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    Chapter 25

    Urbanization, Immigration, and Culture, 1865–1900


    2. Define the term “New Immigration.” In what ways was the “New Immigration” different from
    the “Old Immigration.”? - 1850-1870: 2 million immigrants; “old immigrants”: anglo-saxon, white,
    prtestant, literate, accustomed to some form of representative government, wanted out of city
    jobs (farming); “new immigrants: southern/eastern european (result of urbanization of Europe),
    orthadox/jewish, little democracy, illiterate/impoverished

    3. What was the attitude of the government to this mass influx of immigrants? To whom did the
    immigrants turn for assistance? Describe the mission of Jane Addams. - nonexistent; no laws in
    place to help assimilate new immigrants into city; duty fell to political machines (like Boss
    Tweed); nativism was a driving force against immigrants; 1882: restrictive laws set against
    immigrants

    5. How was Darwinism viewed as a threat by organized religions at this time? - evolution and
    natural selection; seen a blasphemy to religious organizations and rejected by all faiths; 1875:
    scientists embraced evolution just not natural selections; “accommodationists” refused to accept
    bible as both historical and scientific realizing hostility to science would alienate new believers.

    6. In terms of Black Americans and a segregated America, contrast the beliefs of Booker T.
    Washington to W.E.B. DuBois. - washington: avoiced issues of social equality when creating
    education of blacks in south; accepted segregation in return for resources; thought useful trades
    to that black could gain respect and economic security; DeBois: against segregation; demanded
    full rights for black; teaching kids trades condemned their race to manual labor

    7. What is “yellow journalism”? How did the newspapers of this time reflect this new journalism?
    Explain. Who were the journalistic competitors who emerged at this time? - Joseph Pulitzer;
    over exaggerated journalism; use of colored comic supplements; semi literate immigrant
    audience

    9. Describe the two sided who had drawn battle lines with regards to the “New Morality.” -
    Victoria Woodhull + Tennessee Claflin; free love, divorce, and more scandalous ideals. Anthony
    Comstock resisted their ideas; helped pass the 1873 notorious "Comstock Law" as a defender
    of sexual purity. It boasted the confiscation no fewer than 202,679 "obscene pictures and
    photos"; 4,185 "boxes of pills, powders, etc., used by abortionists"; and 26 "obscene pictures,
    framed on walls of saloons." He also proudly claimed to have led 15 people to suicide.

    10. With regards to Women’s Suffrage, describe the role of the following individuals: Elizabeth
    Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Ida B. Wells.- National American
    Woman Suffrage Association was formed in 1890 by militant suffragists. Its founders included
    aging pioneers like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who had helped organize the first women's rights
    convention in 1848, and her long-time comrade Susan B. Anthony, the radical Quaker spitfire
    who had courted jail by trying to cast a ballot in the 1872 presidential election. Carrie Chapman
    Catt spearheaded the new generation of 1900s reformers. Under Catt, reformers
    de-emphasized the argument that women deserved the vote as a matter of right, because they
    were in all respects the equals of men. Instead Catt stressed the desirability of giving women
    the vote if they were to continue to discharge their traditional duties as homemakers and
    mothers in the increasingly public world of the city. Ida B. Wells spearheaded a protest against
    the heinous lynching of three respected black businessmen in Memphis. Faced with threats on
    her life, Wells fled from the South, persevering with her tenacious anti lynching campaign from
    the North and from England

    Walter Rauschenbusch/ “Social Gospel” - pastor of a German Baptist Church in New York City;
    pioneered the teaching of “social gospel”, claiming that churches must address the burning
    social issues of the day.

    Florence Kelley - In 1893, successfully lead a settlement house aided action for the creation of
    anti sweatshop laws that helped protect women and banned child labor.

    American Protective Association, 1887 - APA; nativist association urged the voting against of
    Roman Catholics, and funded advertisements telling inflammatory stories about runaway nuns,
    and other anti-Catholic propaganda.

    Mary Baker Eddy - creator of The Church of Christ, Scientist (Christian Science), emphasized
    that science and health were connected to religion.

    George Washington Carver - Slave-born; joined Booker T. Washington; worked as a teacher


    and researcher, discovering hundreds of new uses for the lowly peanut (shampoo, axle grease),
    sweet potato (vinegar), and soybean (paint).

    NAACP (1910) - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People by DuBois.

    Joseph Pulitzer /William Randolph Hearst - journalistic tycoons that emerged around the turn of
    the century. “yellow journalism”; Hearst built up a powerful chain of newspapers, beginning with
    the San Francisco Examiner In 1887.

    Carrie Nation - prohibitionist lecturer, "All Nations Welcome But Carrie" became a standard
    saying in saloons throughout the land; first husband had died of alcoholism. brought
    considerable disrepute to the prohibition movement because of the violence of her one-woman
    crusade.

    Clara Barton - launch the American Red Cross (originally a Swiss organization) in 1881. She
    was known as an "angel" of Civil War battlefields.

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