Exam 4: America Moves to the City, 1865-1900

The text's authors assert that "women were growing more independent in the urban environment of the cities" in the late nineteenth century. What did the city environment have to do with women's liberation, and what forms did their new independence take? What were the limitations of this new economic and social independence for women of certain ethnic and racial backgrounds?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Progress and Poverty

Some historians have called pragmatism "America's only distinctive contribution to philosophy." In what way might it be true to say that pragmatism reflected unique qualities of American society and culture? How would pragmatists respond to the charge that theirs was an anti-intellectual philosophy?

The religious denomination that was most positively engaged and associated with the New Immigration was

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Louis Agassiz

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Theodore Dreiser

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -new morality

The pragmatists were a school of American philosophers who emphasized

The two late-nineteenth-century newspaper publishers whose competition for circulation fueled the rise of sensationalistic yellow journalism were

The move to cities led to what major and enduring change in American lifestyles?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Anti-Saloon League

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Young Men's Christian Association/Young Women's Christian Association

The development of electric trolleys in the late nineteenth century transformed the American city by

The major factor in drawing country people off the farms and into the big cities was the

Match each of these late-nineteenth-century writers with the theme of his work. A.Lewis Wallace B.Horatio Alger C.Henry James D.William Dean Howells 1)Success and honor as the products of honesty and hard work 2)Anti-Darwinism support for the Holy Scriptures 3)Contemporary social problems like divorce, labor strikes, and socialism 4)Psychological realism and the dilemmas of sophisticated women.

Describe the impact of the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin on American religious and cultural life? Why did many people find Darwin's ideas challenging or difficult?

In the 1890s, white collar positions for women as secretaries, department store clerks, and telephone operators were largely reserved for

How were the growing social class divisions in large American cities reflected in the provision of different forms of art, music, and recreation for the elite and the masses?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -liberal Protestantism

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Jack London