Due next Monday, January 13. Chapter 25 questions Answer completely, and always include dates and specific names.

What trends/pull factors contributed to the growth of urbanization in the 19 th century worldwide? What were the largest cities in the world by 1900? (what are they now? Look them up and see if anything has changed!) 2.

What advances in transportation helped cities grow from the size of “walking cities?” How did people buy groceries and other goods in an urban environment? Some Kind Of Wonderful Ost Rar. Describe the types of housing available for the urban poor? What kinds of people lived there, and how did the Great Chicago Fire affect building materials? Describe this disaster. What were the differences between the “New Immigrants” and the “Old?” Who received the harshest treatment, and why? What were the push/pull factors in this wave of immigration for each country (what was going on in Europe)? Did all immigrants stay permanently?

How did political machines flourish in this environment? What services did they provide? How did urban squalor generate religious reformers during the late 19 th century to focus on social issues?

Who were some of the leaders and reformist movements in the cities, and what did they do? What did settlement houses try to do, and what kinds of people ran these? Was there a difference between Protestant and Catholic Christian responses?

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Google “settlement house St. Louis” and report what you find. How did mainline Protestant Christianity respond to scientific development? What specific challenge did Darwin’s work present to some Christians? How was Darwin’s work later (mis)used in regards to the problem of the poor?

What was the connection between this dispute and the novel Ben Hur? What work opportunities were available for women in the cities? Was there a difference between jobs for white women versus women of color?

How did marriage fit into women’s working lives? What does “white-collar” mean when speaking of jobs? Why was there a move to restrict immigration by both the APA and the unions? How were American colleges and universities affected during this time? What is a “research university” and a “liberal arts college,” and what were some important ones founded during this time?

What is the philosophical movement known as “pragmatism?” 12. What is the connection between the waves of immigration during this time and the status of a free public educational system? Why else did public schools become more common and more rigorous? Make a chart to compare the work and explain the main disputes between Booker T.

Washington and WEB DuBois. How did they differ in their visions for the immediate future of African Americans? What in their backgrounds made them so different from each other? Why did Washington receive more support—financial as well as political—from whites? What impact did the industrial revolution have on standard of living and life expectancy? What judgments were leveled at the robber barons in terms of the impact of income disparity in American society by people such as Henry George? What did Edward Bellamy and Horatio Alger think about industry’s impact on society?

What philosophy did Andrew Carnegie develop in regards to his massive personal fortune and the proper uses for it? How was this different from other tycoons (be specific)? How did the newspaper industry change during this time, and who were the most famous newspaper publishers?

What methods did they use to increase circulation? How did American literature change in the way it portrayed the world? What were some important writers and their books? How did attitudes toward family and personal lives (sex! Kim Kardashian!) change after the Civil War?

What effects did this have? How did women’s rights activists attempt to use women’s “traditional” roles to argue for the expansion of women’s rights? What were some important women’s rights groups and their leaders? Was the temperance movement a women’s rights organization?