wrote The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The Innocents Abroad, and The Gilded Age; hardly had any formal schooling in Missouri; real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens; also wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; captured frontier realism and humor with American dialect
0%
Mark Twain
0%
Fundamentalists
0%
Booker T. Washington
0%
Nativist
Q.5.
made education available to adults
0%
Chautauqua
0%
Clara Barton
0%
Tenements
0%
Dime novels
Q.6.
those who accepted Darwin's beliefs as well as Christianity
0%
George Inness
0%
Fundamentalists
0%
Modernists
0%
Nativist
Q.7.
American painter in Paris; painted sensitive portrayals of women and children - earned a place among French impressionist painters
0%
James Whistler
0%
Mary Cassatt
0%
Charles Darwin
0%
Horatio Alger
Q.8.
painter who was resistant against foreign influences and brought rugged realism and boldness of conception; known for paintings of the sea
0%
Winslow Horner
0%
Emily Dickinson
0%
Settlement houses
0%
Joseph Pulitzer
Q.9.
fought for white woman's right to vote; excluded black women since it would be pushing their luck and gave limited membership to whites
0%
Florence Kelly
0%
National Women Suffrage Association
0%
Theodore Dreiser
0%
Carrie Nation
Q.10.
pragmatic and businesslike reformer for women's rights; women didn't not emphasized as much that they deserved the vote as a right since there were equals of men; stressed that women should be allowed to vote because they were responsible for health of the family and education of the kids
0%
Accommodationists
0%
Walking Cities
0%
Carrie Chapman Catt
0%
Victoria Woodhull
Q.11.
"Kansas Cyclone"; 1st husband died of alchoholism and so she took a hatchet and single-handedly destroyed saloons
0%
Carrie Nation
0%
Charles Darwin
0%
Winslow Horner
0%
Jack London
Q.12.
Young Men's and Women's Christian Associations; established before Civil war and combined physical and other kinds of education with religious teachings.
0%
Jane Addams
0%
Howard
0%
YMCA:
0%
Political Bosses
Q.13.
believed in free love; divorcee, occasional stockbroker, feminist propagandist; with her sister she published Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly; journal charged that Henry Ward Beecher (famous preacher of the time) that he was having an adulterous affair
0%
Victoria Woodhull
0%
William Randolph Hearst
0%
Cardinal Gibbons
0%
Anthony Cornstock
Q.14.
jokes and acrobats; shows for entertainments
0%
Vaudeville
0%
Tenements
0%
Lillian Wald
0%
Walking Cities
Q.15.
short paperback novels about the West
0%
Lillian Wald
0%
Dime novels
0%
Anglo-Saxon
0%
Vaudeville
Q.16.
famous for nature writing; wrote Call of the Wild and The Iron Heel
0%
James Whistler
0%
Kate Chopin
0%
Winslow Horner
0%
Jack London
Q.17.
black writer; poet; wrote Lyrics of Lowly Life; brought a new kind of realism
0%
Modernists
0%
George Inness
0%
Jack London
0%
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Q.18.
a concept that came from Germany; younger children went to schools earlier in life
0%
Clara Barton
0%
Origin of Species
0%
Louis Sullivan
0%
Kindergarten
Q.19.
wrote The Octopus - saga of the stranglehold of the railroad and corrupt politician on California wheat rancher; its sequel, The Pit, dealt with the making and breaking of speculators on the Chicago wheat exchange
0%
Frank Norris
0%
Stephen Crane
0%
Modernists
0%
Mark Twain
Q.20.
grandson of John Quincy Adams and great grandson of John Adams; wrote History of the United States During the Administrations of Jefferson and Madison; defended his heritage; also wrote Monti-Stain-Michel and Chartres and a autobiography of his education and the account of his failures; for his novels, he made women his central characters; called a master of "psychological" ;The Bostonians was the first book about the rising feminist movement
0%
Ida B. Wells
0%
Henry H. Richardson
0%
Henry James
0%
William Dean Howells
Q.21.
held in 1893 in Chicago; honored 400th anniversary of Columbus's first voyage; revival of classical architecture in order to celebrate
0%
Cardinal Gibbons
0%
Land Grant Colleges
0%
William Randolph Hearst
0%
Colombian Exposition
Q.22.
from Massachusetts; journalist-reformer; published socialistic novel: Looking Backward in which the main character 'looks back' and sees that the government has become ideal in the year 2000 and big business became nationalized to serve public interest; clubs formed under his name and heavily influenced American reform movement at the end of the century
0%
Jane Addams
0%
Vaudeville
0%
Edward Bellamy
0%
Lillian Wald
Q.23.
a group that wanted prohibition
0%
Fundamentalists
0%
George Inness
0%
Anti-Saloon League
0%
Edwin L. Godkin
Q.24.
antiforeign organization; urged voting against Roman Catholic candidates for office and sponsored publication of lustful fantasies about runaway nuns
0%
Land Grant Colleges
0%
Political Bosses
0%
Departments Stores
0%
American Protective Association
Q.25.
teacher-training schools
0%
Anthony Cornstock
0%
Normal Schools
0%
Political Bosses
0%
Dime novels
Q.26.
