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Directions: Know the answer to these questions by the time that we cover the information in class. You will be graded on how intelligently you can relate information to the class when called upon.
Chapter 18 

Directions: Know the answer to these questions by the time that we cover the information in class. You will be graded on how intelligently you can relate information to the class when called upon.

Section 1
· Explain how the building of the nation's railroad network stimulated American industrialization and the growth of large corporations.
· What technological and business innovations of the late19th century were important for new development?

Section 2
· How did industrialization in the South compare with that in the North?

Section 3
· Explain the hazards that industrial workers faced and the psychological adjustments that they had to make.
· Why did industry increasingly employ women and children and how were they treated? 
· What kept alive the "rags to riches: hopes of the American masses? How realistic were these dreams?

Section 4
· Compare the organization, membership, leadership and programs of the labor organizations.

Chapter 19 

Section 1
· Between 1870 and 1900 nearly 11million immigrants entered the U.S. Discuss who came, why they came, where they settled, how they fared and the impact they had on urban America.

Section 2
· Discuss the role of urban political machines and bosses. Include in your answer their emergence, roles and supporters/detractors.
· How successful were pribate charities in serving the needs of the urban poor?

Section 3
· What was the city beautiful movement? What assumptions about the city and the people were made?

pages 540-548

How well does the allegory of the Wizard of Oz fit the real situation with the textbook.Explain what fits well and what problems you see.

FOR YOUR PERSONAL USE  (I don't want you to do this for homework)

Study Guide Chapter 18
FACTS, figures, people, and places.   Be prepared to identify, define, describe, and explain the significance of the people, places, and events listed below.

Jacob Riis
"walking cities"
trolleys
old immigrants
new immigrants
Castle Garden
Ellis Island
dumbbell tenements
Horatio Alger
political boss
machine politics
ward captain
Tammany Hall
"Big Jim" Pendergast
William Tweed
Thomas Nast
"goo-goos"
Robert M. Hartley 
N.Y. Assoc. for Improving the Condition of the Poor
Charles Loring Brace
Children's Aid Society
Josiah Strong
Josephine Shaw Lowell 
Charity Organization Society
Anthony Comstock
Charles Parkhurst
Washington Gladden
Walter Rauschenbusch
Social Gospel
Jane Addams
Hull House
Florence Kelly
Frederick Law Olmstead
Calvert Vaux
Boston's Back Bay
city-beautiful movement
John Harvey Kellogg
Charles W. Post
Aaron Montgomery Ward
Richard W. Sears
F.W. Woolworth


 
 
 

Victorian Morality
Henry Ward Beecher
Catharine Beecher
The American Women's Home
cult of domesticity
Rowland Macy
John Wanamaker
Marshall Field
Charles W. Eliot
 Andrew WhiteN.Y. Knickerbockers
Cincinnati Red Stockings
John L. Sullivan
Scott Joplin
ragtime
the new woman
Richard W. Gilder
E.L. Godkin
genteel culture
Henry James
Mark Twain
Sarah Orne Jewett
regionalists
Theodore dreiser
Stephen Crane
naturalists
Thorstein Veblen
Frank Lloyd Wright
Winslow Homer
Women's Christian Temperance Movement
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"Gibson Girls"
Kate Chopin
William Torrey Harris
Creoles
Cajuns
Dixieland jazz
 
 


ISSUES:  After reading the chapter, you should be able to discuss the following:
 


 
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