Social Caring
Reform
Controlling Behavior
Controlling Behavior 2
100
These reform institutions, kind of like community centers, emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, primarily in industrial cities across the United States.
What are settlement houses?
100
This movement was a Protestant Christian social reform movement that emerged in the late 19th century, primarily in the United States, in response to the social upheavals of industrialization, urbanization, and growing economic inequality. It sought to apply Christian ethics to societal problems such as poverty, labor exploitation, child labor, poor housing, and racial injustice.
What is social gospel movement?
100
Many Americans linked the problems of the cities to the new ____________________.
Hint: Think "easy targets"
What are immigrants?
100
What was the ban on manufacture and sale on alcoholic beverages?
What is prohibition?
200
What was the name of the famous settlement house co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
What is Hull House?
200
True or False: The New York Charity Organization Society (COS) kept files on people they served and would judge certain poor people as "worthy" or "unworthy" of help.
True
200
What is the term for policy favoring native-born Americans over immigrants?
What is nativism?
200
Why did temperance groups oppose drinking? Name one reason.
They believed:
-It led to personal tragedy
-Saloons undermined public morals
-Immigrants were convening to overtake the US in saloons
300
Settlement houses provided a wide range of services and organized many projects to support immigrant and low-income urban communities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Name one.
Education and Language Learning: Offered English language classes, kindergartens, night schools, and civics education to help immigrants adapt to American life.
Child and Family Support: Provided daycare, nurseries, after-school programs, and parent support groups to assist working families.
Health and Wellness: Established health clinics, visiting nurse services, public bathing facilities, and nutritional programs to improve living conditions.
Employment and Economic Assistance: Offered job training, employment placement, vocational education, and savings banks to promote economic independence.
Cultural and Recreational Activities: Hosted music, art, and theater programs, dance classes, sports, and community events to foster cultural expression and social cohesion.
Legal and Social Advocacy: Provided legal aid, housing assistance, and community organizing spaces for labor unions and civic groups, helping to advocate for labor rights and social reforms.
Community Infrastructure: Played a key role in establishing public playgrounds, branch libraries, and neighborhood parks.
300
True or false: Urban churches began to provide social services for the poor in attempt to treat the problems that drove immigrants and low-income citizens to drinking, gambling, and other self-destructive behaviors.
True
300
True or false: Members of the Know-Nothing Party (nativists) took an oath to hire and vote for only Protestants.
True
Members of this party opposed immigrants and Catholics.
300
What is the word for immoral or corrupt behavior, from your lesson?
What is vice?
400
Settlement houses were placed in
A) Poor urban areas
B) Poor suburban areas
C) Rich urban areas
D) Rich suburban areas
....?
What is A?
400
What was the name of the publication of photojournalism that led to many reforms in this time period?
What is How the Other Half Lives?
400
Passage of an exclusionary act in 1882 against this nationality showed how politically effective the nativists were. What nationality?
What is Chinese?
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years. The law made exceptions for travelers and diplomats.
400
What was Comstock Law?
Hint: Think pregnancy and the U.S. mail.
It criminalized the use of the U.S. mail and common carriers (like UPS and FedEx) to transport obscene materials, contraceptives, and any article or information designed to produce an abortion.
500
What city was the Hull House located?
What is Chicago?
500
Who is the author of How the Other Half Lives?
Who is Jacob Riis?
500
What was the movement that organized campaigns to eliminate alcohol consumption?
Hint: Not the name of the ban on manufacture and sale on alcoholic beverages.
What is the temperance movement?
500
The federal government outlawed Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup in 1906. What two harmful substances did this cough medicine contain?
What are alcohol and morphine?