APUSH Chapter 25 ✅

"Dumbell" Tenements

Housing for working immigrants and their families, buildings were slums, pinched the middle, very little space in rooms, main bathrooms, unsanitary.

Jane Addams

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

Realism

True to life; opposite of romanticism "the quality or fact of representing a person, thing, or situation accurately or in a way that is true to life"

Ida B. Wells

journalist and teacher; inspired black women to start a nationwide antilynching crusade; helped launch black women's club movement - National Association of Colored Women

Horatio Alger

"Holy Horatio"; born a Puritan and interested in New York newsboys; formula: virtue, honesty, and industry are rewarded by success, wealth and honor (survival of the purest - nonsmokers, nondrinkers, nonswearers, and nonliars)

Naturalism

"in art and literature, it is a style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail" or, "a philosophical viewpoint according to which everything arises from natural properties and causes, and supernatural or spiritual explanations are excluded or discounted"

Regionalism

"the theory or practice of regional rather than central systems of administration or economic, cultural, or political affiliation" or, "the linguistic feature peculiar to a particular region and not part of the standard language of a country"

National American Women's Suffrage Association

1890 Formed by Susan B. Anthony. New suffrage fighters like CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT help create new gains for women - especially western territories like Wyoming where women are allowed to vote in local elections

World's Colombian Exposition of 1893

A.K.A Chicago World's Fair, opened to the public on May 1, 1893 celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's landing in America. More than 75% of population attended

Land-Grant Colleges

An institution of higher education in the United States Designated by a state to receive benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890

Immigration in the 1880's

Before the 1880s, most immigrants had come from WESTERN Europe (Germany, Ireland) and CHINA on the West Coast. Angel Island in San Francisco bay serves as the main entrance point for Asian immigration. By the 1880s, we see more immigrants from SOUTHERN and EASTERN EUROPE Italy, Greece, Poland, and other areas. These groups create areas in the city that help them keep their cultural identity. These "new immigrants" often met resistance from natives out of fear that they would not join unions and work as "scabs"

Charles Darwin

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

Tuskegee Institute

Founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881. created to train African-Americans in agriculture and industry and promote economic progress of the African-American race

Settlement Houses

Important reform institutions in late 19th and early 20th centuries, Chicago Hull House was best known in US, most were large buildings in crowded immigrant slums

Yellow Journalism

Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers.

Sears Roebuck Catalog

Mail order catalog in 1886' originally Montgomery War in 1812, people could order furniture, clothing, etc, and have it mailed to their homes. Became big on the south as a way for them to connect to bigger businesses and mainstream and popular products.

Women's Christian Temperance Union

dedicated to the idea of the 18th Amendment - the Amendment that banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol.

W. E. B. DuBois

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

Booker T. Washington

ex-slave; worked hard to go to school; became the head of a normal and industrial school at Tuskegee, Alabama in a really crappy shack; taught useful trades (in order to gain self-respect and economic security); believed that one should make themselves useful in order to go against white supremacy