Urban and Social Reforms

How did the number of new immigrants around the turn of the twentieth century affect the number of acculturation programs in the United States?

A large number of immigrants arrived, and they sought acculturation programs at settlement houses.

Who wrote How the Other Half Lives, a book that described the terrible conditions of tenement life in the late 1800s?

Jacob Riis

Which statement best reflects Gladden's ideas as expressed here?

The rich have a moral Christian duty to help the poor.

How is the work of the Salvation Army and other faith-based aid organizations related to the social gospel movement?

The work of these organizations addresses the concept of providing aid to less-fortunate people.

How did temperance reformers believe that drinking was connected to poverty?

They believed drinking took money that less fortunate people needed to live.

In the late 1800s, the social gospel movement was based on the belief that

it was a person's moral duty to help less fortunate people.

What was the goal of the Americanization movement that gained popularity between 1875 and 1910?

to encourage immigrants to assimilate into American culture

In the 1870s, groups of women began marching from church meetings to nearby saloons. They knelt in prayer on the saloon's floor or on the street to block the entrance. The main reason women did this was

to protest the drinking of alcohol

The ideas of the social gospel movement led directly to

urban charity organizations.

The strength of the temperance movement came from

women

Lincoln Steffens was considered a reformer specifically because he

worked to expose problems in business and in politics.

Whom did Steffens blame for the corruption and bad government that existed in US cities in the late 1800s?

the American people

Which of the following was a religious movement at the turn of the twentieth century that sought justice for the less fortunate?

the social gospel movement