• Roman Catholic and Jewish faiths gain enormous strength from New Immigration. Cardinal Gibbons was immensely popular with both Roman Catholics and Protestants
• Salvation Army came to America from England in 1879; did much practical good
• The Church of Christ, founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879, preached that the true practice of Christianity heals sickness; she establishes her views in the book “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures”.
• Young Men’s and Women’s Christian Associations combined physical education with religious instruction; appeared in every major American city by the end of the 1800s.
• Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species caused problems for the church; proposed that humans had evolved from lower forms of
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• Teacher-training schools, then “normal schools,’’ experienced expansion after the Civil War. Kindergartens also began to gain strong backing.
• The Chautauqua movement sought to educate adults; launched in 1874; achieved success through public lectures, featuring well-known speakers, including Mark Twain
• South behind other regions in public education, and African-Americans suffered most severely. The supporter of black education was Booker T. Washington.
• Washington’s self-help approach to solving national racial problems called “accommodationist” bc it stopped short of challenging white supremacy; believed economic independence would lead to greater rights for blacks
• George Washington Carver boosted southern economy by discovering new uses for the peanut, sweet potato, and soybean.
• Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois earned a Ph.D. at Harvard, the first of his race to do so; demanded complete equality for blacks; helped to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1910.
• Increasingly, a college education seemed intertwined with success. Women’s colleges and universities open to both genders were thriving, notably in the
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Wells motivated black women to support nationwide anti-lynching campaign; launch black women’s club movement, climaxed in National Association of Colored Women in 1896
• The National Prohibition party, organized in 1869, polled a few of votes in some presidential elections
• The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union organized in 1874; Frances E. Willard was the leader
• Carrie A. Nation brought disrespect to prohibition movement bc of her violent campaign; The Anti-Saloon League formed in 1893 o Triumph in 1919, when the 18th Amendment added to the Constitution
• The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1866; The American Red Cross was in 1881 (Clara Barton)
• James Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, George Inness (America’s leading landscapist), Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer were all great American artists.
• Augustus Saint-Gaudens was a gifted sculptor; built the Robert Gould Shaw memorial
• Music gains popularity. The Metropolitan Opera House of New York established in 1883. o Black folk traditions like spirituals and “ragged music” evolve into the blues, ragtime, and jazz.
• The phonograph, invented by Edison, grew rapidly in this time
During the American Gilded Age, W.E.B Du Bois, a civil rights activist, historian, and sociologist, was a significant figure in U.S history. He strongly advocated for the rights of blacks in post-civil war America primarily focusing on the importance of education, political rights, and social equality for African Americans. His accomplishments include becoming the first black to get a PhD at Harvard and co-founding the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909. Although there were many ground breaking progress for blacks, Du Bois heavily expressed his concern for black representation in the political system. In his 1903 book, The Souls of Black Folks, Du Bois articulated the importance of representation for blacks stating,
On September 18, 1895, an African-American spokesman and leader Booker T. Washington spoke in the front of thousands of whites at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta. His famous “Atlanta Compromise” was one of the most influential speeches in American. regardless Washington soothed his listeners’ concerns about the what they said “uppity” blacks. Mr. Washington was a very well-known black educator. Even though he was born into slavery he strongly felt and believed that racism would in fact end once the blacks put effort into labor skills and proved themselves to society. He pressured industrial education for African-Americans so that they would gain respect from the whites. Washington often was good for ignoring discrimination because it didn’t phase him. But he was so nervous
In 1917 at the start of World War 1, many supported the Anti- saloon league; many brewers had been German immigrants so people claimed that by drinking it would make them traitors. The lack of support for prohibition started to decrease as the violent crimes increased throughout the USA more and more Americans turned against prohibition, the Anti-Saloon League and the Women's Society set up campaigns to end prohibition in the same way they had originally campaigned for it to be introduced. The Anti-Saloon League had a lot of support. The Great Depression helped the case for change.
W.E.B. Du Bois was a man with impressive accomplishments and achievements. He was the first ever African American to earn a PhD from Harvard University and he
Between 1820 and 1860, Americans constructed 40,000 new churches compared to the 10,000 they constructed in the 40 years before 1820. At the end of the revival period, ”one-third of all Americans attended church regularly.”(P.400) Many of the early revival preachers embraced Christian evangelicalism, the established groups sought to take advantage of the popular enthusiasm to build their particular denominations. Methodists and the Baptists established themselves as leading American denominations as a result of the Second Great Awakening. The two faiths had a mutual sense of affinity with regard to doctrine, but the Baptists created a radically decentralized hierarchy that empowered local ministers and individual churches.