English naturalists who wrote Origin of Species; thought higher forms of life evolved from lower forms through mutation and adaptation; came up with the theory of natural selection
0%
Theodore Dreiser
0%
Charles Darwin
0%
Ida B. Wells
0%
Settlement houses
Q.27.
journalist and teacher; inspired black women to start a nationwide antilynching crusade; helped launch black women's club movement - National Association of Colored Women
0%
Ida B. Wells
0%
Henry H. Richardson
0%
Frank Norris
0%
Bret Harte
Q.28.
attracted urban middle class-shoppers and provided working-class jobs (many for women); consumerism and showed class division; examples are Macy's and Marshall Field's
0%
John Singer Sargent
0%
Departments Stores
0%
American Protective Association
0%
Colombian Exposition
Q.29.
expanded on the Morrill Act; provided federal funds for the establishment of agricultural experiment stations with the land-grant colleges
0%
Walt Whitman
0%
Buffalo Bill Cody
0%
Hatch Act
0%
Kate Chopin
Q.30.
1883; brought European music to elite American audiences; "Diamond Horseshoe"
0%
Land Grant Colleges
0%
Metropolitan Opera House
0%
William Randolph Hearst
0%
Colombian Exposition
Q.31.
got a high degree of realism in his paintings (meaning portrait sitters got their flaws in pictures)
0%
Political Bosses
0%
Thomas Eakins
0%
Cardinal Gibbons
0%
Walking Cities
Q.32.
labor boss; met immigrants and secured jobs wherever there was a demand for industrial labor; could speak both Italian and English; often gave homes to newcomers
0%
Walking Cities
0%
Cardinal Gibbons
0%
Padrone
0%
William Randolph Hearst
Q.33.
slums; an area in which many people lived together in small quarters
0%
Anthony Cornstock
0%
Departments Stores
0%
Tenements
0%
Hull House
Q.34.
artist from Massachusetts who did much of his work in England; known for a portrait of his mother; dropped out of West Point after failing chemistry
0%
Winslow Horner
0%
James Whistler
0%
Ida B. Wells
0%
Walt Whitman
Q.35.
urban Catholic leader; devoted to American unity; popular with Roman Catholics and Protestants; used his liberal sympathy to help the American labor movement
0%
Jane Addams
0%
Carrie Chapman Catt
0%
Cardinal Gibbons
0%
Departments Stores
Q.36.
fought for welfare of women, children, blacks and consumers; moved to Henry Street Settlement ; served 30 years as a general secretary of the National Consumer League
0%
Women's Christian Temperance Union
0%
Florence Kelly
0%
Charles Darwin
0%
National Women Suffrage Association
Q.37.
invented basketball in 1888
0%
James Naismith
0%
Winslow Horner
0%
Joseph Pulitzer
0%
Modernists
Q.38.
belief that one should make themselves equally useful in order to combat racism; did not directly challenge white supremacy; believed that blacks should remain in black communities and become economically independent from whites in order to achieve political stature and civil rights
0%
Accommodationists
0%
Colombian Exposition
0%
Walking Cities
0%
Carrie Chapman Catt
Q.39.
white people; more northern Europeans
0%
Tuskegee Institute
0%
Kindergarten
0%
Colombian Exposition
0%
Anglo-Saxon
Q.40.
founded the Church of Christ; wrote a book called Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
0%
Morrill Act
0%
Mary Baker Eddy
0%
Anti-Saloon League
0%
Social Gospel
Q.41.
urban revivalist; once a shoe salesman; spoke to audiences about forgiveness
0%
Anthony Cornstock
0%
Kindergarten
0%
John Singer Sargent
0%
Dwight Lyman Moody
Q.42.
disagreed with Booker T. Washinton; earned a Ph. D. at Harvard (the first blackish person to do so); demanded complete equality for blacks, both socially and economically; helped found the NAACP; demanded that the talented tenth of the black community be given full as well as immediate access to the mainstream of American life; died as a self-exile in Africa
0%
Louis Sullivan
0%
Departments Stores
0%
Jane Addams
0%
W.E.B. Du Bois
Q.43.
born in Hungary and nearly blind; leader in sensationalism; Colored comic supplements featured the "Yellow Kid" (became yellow journalism)
0%
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
0%
Joseph Pulitzer
0%
Birds of Passage
0%
Ida B. Wells
Q.44.
had a college education; used her talents to teach and do volunteer work, Hull house (American settlement home); condemned war and poverty; won Nobel Peace Prize in 1931
0%
Jane Addams
0%
Walking Cities
0%
Lillian Wald
0%
Dime novels
Q.45.
skeptical about religion; an orator (And his name isn't mentioned...)
