When was the idea of tax-supported elementary schools adopted nationwide?
Before the Civil War
100
What type of writing did Mark Twain entertain?
A.Regionalism
B.Naturalism
C.Realism
C. Realism
100
Where did most New Immigrants come from in the 1880s?
Eastern and Southern Europe
100
What is the name of Charles Darwin's theory?
Evolution
100
Where did women become more independent?
the urban environment
200
True or False: Crowded cities generally provided better educational facilities than the old one-room rural schoolhouses.
True
200
True or False: Regionalism was the style of writing where authors wrote about local ways of life before industrialization
True
200
What happened to the population after the 1880s?
It nearly doubled
200
What political party refused to accept Darwin's ideas and stuck strictly to the Bible?
Conservatives
200
What national association for women was founded in 1890?
The National American Woman Suffrage Association
300
Who's quote is this?
"In all things that are purely social, we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to a mutual progress."
Booker T. Washington
300
What type of writing did Kate Chopin engage in?
Regionalism
300
What did many immigrants have planned for, after working for a few years?
To return to their native country with large sums of money.
300
How many religious denominations were in the US in the 1890s?
More than 150
300
Name the feminist who encouraged women to leave their lives of dependency and get out into the social workforce.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
400
In what year and where did Booker T. Washington teach at the Black Normal and Industrial School?
He taught in 1881 in Tuskegee, Alabama.
400
T/F: Realism used applied detached scientific objectivity to the study of human beings in their writing.
False
400
What two supplies helped contribute to the population increase? (1 food, 1 plant)
Fish and Grain
400
Where and what was founded to help Dwight Lyman Moody carry out his work?
The Moody Bible Institute was founded in Chicago
400
What did Ida B. Wells help establish?
The National Association of Colored Women
500
From the 1800's to 1900's, what type of schools were becoming a major part of the nation's educational structure?
Private Catholic Parochial schools
500
Name a writer from each of the 3 Types of writing.
Regionalism:Kate Chopin, Bret Harte, Paul Laurence Dunbar
Naturalism:Stephen Crane, Jack London,Theodore Dreiser
Realism:William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James
500
Why was it easy for Immigrants to transition into the hard, American, workforce?
They came from countries with little history of democratic government, where people had grown accustomed to harsh living conditions.
500
Mary Baker Eddy founded a church. Name the church, date it was founded, and the message Eddy preached from it.
The Church of Christ, Scientist was founded in 1879 by Mary Baker Eddy, who preached that the true practice of Christianity heals sickness.
500
What amendment, in what year, banned alcohol in America?