Between 1900 and 1913 more Americans began to drink more and more alcohol with the production of beer jumping from 1.2 million to 2 billion gallons; three times more alcohol than the average American drinks now.1 Prohibition was a movement sparked by women since women thought they were the ones who suffered the most from the cause of alcohol and women though that alcohol was a threat to a happy family. Women wanted to pass prohibition because many men would go to saloons and go home and be abusive towards their wives and children. Women and other groups eventually got 46 of the 48 states to ratify the 18th amendment on January 16, 1919.2 The 18th amendment on article one says, "...the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited."3 The first article on the 18th amendment is saying that the sale, making, or even bringing liquor into the United States or any of the United States' territory will now be illegal. Prohibition began to show its weakness right away when the United Sates government did not show much support. After the first year of prohibition the American people started to show less support and even led to organized crime. In 1933, the United States Constitution was amended to repeal the 18th amendment in the form of the 21st amendment.4 Even
As i told the prohibition party had their greatest success in 1919, where they succeeded in passing the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution. This Amendment actually outlawed production, sale, transportation, import and export of alcohol. It was only legal when used for religious purposes. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
1.All of the following statements are true about Herbert Hoover’s responses to the Great Depression EXCEPT:
Booker T. Washington’s philosophy of economic power through industrial education better suited the future of Black America because it addressed the masses at the time. Washington argued in his Atlanta Compromise Speech that the only way to advance the black community was to allow them to study industrial education and work a trade in order to make capital that would in turn allow them to buy themselves out of the situations they were put
The Prohibition Era was a period of time when the entire nation was expected to be alcohol-free, or “dry”. In January 1919, prohibitionists achieved the ratification of the eighteenth amendment to the constitution, “forbidding the manufacture, transportation, and sale of intoxicating liquors.” The activists in the Temperance Movement had lobbied and pushed for this ratification for decades. Temperance activists consisted of women, church members, and employers. The main concern was centered around the idea that liquor made alcoholics and irresponsible people. The widespread support for the liquor ban was reflected in its approval by more
The concept of prohibition was nothing new in 1919; it was part of the social reform movement that had been growing for nearly a decade, known as the temperance movement. It was similar to the movements of the middle of the 19th century, but differed from the ecclesiastical “Great Awakenings” that had surged periodically through the American colonies since their settling. Although it diverged in scope from these other movements they still shared a similar connection in goal, that of a “Dry” nation. By 1857, thirteen states had laws prohibiting the selling of alcohol within their borders. Following the Civil War, the desire for reform had lost its luster and a general yearning for normalcy gripped the nation. Thus the drive for alcohol prohibition lost most if not all its steam. However, near the turn of the century, it was once again gaining momentum. The growing middle class of the early 20th century introduced the Republic to a new breed of ideals in the form of the Progressive Movement. The Progressives viewed the power of the states as their platform to accomplish their goals. With strong supporters such as future U.S. President Woodrow Wilson they hoped to meet little or no resistance to their plans for the future and they utilized the law to the
How did judicial review become an important part of the American court system? (2 points)
American expansionism in the late 19th century and early 20th century was, to a large extent, a continuation of past United States expansionism, while also departing with previous expansionism in some aspects. During the period of time between the late 19th century and early 20th century, America was going through significant changes. After a revolution in Cuba against the Spanish, as well as the Americans starting the Spanish-American War, the Americans received several territorial concessions from their defeated opponent. Thus, America started on the path to imperialism, gaining several more territories in a short amount of time. Such an expansion in the late 19th century and early 20th century was mostly a continuation of past
Prohibition had become an issue long before its eventual induction as the 18th amendment in 1920. Organizations came about for the sole purpose of an alcohol free America. In 1833, an estimated one million Americans belonged to some type of temperance association (Behr 12). Many believed the absence of alcohol would help the poor as well as big business. Lower class people would put more money into savings accounts and productivity would increase among workers (Hanson 27). More importantly the “noble experiment”—was undertaken to reduce crime and corruption, solve social problems, and improve the health and hygiene in America” (Thorton 1).
Spring of 1540 (pg 6): A Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto went to the temples of Cofachiqui and met the lady of Cofachiqui, where he held a storehouse of weapons and chest upon. After loading their horses with corn and pearls, they continue on their way.