0%
William Randolph Hearst
0%
Tuskegee Institute
0%
American Protective Association
0%
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll
Q.46.
self taught; became America's leading landscapist
0%
Emily Dickinson
0%
Jack London
0%
George Inness
0%
George Washington Carver
Q.47.
gave assistance to immigrants by trading jobs and services for votes; provided jobs on city's payroll, found housing for new arrivals, gave needy gifts of foods and clothing, etc.
0%
John Singer Sargent
0%
Louis Sullivan
0%
Cardinal Gibbons
0%
Political Bosses
Q.48.
most of the land given from the Morrill Act became these types of schools; usually state universities
0%
Colombian Exposition
0%
Land Grant Colleges
0%
Dwight Lyman Moody
0%
Departments Stores
Q.49.
those who rejected Darwin's beliefs
0%
James Whistler
0%
Joseph Pulitzer
0%
Fundamentalists
0%
Jack London
Q.50.
those who worked in America for a number of years and after earning a decent amount of money, they would travel back to their home country
0%
Bret Harte
0%
Birds of Passage
0%
George Washington Carver
0%
Emily Dickinson
Q.51.
most popular of the Wild-West shows; the troupe included Indians, live buffalo, and marksmen
0%
Morrill Act
0%
Paul Laurence Dunbar
0%
Mary Baker Eddy
0%
Buffalo Bill Cody
Q.52.
crusader against immoral; defender of sexual purity; drove 15 people to suicide
0%
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll
0%
Dwight Lyman Moody
0%
Tenements
0%
Anthony Cornstock
Q.53.
expelled from Harvard for a crude prank; had father's California mine millions and began a power chain of newspaper (San Francisco Examiner); close competitor of Pulitzer;
0%
Departments Stores
0%
Metropolitan Opera House
0%
Accommodationists
0%
William Randolph Hearst
Q.54.
poet; poetry wasn't published when she was alive (only two were and those were without her consent); wrote over a thousand short lyrics on scarps of paper
0%
James Whistler
0%
Henry H. Richardson
0%
Emily Dickinson
0%
Joseph Pulitzer
Q.55.
journalist-author; didn't have much formal school but had much idealism and human kindness; wrote Progress and Poverty; said that the pressure of growing population on a fixed suplly of land pushed up property values and gave unearned profits on owners of land; a one time, 100 % tax on those profits would get rid of unfair inequalities and stimulate economic growth
0%
Edward Bellamy
0%
Henry George
0%
Hull House
0%
Political Bosses
Q.56.
launched the Red Cross
0%
Cardinal Gibbons
0%
Land Grant Colleges
0%
Clara Barton
0%
Dime novels
Q.57.
born to an Irish mother and French father; adopted American; most gifted American sculptor one of his most moving works is the Robert Gould Shaw memorial
0%
Settlement houses
0%
Bret Harte
0%
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
0%
Ida B. Wells
Q.58.
part of the Buffalo Bill Cody show; an extremely good shooter
0%
Annie Oakley
0%
Clara Barton
0%
Lillian Wald
0%
Anglo-Saxon
Q.59.
14th son of a Methodist minister; wrote about underside of urban, industrial life America (Maggie: A Girl of the Streets - story of a poor prostitute who ended up committing suicide [Didn't find a publisher for this story and was published privately]; The Red Badge of Courage - Civil War Recruit under fire); died of tuberculosis
0%
William Dean Howells
0%
Mark Twain
0%
Stephen Crane
0%
Emily Dickinson
Q.60.
black writer; fiction writer; wrote short stories in Atlantic Monthly and The Conjure Women; used black dialect and folklore to capture richness of southern black culture
0%
Charles W. Chestnut
0%
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
0%
Emily Dickinson
0%
James Whistler
Q.61.
"social novelist"; from Indiana; wrote Sister Carrie (poor working girl in Chicago and New York, becomes mistress, elopes with someone else, makes an acting career)
0%
Charles W. Chestnut
0%
Theodore Dreiser
0%
Carrie Nation
0%
Ida B. Wells
Q.62.
where the church take on social issues; science of society and that socialism would be the logical outcome of Christianity
0%
Anti-Saloon League
0%
Social Gospel
0%
Birds of Passage
0%
Edwin L. Godkin
Q.63.
run by Jane Addams; American settlement home; located in a poor area but gave help to the poor in English; child-care, adjustment to big-city life, cultural activities
0%
Padrone
0%
Henry George
0%
Hull House
0%
Tenements
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