Carver
gave assistance to immigrants by trading jobs and services for votes; provided jobs on city's payroll, found housing for new arrivals, gave needy gifts of foods and clothing, etc.
  • John Singer Sargent
  • Louis Sullivan
  • Cardinal Gibbons
  • Political Bosses
most of the land given from the Morrill Act became these types of schools; usually state universities
  • Colombian Exposition
  • Land Grant Colleges
  • Dwight Lyman Moody
  • Departments Stores
those who rejected Darwin's beliefs
  • James Whistler
  • Joseph Pulitzer
  • Fundamentalists
  • Jack London
those who worked in America for a number of years and after earning a decent amount of money, they would travel back to their home country
  • Bret Harte
  • Birds of Passage
  • George Washington Carver
  • Emily Dickinson
most popular of the Wild-West shows; the troupe included Indians, live buffalo, and marksmen
  • Morrill Act
  • Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • Mary Baker Eddy
  • Buffalo Bill Cody
crusader against immoral; defender of sexual purity; drove 15 people to suicide
  • Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll
  • Dwight Lyman Moody
  • Tenements
  • Anthony Cornstock
expelled from Harvard for a crude prank; had father's California mine millions and began a power chain of newspaper (San Francisco Examiner); close competitor of Pulitzer;
  • Departments Stores
  • Metropolitan Opera House
  • Accommodationists
  • William Randolph Hearst
poet; poetry wasn't published when she was alive (only two were and those were without her consent); wrote over a thousand short lyrics on scarps of paper
  • James Whistler
  • Henry H. Richardson
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Joseph Pulitzer
journalist-author; didn't have much formal school but had much idealism and human kindness; wrote Progress and Poverty; said that the pressure of growing population on a fixed suplly of land pushed up property values and gave unearned profits on owners of land; a one time, 100 % tax on those profits would get rid of unfair inequalities and stimulate economic growth
  • Edward Bellamy
  • Henry George
  • Hull House
  • Political Bosses
launched the Red Cross
  • Cardinal Gibbons
  • Land Grant Colleges
  • Clara Barton
  • Dime novels
born to an Irish mother and French father; adopted American; most gifted American sculptor one of his most moving works is the Robert Gould Shaw memorial
  • Settlement houses
  • Bret Harte
  • Augustus Saint-Gaudens
  • Ida B. Wells
part of the Buffalo Bill Cody show; an extremely good shooter
  • Annie Oakley
  • Clara Barton
  • Lillian Wald
  • Anglo-Saxon
14th son of a Methodist minister; wrote about underside of urban, industrial life America (Maggie: A Girl of the Streets - story of a poor prostitute who ended up committing suicide [Didn't find a publisher for this story and was published privately]; The Red Badge of Courage - Civil War Recruit under fire); died of tuberculosis
  • William Dean Howells
  • Mark Twain
  • Stephen Crane
  • Emily Dickinson
black writer; fiction writer; wrote short stories in Atlantic Monthly and The Conjure Women; used black dialect and folklore to capture richness of southern black culture
  • Charles W. Chestnut
  • Augustus Saint-Gaudens
  • Emily Dickinson
  • James Whistler
"social novelist"; from Indiana; wrote Sister Carrie (poor working girl in Chicago and New York, becomes mistress, elopes with someone else, makes an acting career)
  • Charles W. Chestnut
  • Theodore Dreiser
  • Carrie Nation
  • Ida B. Wells
where the church take on social issues; science of society and that socialism would be the logical outcome of Christianity
  • Anti-Saloon League
  • Social Gospel
  • Birds of Passage
  • Edwin L. Godkin
run by Jane Addams; American settlement home; located in a poor area but gave help to the poor in English; child-care, adjustment to big-city life, cultural activities
  • Padrone
  • Henry George
  • Hull House
  • Tenements
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